beestung

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a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of sundress publications | eic sarahclark.bsky.social http://www.beestungmag.com https://beestungmag.com/newsletter

cherubs on lambs with the text the wigleaf top 50 very short fictions
THE PLEASURE ISSUE: REAL + IMAGINARY SUBMISSION CLOSE: (BIPOC ONLY) 06/20/2026 FLASH FICTION + POETRY + CREATIVE NON-FICTION + ART PAY - $20.00 GUEST EDITED BY CHRISTIAN M. IVEY
Black and white mouth with red and orange background. Text in the mouth reads beestung. Text in a circle reads: THE PLEASURE ISSUE Real + MAGINARY SUBMISSION WINDOW: 05/15 - 06/13 (BIPOC - 06/20) FLASH FICTION ART PAY - $20.00 GUEST EDITED BY CHRISTIAN M. IVEY
Complicating Queer folks' relationship to white, cis hetero, patriarchal sexual hegemony analysis for the possibility of a radical act, merely having sex or writing about sex, but to add clarity of sex and sexuality that is forbidden because Law and moral ethic of civil society. Pornography started as text and then adapted to images and then video, as it is commonly associated with today, and has shaped how we determine what kind of sexualities are acceptable and not. With these interrogations of the mundane, this issue will play a part in a long line of Queer folks' expression and understanding of self-determined states within civil society's libidinal economies. The works would range from erotica to erotica literature, with bonus points for a strong speculative element.
Anatomical image of a person's body with the following text: Flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art. Pay: $20. Guest edited by Christian M Ivey. The Pleasure Issue, Real + Imaginary. Submission window: 05/15 - 06/13 (BIPOC: 05/15 - 6/20).
Floral background in purples and oranges. Text reads beestung #27. What remains but the upload? The viral response? Naked, Posthuman adjusts the lighting, assumes a provocative pose, filters personhood into pornography. A predictable shift between states. A biological response to modernity. By Esme Kaplan-Kinsey.
Anatomical image of a person's body with the following text: Flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art. Pay: $20. Guest edited by Christian M Ivey. The Pleasure Issue, Real + Imaginary. Submission window: 05/15 - 06/13 (BIPOC: 05/15 - 6/20).
Thick semi abstract digital brushstrokes that connote oil and oil pipelines with Cherokee language and English text that reads: "drained life through mountains only to percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name"
Person's body in yellow curvy lines with the words beestung flash fiction workshop
Thick semi abstract digital brushstrokes that connote oil and oil pipelines with Cherokee language and English text that reads: "drained life through mountains only to percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name"
Collage of an angel wearing combat boots and fishnets with a machete done in a biblical style
Outline of a person's back in yellow on black with the text beestung and Poetry Workshop
Thick semi abstract digital brushstrokes that connote oil and oil pipelines with Cherokee language and English text that reads: "drained life through mountains only to percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name"
Outline of a person in yellow with text that reads "beestung" and "poetry workshop."
Thick semi abstract digital brushstrokes that connote oil and oil pipelines with Cherokee language and English text that reads: "drained life through mountains only to percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name"
Two bees on a pink flower
Thick semi abstract digital brushstrokes that connote oil and oil pipelines with Cherokee language and English text that reads: "drained life through mountains only to percolate gold through uranium in anyone's name"
Pink flower collage and honey yellow background. Text reads: beestung issue #26. "Yet, I am not dead. I am still here. And my organs still demand the most political of sensations. A writer wrote that writing is like inviting someone in between your spread legs. Here are my legs, spread wide." —Claire Star Finch translated by Sam Nartus-Fois
TV static over a human body showing the circulatory system and other juicy innards
Pink background with yellow honey dripping down
Yellow honey drips on a pink backdrop
Floral and honey yellow background. Text that reads beestung issue #25. "They made me and dissected me and sold me for ¥68 a ticket to college girls who all come with best friends and cups of boba tea." —Yufan Lu
beestung's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees em roth nat raum Loren Maria Guay Mac Wilder sterling-elizabeth arcadia
Floral and yellow background with the information in the post
One Poem by February Spikener the (dead)name speaks What my girl will never see is her mother digging in the night, screaming like a horse about to be shot as she unearths my tomb. Only I am witness to my own desecration: her mother holding herself over my grave, all my ashes dried jagged in her open mouth.
One Poem by MICHAEL CHANG 出卖 SELL OUT i don’t wanna go back to a time where i cared abt u less slicing the roast thick like my father the roast is my father fashioning sadness into a dismal suit
Kentucky Mentioned meme but Kentucky has been changed to beestung
a hole
Yellow background with flowers. Text that reads beestung 2026 Pushcart Prize Nominees: C.M. Green Christian M. Ivey Em Roth Jay Délise Kelsey L. Smoot Loren Maria Guay
Flower background with honey yellow. Text that reads "beestung issue #24. i mentioned them in a poem / i compared them to cat shit -- / something i've never put in my mouth, / never let inside of me. by sterling-elizabeth arcadia."
beestung 2026 best of the Net fiction: Kat Joplin Kit McGuire And CNF by: Krys Malcolm Belc Lizz Mangan beestungmag.com
beestung, poetry, 2026 best of the Net Ally Ang arushi (aera) rege Jazz Bell t.r. San Mandy Shunnarah Amari Amai beestungmag.com
Blue paper linocut with black ink reading "Care For Me"
Honey yellow and floral background with the text: But the world outside kept calling, and it was a fantastic and ridiculous place. People are strange and wonderful. There are days when I think, “God, I’m so glad I chose to stay. I wish you had too.” —Kat Joplin
A detailed collage with the cut out letters spelling out "Why grow old together when we can stay young forever"
Pink background with honey dripping down
digital painting of clouds in the colors of the trans flag
Pink background dripping with honey
A detailed collage with the cut out letters spelling out "Why grow old together when we can stay young forever"
GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy. Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST. Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.
GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy. Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST. Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.
GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy. Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST. Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.
A detailed collage with the cut out letters spelling out "Why grow old together when we can stay young forever"
Purple flower background with yellow text field. Text reads: beestung issue #22. “How you let them make you into a monster, or a fantasy, or salvation like you weren’t an offering. Like you weren’t conjured from the people in every corner of the planet.” —Kelsey L. Smoot
A yellow background with white fill-in-the-blank fields, reading: "From a slimy age, I seldom knew I had been slogged in the polyamorous body. I always preferred to play with Rubik's cubes and Slip 'N Slides instead of fidget spinners. Grown-ups always called me..."
GAY-SCAPE FROM LA! A virtual reading between beestung and just femme & dandy. Tuesday March 25th from 6:30pm to 7:45pm EST. Featuring n.l. rivera, iris nguyen, Erika Gill, Young Fenimore Lee, Jennifer Wang, Tylyn Johnson, Alex Carrigan, j.j. rowan, felix salmoran, and emcee Kirin Khan.
A photo of KB Brookins and a photo of some honey
A photo of KB on the left, a Black non-binary person with long hair and a yellow shirt, smiling. On the right, a photo of bubbly honey.
“Not queer like a rainbow slapped onto a Wells Fargo debit card, gay as in let’s hurl a Molotov cocktail thru the window of the bank at nightfall and kiss while we watch the glass shatter like a supernova.” —Ally Ang beestung #21, beestung logo. Flower and yellow background.
A photo of KB on the left, a Black non-binary person with long hair and a yellow shirt, smiling. On the right, a photo of bubbly honey.
Photo of KB on the left, honey on the right
Flower background with honey yellow foreground. Text reads: beestung issue #20. we built a new language from dial-tones, we held each other to our ears and laughed and laughed. By iris nguyen.
A four panel comic of stylized hands with black sleeves tearing up cards into shreds
a hole
Orange tulip background, honey yellow foreground. Text: "EVERY DAY MORE OF THE PEOPLE I LOVE TELL ME THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO KEEP STAYING ALIVE. I TELL THEM THAT IT IS POSSIBLE." by Nora Hikari.