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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social “We do this [write] because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning in it” - Sandra Cisneros
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Essay Press @essaypress.bsky.social Essay Press is dedicated to publishing artful, innovative, and culturally relevant prose. Distributed by Asterism Books.
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com
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Posit Journal @positjournal.bsky.social An online journal of innovative contemporary poetry, prose, & visual art. positjournal.com
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Nancy Nguyen @nancynguyen.bsky.social Speculative/slipstream writer. PhD candidate and AOP Fellow at UW-Milwaukee. Work in Jellyfish Review, swamp pink, The Rumpus, The Georgia Review. At work on a collection about magic and women who occupy the margins. 
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The Evergreen Review @evergreenreview.bsky.social Join the underground generation. • A literary magazine pushing boundaries since 1957. Edited by Dale Peck, published by John Oakes. Now online, no paywall! Profile art by Alice Tippit. https://evergreenreview.com
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Black Sun Lit @blacksunlit.bsky.social Publisher of transgeneric poetry and ontological inquiry based in Brooklyn/Arkville, NY. Founded 2012. Edited by @jareddanielfagen.bsky.social.
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Julie Carr @juliecarr.bsky.social Books: Underscore; Mud, Blood, and Ghosts; Real Life: An Installation; 100 Notes on Violence; Someone Shot my Book. RAG. &others. Ac-job: Chair of WGST; teach poetry; CUB. juliecarrpoet.com; counterpathpress.org; aprilinstitute.org. 
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