🇨🇦 canadian writer, game master, gremlin (they/them)
🏳️🌈 co-founder @othersidespec.bsky.social
🖋 fantasy, romance, horror
📖 works at Nightmare, Heartlines, PseudoPod, Small Wonders and more
website: https://ash-vale.ca/
ash vale
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and we mean HORROR, folks! if you're a trans author, send us your fucked up (complimentary) shit when we open June 22!!
8c/word or 50$ per poem!
full guidelines here:
hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
I have a newsletter! It says things! This one in particular says things about my two new poems out at Nightmare Magazine and Small Wonders (both linked)
I also have recs for some beautiful pieces by @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social and @clairejiawen.bsky.social !
buckle up, it's Sad Boi Spring! this poem came to me very quickly last year as a thought about what grounding feels like when you're up in the clouds, and what happens when that isn't enough 💜
so pleased it found a home with Small Wonders!!
buckle up, it's Sad Boi Spring! this poem came to me very quickly last year as a thought about what grounding feels like when you're up in the clouds, and what happens when that isn't enough 💜
so pleased it found a home with Small Wonders!!
"we are all made of star-stuff", by ash vale, moves from the physical reality of that phrase to the emotional truth that we don't necessarily feel that way, and the separation that can bring.
This. The closet was nearly my casket.
We express ourselves with writing, and many of us don't choose to write about queerness; it comes out in the work. To strangle that is to strangle the art, and then what is the fucking point? To lube up bookshelves with frictionless tripe? To hell with that.
a lace hanky for pride 🙂↕️
Vibrant, intense, gorgeous, desperate. You're doing yourself a disservice by not reading this one right now!
To our dismay, the artist and author Marjane Satrapi has passed away.
As she wrote, ordinary Americans and Iranians have more in common with each other than we do with either of our governments, which have far too much in common with each other.
We honor her memory and oppose the war.
it's here - my poem is now free to read in Nightmare (!!!) a dream come true for me, truly.
consumed is a little bit of trans cannibalism, gender dysphoria, and bad feelings wrapped up in one small package.
"I dwell on the consequences:
what if after she eats the bad,
there is nothing left?"
my lover has peculiar tastes; her cravings are unnatural. she apologises for her appetite
www.nightmare-magazine.com
"we are all made of star-stuff", by ash vale, moves from the physical reality of that phrase to the emotional truth that we don't necessarily feel that way, and the separation that can bring.
"we are all made of star-stuff", by ash vale, moves from the physical reality of that phrase to the emotional truth that we don't necessarily feel that way, and the separation that can bring.
silas denver 🍎
Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer
Portals #1 drops in October and will open to submissions on June 22nd! It will be co-edited by the incredible Angel Leal and Jess Cho, who are looking for horror fiction/poetry by trans authors. All proceeds from sales of this installment will go to Trans Lifeline. 🏳️⚧️ (3/8)
ash vale
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈
it's here - my poem is now free to read in Nightmare (!!!) a dream come true for me, truly.
consumed is a little bit of trans cannibalism, gender dysphoria, and bad feelings wrapped up in one small package.
"I dwell on the consequences:
what if after she eats the bad,
there is nothing left?"
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective
"Authors and editors also described self-censoring—some have stopped writing or editing queer books in anticipation of them being challenged."
I don't even know how to do this. I censored myself my whole life. I cannot go back in a closet. That will be a violence done to myself.
someone dead said that once and you told me / with matching crescent moons on our / wrists that you felt not celestial
