khōréō publishes what's not just evocative and genre expanding but showcases the rich breadth of diasporic spec fic--stories we're all better for being out in the world. And 🫶🏾 to the crew who commits and cares about how it gets done.
Thanks to Trish Hopkinson for this wonderful interview about our open reading period for poetry manuscripts! https://trishhopkinson.com/2026/06/03/no-fee-full-length-poetry-book-call-editor-interview-sundress-no-fee-deadline-june-14-2026/
I’m excited to share this interview with Erin Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of Sundress Publications—a press I’ve long admired for its commitment to bold, thoughtful, and necessary work, run …
Our Kickstarter is live! Help support another year of speculative fiction by immigrant & diaspora writers over at @Kickstarter. 🧡
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Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), June 11, 2026:
What lessons have you learned about managing your spoons (mental and/or physical energy) while developing a written work?
(Please quote-post and add #SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)
this resonates with our why for including audio recordings of poems (read by author or us, so long as they are on board)--also, ya know, providing another path for erybodymind to experience 🫶🏾
It's surreal seeing my poem "Light of My Life" (originally published in @astrolabe.ooo) featured on the Toronto subway, truly a dream come true!
Thank you to Poems in Passage for bringing poetry to the TTC, and thank you to Astrolabe for believing in my work.
Thank you @smallwondersmag.com for being the perfect home for this! "Your Cause and Your Effect" is a tribute to the teachers who had an impact on my life.
Actually I think I'll dig up contact info for one of my elementary school teachers and send him a thank-you today.
khōréō magazine
This generative workshop invites participants to world-build their own utopia while learning about the tools needed for world-building and using poetry as the engine and examples to form this world. ko-fi.com/s/220055ef8d
Big news 🎊 My chapbook BLACK BOX FLIGHT RECORDER is now available for pre-order after winning the 2025 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest out of 1,000+ submissions. 🏆
Interested in experimental poetry, Afrofuturism?
Pre-order here and share the link with your network: buttonpoetry.com/product/blac...
Spec Colorways In Verse
Spoonie Authors Network
More information about our workshop offerings can be found at https://fifthwheelpress.com/workshops
ko-fi.com
As I'm in the middle of surviving yet another month, your support via Patreon or Ko-Fi would be a great boon at the moment! And while it's much slower, I also appreciate when you buy (and hopefully play and enjoy) my RPGs!
Danez Smith in their Poet of The Week interview with us 💙
Aishatu Ado
Lysz Flo aka 🇭🇹Bat Yo Ministries🇭🇹
The Cookout Anthology was thrilled to join the Just Keep Writing Podcast crew and tell them about our charmed journey so far as writers and co-editors, as well as some hints about some possible future plans...
Come hear about what we at @tco-anthology.bsky.social have in store for you! 🍲
Ever have a teacher who made SUCH a positive difference in your life? If you can, drop them a line with today's poem by Ian Li, "Your Cause and Your Effect"
Brandon O’Brien
This week, the crew chats with Erin Brown, Tonya R. Moore, and Emmalia Harrington about editing a Black Anthology called: The Cook Out.
Links mentioned during the show:
Tonya R. Moore
Emmalia Harringt...
A reminder that you can support me & my work & read some cool stuff I'm working on by joining my Patreon (patreon.com/therisingtit...), or you can buy THE GOD OF SPITE AND VIOLENCE over on Itch (therisingtithes.itch.io), or (more quickly) on Ko-Fi!
