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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 26d
it's our 6th birthday. come sparkle with us? ✨

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effervescent contributors Chaia Alford • Sadee Bee • Tarah Burrows • Zoe Carver • Eden Chicken • Sarah Chin • Tess Ezzy • Katherine Garrison • Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin • Elizabeth S. Gunn • Kath Healing • Jennifer Jantzen • Oliver Sedano Jones • Sawyer Katz • Sarah Klein • BEE LB • Aimee Lowenstern • Welton B. Marsland • Colby Meeks • Alexander Penney • • R L • powell • Anya Quesnel • Abigail Lilith Ravenheart • Kayla Renee • Lorraine Schein • Cade Smith • Elle J. Snyder • Joni K. Thomas • jp thorn • Erica Leslie Weidner • Rae White • Joely Williams • CB Wilson • Steven C. Wright
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hiiiiii manuscript subs are open until sunday 12/21

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December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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For our second year, I'm proud to present the TFR Reader's Choice Awards, the only literary awards where YOU can vote for your favorite transfeminine books of 2025 🩷

Voting is open right now! The voting period will last until December 26th, 2025 at 11:59 PM, so don't forget to cast your ballot.
Vote for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards!
Voting is open now for the 2025 TFR Reader’s Choice Awards! Vote by Dec. 26th.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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whoastanderson.bsky.social
so excited to join ranks with some real ones <3 <3 <3
fifthwheelpress.bsky.social fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social · 10d
welcome to our two newest wheels, absolute POWER HITTERS and fwp repeat contributors @whoastanderson.bsky.social and @eleanorball.bsky.social!
Eleanor Ball (she/her) is a librarian and assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa. She holds an MLIS from the University of Iowa, and she previously served as a Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress. She writes across literary and speculative genres, and her work often circles themes of grief, the body, religion, and queerness. Her work appears in Barnstorm, Psaltery & Lyre, Strange Horizons, Yalobusha Review, and elsewhere. Stephanie Anderson (she/they) is a library worker, grant writer, and union organizer in Baltimore. With writing and collage nominated for Best of the Net, she holds an MS in Professional Writing from Towson University and is the author of SOMEONE ELSE’S FEELINGS (Ghost City Press, 2025). More of their work has been published in Rejection Letters, Burial Magazine, BRUISER, Libre, Artists from Maryland, and others. Find her @whoastanderson everywhere that matters.
December 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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eleanorball.bsky.social
I could not be more excited and honored to begin working with fifth wheel press in a permanent capacity 💗
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welcome to our two newest wheels, absolute POWER HITTERS and fwp repeat contributors @whoastanderson.bsky.social and @eleanorball.bsky.social!
Eleanor Ball (she/her) is a librarian and assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa. She holds an MLIS from the University of Iowa, and she previously served as a Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress. She writes across literary and speculative genres, and her work often circles themes of grief, the body, religion, and queerness. Her work appears in Barnstorm, Psaltery & Lyre, Strange Horizons, Yalobusha Review, and elsewhere. Stephanie Anderson (she/they) is a library worker, grant writer, and union organizer in Baltimore. With writing and collage nominated for Best of the Net, she holds an MS in Professional Writing from Towson University and is the author of SOMEONE ELSE’S FEELINGS (Ghost City Press, 2025). More of their work has been published in Rejection Letters, Burial Magazine, BRUISER, Libre, Artists from Maryland, and others. Find her @whoastanderson everywhere that matters.
December 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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welcome to our two newest wheels, absolute POWER HITTERS and fwp repeat contributors @whoastanderson.bsky.social and @eleanorball.bsky.social!
Eleanor Ball (she/her) is a librarian and assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa. She holds an MLIS from the University of Iowa, and she previously served as a Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress. She writes across literary and speculative genres, and her work often circles themes of grief, the body, religion, and queerness. Her work appears in Barnstorm, Psaltery & Lyre, Strange Horizons, Yalobusha Review, and elsewhere. Stephanie Anderson (she/they) is a library worker, grant writer, and union organizer in Baltimore. With writing and collage nominated for Best of the Net, she holds an MS in Professional Writing from Towson University and is the author of SOMEONE ELSE’S FEELINGS (Ghost City Press, 2025). More of their work has been published in Rejection Letters, Burial Magazine, BRUISER, Libre, Artists from Maryland, and others. Find her @whoastanderson everywhere that matters.
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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aporianautics.bsky.social
the glorious-unhinged-gay-banger-per-dollar ratio on this one is very high

for instance, this Jenna Jaco: fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend...

and this Elizabeth R McClellan: fifthwheelpress.com/anth7backend...

(also I have two pieces in it!)
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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blog! subs! still! open! (they are themed tho!)

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December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Supporting poetry in print is so crucial, and I cannot recommend fifth wheel press enough for their support of the queer writing community.

There are short reviews of several of the works in this on my page for the curious. tl;dr - absolutely worth it.

Bonus: I'm featured in it too. :3
December 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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want to start off december right? read Sal Kang's DADDY ISSUES (with thanks to Fox Auslander for their words).

-aera
against a pink background with hearts reads "a love letter to every manic pixie who worries their desires may have blossomed steeped in blight", a quote by Fox Auslander in praise of DADDY ISSUES.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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katherinegarrison.bsky.social
Very excited to have this coming out in print! 🎉😁
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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le-transexual.bsky.social
another queer and trans literary landmark. get yourself a copy of this killer print anthology, @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social is kind of a big deal
December 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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beestung is doing such incredible and important things for queer writers and you bet @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is about to put their money where their mouth is after hitting send
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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if you've enjoyed reading beestung for free, please keep doing that, but also please consider giving us maybe $5-$640. 🐝
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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if you're on the fence: the sale of these anthologies does a lot. this year, profits from 1 full-price anth sale are able to pay 3 contributors to next year's publications!
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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queer anthology drop! 🌈 📚
November 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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also hey, we just dropped a big ol' book for preorder

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fwp 2025: an anthology of queer writing
Featuring work originally published in brainrot and effervescent. Contributors: Rosie Accola, Rayne Alarcio, Chaia Alford, Stephanie Anderson, sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Briana Armson, Gwen Aube, Emm...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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it's small business saturday. we're not running a giant sale because frankly, we can't afford to. buy small press books today and every day.

fifthwheelpress.shop for a good start
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November 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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we 💙 this book
mimulus.bsky.social Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social · 25d
Time Travel Is Easy is officially out in the world! Dinosaurs and Deep Time are thematic links to queer embodiment, childhood trauma, and life in the late Anthropocene. Cover art by the amazing Helen Whistberry. (Non-Amazon options coming very soon!) www.amazon.com/dp/B0G344X8L7
Cover art for my book Time Travel Is Easy. It depicts the skeleton of an Archaeopteryx against an abstract tree design, with a dragonfly and feathers around it.
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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jennajaco.bsky.social
i feel @kithbooks.bsky.social in this chili's tonight
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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nocturnalxlight.bsky.social
queer anthology alert! 🌈📚
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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pssssssssst our 2025 print anth is available for preorder ahead of its 12/17 release 👀

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fwp 2025: an anthology of queer writing
Featuring work by Rosie Accola, Rayne Alarcio, Chaia Alford, Stephanie Anderson, sterling-elizabeth arcadia, Briana Armson, Gwen Aube, Emma L. Baker, Sadee Bee, Veronica Bennett, KM Bezner, tommy wyat...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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babysbbreath.bsky.social
Still mostly not using this app, but have these two poems of mine that were published by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social last week!
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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cavar.bsky.social
hello all semi/nonhuman entities & accomplices, i'm editing a @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social blog series on multispecies / alterhuman writing, and submissions are open now through Dec 15!!!

You should submit something! Especially if you're unpublished! Don't self-reject!

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submission guidelines: Alterhuman/Multispecies Some people aren’t human. Actually, mostly people aren’t: cats, sharks, trees, rocks, and everyone in between each hold histories and vital relationships that are too often sidelined in favor of anthropocentric narratives. For this call, I want to see stories in which the idea(l) of human individualism is narratively and poetically challenged. Stretch and break the bounds of who is typically afforded a voice; who matters; who counts as an ally in the struggle for collective liberation; and who determines what it means to be a person at all. In addition to more conventionally multispecies/nonhuman narratives, I’m particularly interested in works by/featuring alterhuman characters and themes, and am looking for the complex, imaginative, thoughtful over the polemic/educational. Regular fwp length guidelines apply (up to 1500 words/no more than 3 pages of poetry/hybrid pieces).
November 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM