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mosh pit daria
@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
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poet laureate of the void • many books in many places • proud dad of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social • mica/ubalt alum • they

📍unceded piscataway + susquehannock land (baltimore)

visit me online @ natraum.com/links
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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · Jan 24
as mainstream social media seemingly disintegrates more by the day, friendly reminder that following my substack is by far the best way to stay updated on my practice

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leemandelo.bsky.social
I think straight and cis people really have no idea what things are like out there for the rest of us. I’ve received minimum one paper Like That per year since I started teaching, if not one or more per semester, all of which contained varying degrees of blunt hate speech directed *at me* lmao
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
7 slots left! secure yours now!
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 1d
friendly reminder: i have 8 more poetry chapbook consult slots open still! please hit me up; i'm trying to pay for as much of a really expensive prescription as i can while still out of work/insurance.
thumbs up geralt says: "toss a coin to your witcher? $50 poetry chapbook consults. up to 4 pages. email nat@natraum.com."
December 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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querenciapress.bsky.social
Our 2025 Autumn anthology is out now! This volume features 56 contributors across all genres. As always these are unthemed & touch on some triggering subjects so do read with care. Big thanks to @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social for guest editing, and everything always ✨ link in bio
November 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
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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le-transexual.bsky.social
this is such a fucking steal. working with nat is a treat, so don’t miss your chance to do so on the cheap!
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 1d
friendly reminder: i have 8 more poetry chapbook consult slots open still! please hit me up; i'm trying to pay for as much of a really expensive prescription as i can while still out of work/insurance.
thumbs up geralt says: "toss a coin to your witcher? $50 poetry chapbook consults. up to 4 pages. email nat@natraum.com."
November 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
trying to post here more, so bringing this thread here: navigate my witcher 3 playthrough using only quest titles
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
friendly reminder: i have 8 more poetry chapbook consult slots open still! please hit me up; i'm trying to pay for as much of a really expensive prescription as i can while still out of work/insurance.
thumbs up geralt says: "toss a coin to your witcher? $50 poetry chapbook consults. up to 4 pages. email nat@natraum.com."
November 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
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
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
idk if i ever posted it here, but i have a new (free!) micro up with whittle micro-press

whittlemicropress.com/publications...
april, buttersoft - nat raum — Whittle Micro-Press
april, buttersoft by nat raum Published November 2025 PDF Micro-chapbook With cool, precise syntax across ten little self-discoveries, raum hands the reader a mangy bouquet, but it’s actually all on...
whittlemicropress.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
that's my CHILD
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
pssssssssst our 2025 print anth is available for preorder ahead of its 12/17 release 👀

fifthwheelpress.shop/products/fwp...
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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gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
wondering which of my books would make great gifts? trick question: all of them do

natraum.substack.com/p/holiday-gi...
holiday gift guide 2025
gifts, but make them all my books
natraum.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
wondering which of my books would make great gifts? trick question: all of them do

natraum.substack.com/p/holiday-gi...
holiday gift guide 2025
gifts, but make them all my books
natraum.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
tl;dr i am offering up to 9 people a very cut-rate manuscript consult to pay for vital prescription drugs
re: yes, i know i can’t catch a break through an error on the state's part that i am currently in the process of appealing (ugh), i am potentially ineligible for health insurance for the rest of the year. if it sounds like i'm panicked, you're right; i take a medication that i very badly need to survive and it's about $450 with goodrx ($1400 without). big pharma woes aside, i need more meds soon and have no way of paying for them. here's where you (maybe???) come in. you have a poetry chapbook manuscript. you want feedback on it. i will do that for the low price of $50 per manuscript for up to 9 people to offset the cost of this prescription. poetry (and prose poetry) only. up to 40 pages, hard cap. please EMAIL me to secure your spot (no dms).
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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kithbooks.bsky.social
"If apathy and despair are getting the better of you in these times with gasoline is the fuel you need to rebirth your phoenix."
- Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus

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kithbooks.com/shop/p/withgasoline
the cover of nat raum's with gasoline overlaps the corner of an old paper library book slip. on the cover is a pink and black Molotov cocktail on a background of blue the text on the book slip reads: If apathy and despair are getting the better of you in these times with gasoline is the fuel you need to rebirth your phoenix. Sarah Klein, author of Mast Cell Mathematics: A Chronic Illness Calculus
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 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!

fifthwheelpress.com/blogsubs
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
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
new newsletter?

natraum.substack.com/p/november-25
november '25
news i’m very excited about the work i have coming out over the next few months—some of it is very personal to me, and all of it feels like some of the best, sharpest writing i’ve ever done.
natraum.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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fifthwheelpress.bsky.social
it's our 6th birthday. come sparkle with us? ✨

fifthwheelpress.com/effervescent
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
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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thirtywestph.com
Ditto. Adding @bullshitlit.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @maudlinhouse.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @whitestagpub.bsky.social
stanchion.bsky.social Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 12d
Small press books make great gifts. Pass it on!

Check out beautifully written & well designed books from @thirtywestph.com, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social, @malarkeybooks.bsky.social, @sundresspub.bsky.social & Stanchion. Support small businesses & give the readers in your life something new! Win-win.
November 19, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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deerea.rs
"equating “writing” with “publishing” is a slippery slope to requiring external validation to continue making work (and believing in said work) [...] this is often a toxic creative model, as it also causes one to devalue their work if it does not receive the attention its creator is hoping for."
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
i wrote this essay in one manic swoop. hope yall enjoy it.

open.substack.com/pub/natraum/...
hard pills to swallow #1: selling indie books
one little guy demystifying publishing in the bluntest way possible, one essay at a time
open.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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oxgarnet.bsky.social
this was such a great, invaluable read.
gr8earlofhell.bsky.social mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 17d
i rarely tease my own substack posts, but i wrote a lengthy essay about publishing that i am pretty proud of, and i'm releasing it for free tomorrow at noon EST.

natraum.substack.com to get it to your inbox—be sure to subscribe to "hard pills to swallow"
the pool | nat raum | Substack
Queer "artist" and "writer" based in Baltimore. Fan of ambient music, open-world RPGs, noise-cancelling headphones, reality tv, and bisexual lighting (preferably all at once). Click to read the pool, ...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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beestung.bsky.social
Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees!

em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Mac Wilder
sterling-elizabeth arcadia

Read their work at beestungmag.com
beestung's 2026 Best Small Fictions nominees em roth nat raum Loren Maria Guay Mac Wilder sterling-elizabeth arcadia
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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manyworlds.place
BIG congrats to manyworlds contribs @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @selizabeth.bsky.social, and Yufan Lu!!!! <3 we love beestung so much.
beestung.bsky.social beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 16d
Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees!

em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia

Read their work at beestungmag.com
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November 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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beestung.bsky.social
Huge congratulations and good luck to beestung's 2026 Best Microfiction nominees!

em roth
nat raum
Loren Maria Guay
Yufan Lu
sterling-elizabeth arcadia

Read their work at beestungmag.com
Floral and yellow background with the information in the post
November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM