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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 16h

Random bouts of infuriating insomnia, too. 🫩

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 16h

This is my exact experience for the last few months! You are correct.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 16h

If you can support and buy a copy of this zine, please do. Thankful to have a photo appearing in this issue. (And what a stunning cover image!)

Beth Gilstrap (she/her) @bettysueblue.bsky.social · 17h

Orders for @blacklilyzine.bsky.social issue 3 are now open! See details below.

A b& white photo of a human in dark clothing, one hand near heart, one hand by their side and wearing a bag over their head w a sad face drawn on it in black marker.

TOC for Issue 3 of Black Lily:

BLACK LILY - ISSUE 03 - FALL / WINTER 2025
IN THIS ISSUE
POETRY BY VANESA PACHECO
9-11
ART BY KATHY LOU SCHULTZ
12-13
FICTION BY CLAYTON BRADSHAW-MITTAL ...
14-16
POETRY BY DEE ALLEN. .
17
POETRY BY RHY ROBIDOUX
18-19
ART BY PIPER CORNMAN.
20-21
POETRY BY SHARON DENMARK
22
POETRY BY EVELYN BERRY
23
POETRY BY RHEA MELINA
24-26
ART BY VICTORIA SHEN
27
POETRY BY MORGAN WRIGHT
28
POETRY BY COURT HARLER
29
POETRY BY JEN KROPINAK
30
ART BY IRINA TALL NOVIKOVA
31-32
FICTION BY MIKE MCLELLAND
33-38
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATTHEW R. HUMPHREY
39-41
POETRY BY MEGAN MCDERMOTT
42-43
NONFICTION BY KRISTINE LANGLEY MAHLER
44-46
NONFICTION BY GRAYSON BUCKLEY
47-49
POETRY BY d.w. bayliss
50
POETRY BY LILYANNE KANE
51
FICTION BY JAMES R. GAPINSKI
52-54
ART BY PAUL LUIKART
55-57
FICTION BY PAUL LUIKART
58
POETRY BY RENEE SALMÓN.
59
POETRY BY CALEB EDMONDSON
60
FICTION BY HEATHER BELL ADAMS
61-62
POETRY BY CAL FREEMAN
63
POETRY BY JEREMY MICHAEL REED
64
POETRY BY JOSHUA LILLIE
65-66
POETRY BY RONNIE JACKSON
67-68
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KRISTEN HAVENS
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NONFICTION BY JORDON BRIGGS
70-74
POETRY BY J.L. ABBOTT
75
POETRY BY HUNTER HODKINSON
76-77
ART + PHOTOGRAPHY BY KARAH TULL
78, 86
FICTION BY DAVID BRADY.
79-85
POETRY BY GENEVIEVE BETTS
87-88

Details for ordering:
Alright y'all, I think we've got 99% of the final final edits in (it's a big issue & comms w writers (myself included) are like herding cats), so we are now open for orders. Please email me at blacklilyzine@gmail.com, tell me how many you want, give me the addresses where you'd like them sent, and Venmo me @Beth-Gilstrap-2 $8 each, or 2 for $15 + shipping.

Standard mail (in the U.S. is usually cheapest at a couple bucks, media mail is around $4.50 last I checked). We are a goth/punk leaning zine & I think this issue responds to the fascists with a clear, LOUD voice. Spread the word.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 5d

Book banners say they are only targeting pornography and books with no literary merit.

Since 2021, works by more than a dozen #NobelPrizeForLiterature-winning authors have been banned in U.S. school districts.

https://pen.org/nobel-prize-winners-banned/ #BannedBooksWeek

These Authors Won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Their Books Have Been Banned in Districts Across the Country

For countless U.S. schoolchildren, works by more than a dozen Nobel-winning authors have been banned and removed from shelves.

pen.org

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 4d

Loved “Do-over.” “Each pain amassed in the jar of my brain.” (I hope I faithfully reproduced that from memory!)

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 4d

Cool pivot in the middle of this piece, @ronburch.bsky.social.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 7d

New flash by me! Thank you, @doesithavepockets.bsky.social!

Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social · 7d

"Each of us is alone, but we’re together in loneliness: isn’t that enough?"

Short story, long title, massive impact. Fabulous new flash #fiction from @kristenhavens.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/kris...

Art @anchalastudio.bsky.social

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 13d

Autumn (Online) is calling! 🍂🍁

For the first time ever, Tin House is opening up our online faculty readings to the public! All readings are on Zoom and are free to attend.

Register here: forms.gle/NPQx38ksrxUJ...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 13d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 14d

Good lord. What an embarrassment he is.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 18d

The bean plant in my garden that I posted about 6 months ago, just before I went on a digital fast—it’s bloomed and faded and come back to bawdy life:

Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 18d

And characters squeezing the bridge of their nose or rubbing their forehead when the narration is close third… we’re in their head already. Let’s hear their feelings, not see the gestures that follow.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · 18d

Love this!

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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social · 19d

Revision tip: check your manuscript for gasp, held breath, twisted guts, glanced, saw, felt, monitor, control, lighting strike, smiled, fringed, glared, sucked in, scrunched, blood stopped, ran cold, anything filtering emotions as bodily responses, especially ones which are involuntary in real life

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · Apr 11

Update your ID. Do it now. Tomorrow.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · Apr 10

🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.

Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · Apr 4

Open to submissions:

blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · Apr 3

Deadline extended to 4/15. Still needing stuff in every genre. If we don’t get enough submissions, I’m gonna consider the project unviable and close after two issues but still proud of what we put out.

blacklilyzine.bsky.social @blacklilyzine.bsky.social · Mar 18

Hey y’all. We’re a smol, still new goth/punk/antifascist print-only zine. If you want to put your angst about this shit into art/poetry/fiction/CNF/flash/or hybrid firms, please and sit to us. We’re open til 4/1. It’s a small thing we’re doing but I hope it helps. Submission guidelines below:

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you, @doesithavepockets.bsky.social! (Just getting this account going over here…)

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · Apr 2

Tariffs bad, fiction good. I got a flash story accepted today. It’ll come out in October. Here’s to doing what makes us tick, whatever else may happen.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · Mar 31

Sometime in the last month I’ve started aggressively closing apps with a flinging motion as if dealing cards from the top of a deck. I now, officially, use my smartphone just like my mother.

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Val Delane @valdelane.net · Mar 23

23andMe is going under. Californians have the right to delete their genetic data before it's turned over to next party buying the assets. If you have a 23andMe account, go log in to download whatever reports you want to save, then follow these instructions to delete your data.

Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers

Californians have the right to direct the company to delete their genetic data OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a consumer alert to customers of 23andMe, a genetic testing ...

oag.ca.gov

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Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social · Mar 22

Don't miss Writing Outside of Your Lane, an upcoming Community Class with Milo Todd on March 28!

This 90-minute lecture welcomes writers of all identities and focuses on equipping you with the knowledge and confidence to write with integrity.
#onlineclass #writingclass #clarionwest

Text over abstract blue background reads: Clarion West Community Class $5-25 Sliding Scale. Writing Outside of Your Lane with Milo Todd. Friday, March 28 at 4PM PST. Learn tools to approach writing characters outside of your own lived experience with care.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · Mar 22

One of the things keeping me sane right now: our community garden. This is a bean plant that showed up, planted by some past gardener. Seeing all these intentions come to fruition is oddly moving. Someone wanted these plants and trusted them to live on into the future.

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Kristen Havens @kristenhavens.bsky.social · Mar 16

Thanks!