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November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM

mosh pit daria

@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

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.

November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM

mosh pit daria

@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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kith books

@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

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
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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Dr. Cavar 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 ✡️

@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

mosh pit daria

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

new newsletter?

natraum.substack.com/p/november-25

november '25

November 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM

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fifth wheel press

@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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Thirty West Publishing

@thirtywestph.com

Ditto. Adding @bullshitlit.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @maudlinhouse.bsky.social @splitlippress.com @whitestagpub.bsky.social

Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 9d

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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deertransition, baby

@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."

mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 12d

i wrote this essay in one manic swoop. hope yall enjoy it.

open.substack.com/pub/natraum/...

one little guy demystifying publishing in the bluntest way possible, one essay at a time

November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM

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mosh pit daria

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

i wrote this essay in one manic swoop. hope yall enjoy it.

open.substack.com/pub/natraum/...

one little guy demystifying publishing in the bluntest way possible, one essay at a time

the pool | nat raum | Substack

November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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o.x.garnet

@oxgarnet.bsky.social

this was such a great, invaluable read.

mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 14d

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"

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, ...

November 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM

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beestung

@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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manywor(l)ds :: place

@manyworlds.place

BIG congrats to manyworlds contribs @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social, @selizabeth.bsky.social, and Yufan Lu!!!! <3 we love beestung so much.

beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 12d

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

@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

November 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM

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Ben Shahon

@beansbaker5.bsky.social

nat is 100% someone you should be listening to on these topics. Lotta good advice in here!

mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 12d

i wrote this essay in one manic swoop. hope yall enjoy it.

open.substack.com/pub/natraum/...

one little guy demystifying publishing in the bluntest way possible, one essay at a time

November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM

mosh pit daria

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

i wrote this essay in one manic swoop. hope yall enjoy it.

open.substack.com/pub/natraum/...

one little guy demystifying publishing in the bluntest way possible, one essay at a time

Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

November 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Haymarket Books

@haymarketbooks.org

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we offer an extensive reading list about border and police ab...

www.haymarketbooks.org

November 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM

mosh pit daria

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

for the evening crowd

mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 14d

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, ...

the pool | nat raum | Substack

November 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM

mosh pit daria

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social

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"

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, ...