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FWP @ AWP '26 offsite events: Balancing Act: A Literary Circus. Weds 3/4 @ 7pm, The Club Car (12 W North Ave). in partnership with Mason Jar Press & JackLeg Press, hosted by The Workshop Prince. FRUITCAKE #8. Thurs 3/5 @ 6pm, Palm Room at The Belvedere (1 E Chase St). baltimore's quarterly queer reading series meets fwp. hosted by nat raum. buy our books! at the UBalt Booth (539–541), Thurs 3/5 from 12–3pm. take nat's workshop! at the UBalt Booth (539–541), Sat 3/7 from 11am–12pm (drop-in).

where to find your favorite independent publisher of queer literature and art at #AWP26

Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: motherboard Digital Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ motherboard Digital Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for motherboard: all genres. #CallforSubmissions

motherboard Digital Anthology by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for motherboard: all genres. #CallforSubmissions

another incredible @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social cover

the small monkey is my everything i fear

a reminder: real baltimoreans don't eat atlas or smoke curio!

nat raum @ awp26 weds march 4 Balancing Act: A Literary Circus. 7pm at The Club Carc 12 W North Ave. hosted by fwp, Mason Jar Press, JackLeg Press thurs march 5 UBalt CWPA MFA booth 9am–12pm; 12–3pm selling books, Booths 539–541 FRUITCAKE #8 6m in The Palm Room at the Belvedere, 1 E Chase St hosted by fwp/yours truly fri march 6 UBalt CWPA MFA booth shift times vary, Booths 539–541 troublemaker firestarter signing 10am–11am, Booth 1181 Ubalt CWPA MFA signing 2pm–3pm, Booths 539–541 sat march 7 UBalt CWPA MFA booth shift times vary drop-in zine workshop, 11am–12pm Death to JAKE 7pm at Club Charles, 1724 N Charles St

hi, btw

my take as a perennial attendee of awp is that baltimore is not ready for 10k+ writers to inundate us. not even close to ready, tbh. my take as a baltimorean is that you do NOT want to go out in central baltimore next weekend, trust me.

prepare accordingly.

hi reminder if you are coming to baltimore for #AWP26: don't eat atlas! don't smoke curio!

S/D/Y Feb 22 – Conversation with my Ghost by Abigail Lilith Ravenheart – Fifth Wheel Press I’ll be honest, I chose to read Conversation with my Ghost out of all the other pieces in this publication, partly because of the title, but mostly because it was the only one with a content …

Day 53! I read Conversation with my Ghost by @abigailravenheart.bsky.social published by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social. A heartful conversation, and an important one. Read my review here:
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DASHBOARD AWARD WINNERS! @mdbolsover.bsky.social, @sampadgett96.bsky.social, & Cade Smith!

THANK YOU TO THE PUBLICATIONS & NOMINATORS! @rangermagazine.bsky.social @davidabishop.bsky.social, Salt Hill, & @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social!

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the flyer for "balancing act: a literary circus" on March 4, 7pm at the club car, 12 W North Ave. the flyer features a circus-tent background and the event's title and information is lettered across a marquee set slightly above the horizontal center of the flyer. above the marquee, white text reads "join fifth wheel press, jackleg press, & mason jar press for an evening of burlesque, drag, and literary performance..." below the marquee, white text reads "hosted by the workshop prince & featuring rahne alexander, yasmine bolden, genevieve deguzman, eze jackson, dave k, ani king, manic!, amanda mccormick, rita mookerjee, christopher nelson, karol olesiak, tramaine suubi, jade e welsh, stephen zerance. tips accepted at the door in support of trans maryland."

FRUITCAKE: Baltimore's quarterly queer reading series, in collaboration with fifth wheel press especially for AWP 2026. The Palm Room at The Belvedere. March 5, 6:30pm (6:00 doors) Featuring Sadee Bee, Veronica Bennett, Ashley Elizabeth, Diamond Forde, Erika Gill, Axel B. Kolcow, Alison Lubar, Bleah Patterson, Caroline Ganci Patterson, Jessica Nirvana Ram, nat raum A caked-up pear is also featured

a reminder to all #AWP26 attendees: we have TWO offsites!!! each with absolutely stellar lineups! support local literature while u are in baltimore or i will secretly think you are uncool!!!!!

february '26 falling in love with myself in this new decade

natraum.substack.com/p/february-26

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Our Dashboard Award: Jumpstart WINNER is ...

Cade Smith's "Ode to the Strand of Hair That Got Stuck in My Gum," published by fifth wheel press & nominated by editor nat raum!

Bouncy & earnest, we found it irresistibly alive!

Read it here: fifthwheelpress.com/anth8-backen...

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i'm putting my whole everything into hosting these and have made absolutely zero plans for myself as an author of multiple books, if that tells you how good they are going to be

thank you, Phil!

they identify the same brain space for me (also have seen neither)

nat raum ain’t never been wise stop calling me superstitious now—i have medical proof that all of this has just been brushes with luck. i mean more than the way i have apparently been a scarecrow sinc…

a poem about being born with no wisdom teeth

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and do NOT forget about fruitcake. a fun fact about fruitcake is that this is a REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENT!!!! it doesn't go away when awp leaves the city!!!

with gasoline nat raum cover: a pink and black molotov cocktail on a background of blue. the title is in white in a bold gothic text fueled by righteous anger, moral clarity, and political courage. raum takes aim at transphobes, billionaires, bootlickers, boomers, and milquetoast liberals alike—in other words becoming “your worst fucking nightmare”—to help us envision instead a future of trans liberation. - Evelyn Berry, author of Grief Slut and T4T kith books literary home of the trans, Crip, queer, & sick

fueled by righteous anger, moral clarity, and political courage. raum takes aim at transphobes, billionaires, bootlickers, boomers, and milquetoast liberals alike."
- Evelyn Berry, author of Grief Slut and T4T

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
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air after midnight now & i am instituting the freight train over lombard street shut the fuck up challenge & it's not an attack on trains but actually in defense of a silent night, soundtracked only by tires across slick pavement & an errant thrush. it's been months since i heard a whistle sound through the stark chill of midnight air & i swear this tree had leaves the last time i looked but here we are now, in the waxing-days of january staring at pockets of orangegrey between shadows of branches. i will always bemoan july's humid advances but never stop to consider the right now of it all—the way chills lurch up unsuspecting spine, regardless of the weight of my jacket. the black-iced patches of uneven brick sidewalk. the way a sound, any sound, cuts the sky in the first hours of a new year, ecstatic at all the streets it may roam unencumbered. i keep a stock of blades to cut the sky beneath my tongue / shaped like every sound that was rejected by my kin

"air," a Pushcart-nominated poem from the microchapbook (e)laments (coming Feb 23rd from @stonecorpse.com), co-authored with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social , first published in @genrepunkmag.bsky.social

pre-orders now open!

not gonna post it here and now because i’m a marketing guru genius but @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social sent me the cover for Transmasc Marvel Girl today and they slayed it dead

@gr8earlofhell.bsky.social is cooking up a killer cover for this one and also said it "encapsulates the transgender experience" so y'know if you've ever been curious about transitioning or like watching movies you should keep an eye out!

Pre order!! So excited for these collaborative poems 🔥

kith digital kith so starved for touch i trace my own arms to feel skin on skin cracked lips tingle sinking battleship in the absence - ghost town salt box traces longing and desire over the c...

succumbed to the 202 books read in 2025 to 1 book read in January 2026 pipeline (it was @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social’s “salt box” and I read it on January 1)

a collage featuring red & blue ambient elements, grey structural elements, and a classically painted portrait

pre-orders are now open for (e)laments, a collaborative microchap written with @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social and published by @stonecorpse.com

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