@zoebossiere
Writer | Managing Editor at brevitymag.com | CACTUS COUNTRY: A BOYHOOD MEMOIR out now from Abrams Books | Indies Introduce & Indie NEXT | rep’d by @frecklywench.bsky.social | they/she 🏳️⚧️🏜 | https://linktr.ee/zoebossiere | zoebossiere.com
Don’t let the days go by without reading my @marchxness.bsky.social essay on life as a ‘90s sad boy, aching to be beautiful and charismatic Gavin Rossdale, crooning “Glycerine” shirtless in the rain as a sea of sweaty MTV Spring Breakers sing along to yr heartbreak.
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Round #1
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ARRRREEEE YOUUUUU READDDDYYYYY
In Brevity's latest issue: stories of beginnings and endings, the sudden loss of mothers, neighbors, and comrades, the birth of new realizations. Featuring poignant artwork by Michael Todd Cohen made with foraged pigments from the artist's region. It’s all here. It’s all for you. brevitymag.com
Brevity's new issue launched this morning. Flash essays from Nicole Walker, Alex Sokol, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Shuly Cawood, Thomasin LaMay, Charles Montgomery, Derek Maiolo, José Orduña, Josh Martin, Liz Sauchelli, Margaret Grayson, and Rocky Halpern. Artwork by Michael Todd Cohen.
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See also: Mike Myers as The Cat in the Hat 😬
Thank you @bookriot.bsky.social for featuring Cactus Country on this list of books to read for Genderfluid Visibility Week! bookriot.com/genderfluid-...
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
Go, Davon!
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
Brevity literary magazine showcases essays by @stevenchurch.bsky.social, @marjiealonso.com. Richard Robbins, Toni Judnitch, Heather Shaw, @mollyakin.bsky.social , @jtwattles.bsky.social, Dana Wall, Heather Kindree Thomas, @suelick.bsky.social, Julie Hou, and Lori White.
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@dintywmoore.bsky.social
Brevity is now open for submissions! 📣 We are currently reading personal essays of 750 words or fewer in any style or subgenre. Writers whose perspectives have been traditionally underrepresented in publishing are especially encouraged to submit! Guidelines: brevity.submittable.com/submit
We do not and will never encourage writers to use AI in the drafting of creative literary work, and neither Brevity the literary magazine nor The Brevity Blog will consider work that is AI-generated or assisted.
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The Brevity Blog is a separate editorial team & pub than the literary magazine. As the Brevity lit mag's managing editor, I can say we do not & will never consider essays written—even partially—by LLMs. Ethics aside, we consider AI anathema to what makes art worth making & stories worth telling
"The more I wrote, the more I remembered. The more I remembered, the more I returned to myself." ~ @zoebossiere.bsky.social
"We would exchange books to save our lives, to create a conversation that helped us challenge the violence of the culture around us and imagine something else [...] In a certain sense, you hold onto books as if they’re friends. And ammunition as well."
Incredibly inspiring @mbsycamore.bsky.social
Rose Hill Farm + Oblong Books! A hand holds a sticker that says CHASING THAT SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR HIGH.
i can't fix the world but i CAN put on a grown-up book fair that raises money to help fight book bans across the US, so that's what i'm doing.
if you're in the hudson valley on friday, may 2 and want to come to a beautiful farm with food trucks... i got you: www.oblongbooks.com/event/book-f...
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#AWP25 haul.
Books by:
@gracelp.bsky.social
@samuelashworth.bsky.social
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
@aaronburch.bsky.social
@kevinrmaloney.bsky.social
@dtrobbins.bsky.social
@wwwwkurtcom.bsky.social
(among others)
The Way We Never Were American Families And The Nostalgia Trap, by Stephanie Coontz, 1992
Please assign this book to your students! I'm begging you! The white power far right dominates discussions of the family again. Your students really don't know anything about family history. All they know are racist sexist lies. Heck, assign it in your physics classes!
Copy of the book No Offense: A Memoir in Essays in front of the 2025 AWP sign
Five memoir authors holding copies of their books
Three nonfiction authors posing in front of Skylight Books sign
Display of various books and merch from the AWP conference
AWP recap in photos. 📸 Great readings, lovely writers. Completely exhausted, but good vibes overall. @zoebossiere.bsky.social @womanistbae.bsky.social @earthtokb.bsky.social @fredaepum.bsky.social @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social
Happy Birthday!
Today is my birthday & #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️⚧️! I would love it if you shared my genderqueer debut novel ENDPAPERS, which
"Explores what we lose when we keep our innermost selves hidden--and what it means to forge an authentic life through art."—Antonia Angress
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So long as they see you you're doing it right
BOOTH 718 #AWP25 LAST CHANCE TO GET A COPY OF NO OFFENSE! I WILL GIVE YOU A DISCOUNT! I WILL WRITE YOU A LOVE NOTE! PLZ DON’T MAKE ME CARRY THEM ALL HOME MY BACK HURTS 😢
Day 2 of the AWP Conference book fair at the @rosemetalpress.bsky.social table! Number 550! Come say hi!