Aarron Sholar

Author of THE BODY OF A FROG (2024) & A PATH TOWARDS PREGNANCY (2025) / Pushcart and BoN ‘22

[Tyler Stasi 🍓👒🕰️ @tyler_stasi]

writer confession: i never know if it’s lie or lay and i’ll just wait until someone corrects me (i’ve learned the difference so many times and yet i still mix them up)

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

Well that was a hiatus I wasn’t expecting (babies are A LOT of work 😅) BUT! Guess what came out this year?! My chapbook! Please order a copy for a quick and engaging read!

https://t.co/oFtsUVGohN

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

Don’t forget that you can still order my upcoming chapbook! I need to sell at least 15 more copies for them to print it. PLEASE consider buying a copy so it can still be released!

https://t.co/oFtsUVGohN

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

Man, postpartum anxiety and depression is a bitch. But hey, my prose poem “Spider Mother” will be in the upcoming issue of The Broadkill Review! #WritingCommunity

[Finishing Line Press @FLPress]

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: A Path Towards Pregnancy by Aarron Sholar
On SALE:   https://t.co/3lcmwA1HRc

Aarron Sholar‘s debut collection, A Path Towards Pregnancy: Musings of 2023, grapples with the #physical and #mental #struggles of a #transexual #man trying to get #pregnant. His entries come together as a #diary— unfiltered, personal, and unashamed. #prose

Aarron Sholar is a transgender writer and author of The Body of a Frog: A Memoir on Self-Loathing, Self-Love, and Transgender Pregnancy (Atmosphere Press 2024) . He has essays in Prose Online, Thin Air Online, Sunspot Lit, and The Broadkill Review, which have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He holds an MFA from MSU, Mankato and a BA from Salisbury University. You can interact with him on Twitter/X @aarron_sholar.

PRAISE FOR A Path Towards Pregnancy by Aarron Sholar

 “At once candid and lyrical, A Path Towards Pregnancy: Musings of 2023 is a stunning journey through the embodied contradictions so often inherent to queer family planning. Sholar’s monthly vignettes deftly capture the duality of dysphoria and desire in trans masculine pregnancy and pre-parenthood.”
–Zoë Bossiere, author of Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir

A Path Towards Pregnancy takes an unflinching look at the difficulty of conception, of wrestling with one’s body, and with it, identity, in our stubbornly binary world. The opening entry provides what I think is the core of Sholar’s work: “We read to know we are not alone.” The book ends with an erasure of this opening entry, full of understanding and promise for what is to come: “this is the way I bring and pay an unexpected price for a baby.”  Because of Sholar’s brave prose, interspersed through 14 entries that read like journal excerpts, we know the oscillation between fear, hope, pain, relief, and grief of those who contemplate conception. And it is because of this that readers will know they are not alone. And that is the beating heart of art: community, safety, seeing and being seen and holding and being held. That we, as readers, can “crawl back into bed” and feel, as the speaker does, arms of comfort wrap around us through Sholar’s words.
–Nikki Ummel, author of Bloom, Bayou Sonata, and Hush

Please share/repost #flpauthor #preorder #AwesomeCoverArt #read #literature #prose #trans #transexual #pregnancy #pregnant #struggles #life

[Sky Island Journal @Sky1sland]

Average response time of 9 days? ✅ Independent, international, free to read & free from advertising? ✅ Over 150k readers? ✅ Over 1k contributors? ✅ Send us your poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction for Issue 31—NOW through March 31st!

https://t.co/4e7pZliFAF

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

A sneak peak into my chapbook, A PATH TOWARDS PREGNANCY, from @inparenth!

Preorder here: https://t.co/oFtsUVGohN

#WritingCommunity #memoir

[BLEACH! | Subs Closed @bleachlitmag]

hey, we're open for subs!

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

Thank you so much to @tangledlockslit for including me in this collection! Go order a copy of your haven’t already!

[Impossible Archetype @impossiblearch]

LGBTQ+ poets, we are open for submissions until 1st March. Get in!

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

Do you want a quick read that will really make you think about conception and parenthood in a different way? Preorder A PATH TOWARDS PREGNANCY!

https://t.co/oFtsUVGohN

#WritingCommunity #poetry #prose

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

It’s above freezing, so the baby and I are going to try and go on a walk today. Wish me luck 🫡

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

“Because of Sholar’s brave words… we know the oscillation between fear, hope, pain, relief, and grief of those who contemplate conception. And it is because of this that readers will know they are not alone.”

–@NikkiUmmel author of Bloom, Bayou Sonata, and Hush

[Shō Poetry Journal @sho_journal]

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind.

• Payment is one contributor copy

• We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize

• We award $150 each for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet

[Underbelly Press - ISSUE 7 OUT NOW @UnderbellyPress]

Friendly reminder we are open for submissions until Feb 17!
Looking for uncomfortable, unfiltered pieces that aren't afraid to investigate the underbelly of existence, narratives exploring the overlooked, the untold, the dark, dirty aspects of being human

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

Friends! The preorder for my chapbook is up! If you want a slight discount, now’s the time!

https://t.co/oFtsUVGW7l

#WritingCommunity

[Aarron Sholar @aarron_sholar]

Do you write science fiction? Hit me up! I’m trying to connect a new writer with others in his genre! #WritingCommunity

[The Crossroads Review (SUBS OPEN) @thecrossroadsrv]

We respond to all submissions within 24 hours! Submit today and be a part of our Spring Issue!

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TONS of pitch calls & writing opportunities 💼 📣

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[Colorado Review @Colorado_Review]

✏️ AUTHOR INTERVIEW ✏️

Victoria Chang discusses writing as a reader, the relationship between poetry and philosophy, and her work in the Fall/Winter 2024 issue of Colorado Review with Assistant Managing Editor Chase Cate.

Head to the link in our bio for this interview & more ✍️