Foglifter

Foglifter is an LGBTQ+ journal and press, but much more than that—we publish powerful, intersectional writing that queers our perspectives.

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Hey y'all! You might have noticed we're not as active on here anymore. 👀 Come find us on🦋 at our same handle.

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✨ Our co-editor-in-chief @todd_milo is celebrating his debut novel THE LILAC PEOPLE with some extra razzle dazzle! ⁠✨⁠Join him on April 29 for⁠ 💃🏽 A NIGHT AT THE ELDORADO💃🏽 ⁠featuring an amazing line up of talent 💅

🎟️ Get your tickets here: https://t.co/6ZaNj0KYsG

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Thank you for the s/o @chillsubs <3

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Where to send your writing this week!

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“It’s not enough to write 'about'. It’s also about writing 'towards' a certain audience.” — Jinwoo Chong interviewed by Stephen Patrick Bell on the Foglifter Blog about I LEAVE IT UP TO YOU (Ballantine Books, 2025) 💖 <3 ⁠
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We’re so excited to introduce our wonderful & talented guest editors for Foglifter Issue 10.2! 🌈 Please welcome Summer Farah (Poetry), @thestevenarcher (Fiction), & @noamkeim (Hybrid/Nonfiction)! Submissions are open until May 1st ! We can't wait to read your work ♡

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Poetry Editor, Luiza Flynn Goodlett, has her second book of poems ✨ MUD IN OUR MOUTHS: POEMS✨ coming out on March 15. 💐🌈🤍

Preorder here: https://t.co/uNb5M4WfRX

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We are now ✨OPEN✨ for submissions for Issue 10.2 !!! 💐🌈🤍 Queer & trans writers, submit your most transgressive, tender, and imaginative work! Featuring wonderful guest editors Summer Farah (@summabis), Steven Archer(@thestevenarchr), & noam keim

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We're hiring a PR/Events Coordinator (Bay Area)! Join Foglifter by applying at https://t.co/j6ae7KuE6O by March 16th! The position includes a $3000 yearly honorarium. ✨ We look forward to reading your applications 💕 ⁠

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Join us for our off-site event at AWP: 10th Anniversary Party: DECADENT + DEFIANT—CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF FOGLIFTER at the Tabula Rasa Wine Bar| 3/27| 7PM. Proceeds go to the CCI LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund. 🌈⁠
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“... we often are addressing a gay reader in the sense that we didn’t feel like we had to explain where Fire Island was or what rimming was.” — Edmund White interviewed by @StephenOrBell about his memoir, THE LOVES OF MY LIFE, on the Foglifter blog. ✨

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"Why aren't we able to listen to folks within their realities, without trying to think about it as something more imaginary?"

— @fredaepum interviewed by @rachellayown on the Foglifter blog about THE GLOOMY GIRL VARIETY SHOW (@FeministPress, 2025)

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"What would it mean to live – instead of in a short story – to live in a lyric?" — @bmanuel interviewed by Dez Deshaies about his new novel, HELLO STRANGER (@CatapultStory, 2025) on the Foglifter blog ✨

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"There is a way that I really do feel syntax — I mean I really do think it’s synesthetic. I feel syntax in this physical, kinetic, embodied way." — @GarthGreenwell interviewed by Patrick Nathan on the Foglifter blog about his novel, SMALL RAIN ✨🌧️

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Here’s a list of poetry books by queer people of color dropping next year, 2025! ☺️ https://t.co/XgBnuRIqQQ

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"[A] lush performance of memory, masculinity, race, and the looking back all poets do, but perhaps not this expertly." — Foglifter's Asst Poetry Editor @gabrielleghogan reviews COWBOY PARK (@UWiscPress) by @LaloMtzLeyva for the Foglifter blog ✨

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Dear beloved Foglifter community, please see the following statements from our editors regarding Foglifter joining the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and our renewed commitments post US election ❤️‍🔥

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On this #GivingTuesday, donate to Foglifter to help us revamp our website, create a digital version of our journal, & continue our mission of supporting and amplifying vital queer and trans writers! 🏳️‍⚧️🌈❤️‍🔥

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"This is as unpredictable and exciting as real life and the human brain." — @NDennerstein reviews BAD FORECAST (@EssayPress) by @steffantriplett for the Foglifter blog ✨

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