Frond

Prose from LGBTQI2SA writers | tweets by @madisonraest and @notnicolebrewer

[Frond @frondliterary]

We have so enjoyed sending each piece from this season out into the world and thank everyone who read them, shared them, and especially everyone who wrote them. Stay tuned for future calls for submission, which will always be announced on our website and on our social media❤️

[Frond @frondliterary]

We blinked and it’s the final issue of season 2! We’re happy and sad about it!! But happy feelings ONLY about sharing “Cutting Cattails” by Larque Law🌿🌈💚 https://t.co/psC9pL1mDR

[Frond @frondliterary]

“All earthly things carry secrets," Law tells us with this story, & the story is heavy with secrets in the way that even a small rock is heavy if held for too long.

[Frond @frondliterary]

See you tonight at https://t.co/GTBR7ldwTq 😘

[Frond @frondliterary]

Today is the 🙂 last day 🙃 of Frond season 2! We'll be publishing a piece of creative non-fiction by Larque Law in just a few hours 🌿🌈💚

[Frond @frondliterary]

She’s currently working on her debut book Cicada
Songs, a collection of memories, poems, and prose exploring family loss and childhood
trauma while highlighting the role of the natural world in one’s everyday life.

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And if you didn’t know, while you’re on our website to read Jeli’s piece, you can subscribe to receive all future Fronds directly to your inbox. Just leave us your email in the sidebar 💌

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The time has come to say HI to issue 2.5!! 🤗 🌞 🌻 Today we’re publishing a fiction piece in three vignettes by Jeli Stanković! https://t.co/F3lpY119vD

[Frond @frondliterary]

This suite of vignettes is not a story but a feeling, not a place but an in-between; the characters are themselves commas, a pause, a break in forward motion to rest in the liminal.
https://t.co/F3lpY119vD

[Frond @frondliterary]

Read season 2 so far at https://t.co/GTBR7ldwTq. See you tomorrow 👋

[Frond @frondliterary]

Coming tomorrow: Frond Friday ☺️☺️☺️ For issue 2.5, we're publishing a suite of 3 short fiction pieces by Jeli Stanković 🌿🌈💚 You can find them in these depths: @ seeking.soil (Instagram) or https://t.co/CwqoOxGdQR (their website).

[Frond @frondliterary]

Jeli Stanković is a visual artist & writer exploring folklore, displacement, queerness, gender identity, & the body as it exists in social contexts and in relationship with the earth. In work and life, they’re a maximalist, focusing on ideas of scarcity & abundance in art.

[Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga]

#todayspoem Only Once in This Lifetime Were You the Bur Oak by Tess Liem (2022 @frondliterary) https://t.co/5cp91XtZRZ

[Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga]

"To wash plastic before you recycle it is to consider the hands you will not touch."

#sundaysentence by Tess Liem (2022 @frondliterary) https://t.co/5cp91XtZRZ

[Frond @frondliterary]

If you haven’t yet, read T. Liem’s poems at https://t.co/HnQERJHCCu and while you’re there, subscribe in our menu bar to receive our future publications in your inbox ✨

[Frond @frondliterary]

Add this to your reading list!! Last week’s Frond author T. Liem has a poetry collection, Obits., out with @coachhousebooks! You can order a copy from the publisher on their website 📩 https://t.co/EhfiPP0hAG

[Frond @frondliterary]

From @coachhousebooks : Can poems mourn the unmourned? What does it mean to be an 'I' mourning a 'you' when both have been othered? Centering vulnerability, the various answers to this question pass through trauma, depression, and the experience of being a mixed-race queer woman.

[Sylvia Santiago @sylviasays2]

"Your losses return to you like a hammer to a string. There is / this sour ache in the archive of your guts. You want to know what / happens next and you will."
@teeeliem

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ISSUE 2.4 IS LIVE‼️ We hope you’re keeping cozy and warm this Friday and we hope that these two prose poems by T. Liem are the cherry on top 🍒

https://t.co/HnQERJHCCu

[Frond @frondliterary]

Apart, a collection of thoughts may only be thoughts, but together they are a feeling, and a story, and Liem's tightly constructed prose poems uncover a lifetime's worth of story settled just between, just underneath, the words we have been given🌿🌈💚