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@jiecohen
Writer. International Teacher. Intersex horror. Work in DIAGRAM, The Offing, The Minnesota Review, EX-Puritan, Strange Horizons, Singapore Unbound, http://POETS.org and others. Reader for Electric Literature. 2025 LAMBDA Poetry Fellow. 2026 Tin House.
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"Gaia:
There is no water left in me—
I blanch and I recede."
From “Gaia: [uncomfortably]” and “Gaia and 21st Century Malfunction”, new Back of the Envelope pieces by Jie V. Cohen at The Offing today!
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Today, we're so thrilled to be able to celebrate our 2026 Winter Online Workshop Scholars!!!
Please give these writers their flowers and help us to celebrate them! We're so grateful to have been able to support their work!
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I teach high school. They’ve infected me. I say “cooked” “slimed” and “67” so often I have forgotten who I am and where I come from.
Then I remember the stupid shit I used to say in high school and I’m like, yknow, at least teens still have their own secret languages :)
Okay can I say its EERIE how much your picrew resembles you
"Clair Obscur" would be a pretty good drag name.
Chag sameach!!! 🕎
Story is mid but character design fucks and the gameplay is really wonderful.
80 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
Thirty West Publishing
you'll laugh, wince, cry, cum.. you'll see your local tgirl community in a brand new light
This is the most seismic thing to happen in Trans Lit in like the last four or so years. Alice is setting the bar that all of us will try in vain to surpass or even touch. Pre order it fucking now
once again you must preorder this book if you're interested in either the american short story tradition or the future of trans fiction
gonna be the book of 2026
have you pre ordered "again, harder" from feminist press?
here's some anonymized ballyhoo from friends & peers
The final award for the year: the #pushcartprize We nominate @toriiellen.bsky.social @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social with Afterimages prose, & Thirty West poets @jiecohen.bsky.social Abigail Michelini, Rayni K. Wekluk, & JP Infante
Best of luck,writers! 🎉
You’ll get to read all 6 on our site soon!
Award nominations for Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, & Best Microfiction drops this week.
I just rewatched Sword of Doom the other day, and was remarking to my spouse about how cool it was that Tatsuya Nakadai was still around.
RIP to a legendary actor.
I’m going through an *intense* chronic issue with my stomach, and I completely sympathize. GI symptoms are unlike anything I’ve experienced with other chronic illness issues I have =\ blah! Get well please!
My weirdest piece of writing ever is featured in this issue. Thank you Diagram :)
Say wallahi
The Breeders
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: Gackt, L'arc-en-ciel, Dir en Grey, TM Revolution, The Pillows, Flow, Malice Mizer, Sambomaster, X Japan, Asian Kung Fu Generation, and High and Mighty Color
This is such a good book. I am so excited!!!
My wife @ashgabrielle.bsky.social is pitching sapphic fantasy--conan the barbarian but lesbians in central asia!
AMAZING.
The title is a reference to Lady of Shalott, yes? :) So great!
My wife just started her querying journey and I am helping her out with it! Her novel is rather long at 115k, sapphic fantasy set in Central Asia. Would the word count be something you’d worry about? Or is that within a range that agents of fantasy find acceptable if they like the query/pages?
Do it! My friend did this and is happily living and working in Italy now c:
I hate my viewers
The problem with this, though, is that ultimately they are teenagers and want the easiest way out. Plus, that essay needs to be written eventually—so even though it is a good activity, those kids are still going to go back to generative AI to do the heavy lifting for their writing anyway…
Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv
They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already
WAIT I JUST STARTED REWATCHING THIS TOO!!!
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