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@badappledotgay

Aotearoa’s tastiest queer arts and literature journal. Run completely on volunteer work.

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Closing tonight (Sunday!!!)

11.05.2025 10:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
DEADLINE EXTENDED 
Closes MAY 11 AT MIDNIGHT!

Attention LGBTQ+ folks of the world! New Zealand's largest platform for queer art and writing is open for submissions.

Submit your work to the bad apple
World Tour today!

Email worldtour@badapple.gay or follow the link in our bio for details!

DEADLINE EXTENDED Closes MAY 11 AT MIDNIGHT! Attention LGBTQ+ folks of the world! New Zealand's largest platform for queer art and writing is open for submissions. Submit your work to the bad apple World Tour today! Email worldtour@badapple.gay or follow the link in our bio for details!

Post image Deadline Extended
CLOSES MAY 11 AT MIDNIGHT!

We're looking for art, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, video, photography, audio-basically anything that can be posted online we will try and make it work.

Successful submissions will be published online at badapple.gay in June for a special
International Pride collection.

Deadline Extended CLOSES MAY 11 AT MIDNIGHT! We're looking for art, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, video, photography, audio-basically anything that can be posted online we will try and make it work. Successful submissions will be published online at badapple.gay in June for a special International Pride collection.

We extended our deadline for the bad apple WORLD TOUR! Now closes Sunday May 11 at midnight in your local timezone.

23.04.2025 11:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Ella Sage unpicks her own mind and the anxiety that has lurked in the corners of her psyche my whole life; she is in love with the art of freezing.

badapple.gay/2025/04/02/c...

01.04.2025 22:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We are almost there! Only a few hundred dollars to our goal with a week to go. If you’re able to throw even a few dollars to our Boosted it will be deeply appreciated!

www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

31.03.2025 23:27 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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In this response through personal essay, Nuanzhi Zheng stretches her thoughts on Xin Ji’s ‘Body Story’ to consider queerness, Chinese identity, family and whether the body truly keeps the score.

badapple.gay/2025/03/31/b...

31.03.2025 05:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Last week, Rebecca Mary Gwendolon had a raucous time at ‘Antonio!’—a musical that perhaps was made specifically for them.

“It is a complex game they’re playing and this team didn’t once drop the ball.”

badapple.gay/2025/03/26/a...

27.03.2025 02:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kia ora e hoa mā, we are still raising funds to publish three Māori books with Āporo Press if you have capacity to donate!

Only 30% to go!

Here’s a new poem from Nicola Andrew’s forthcoming collection that will be supported by your pūtea.

www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

26.03.2025 02:28 👍 7 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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Hannah Jamieson had the rare opportunity to sit down and learn about the art of reviewing from Sam Brooks. Here, she notes some takeaways.

badapple.gay/2025/03/25/t...

26.03.2025 22:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Three Books from Āporo Press Boosted is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only arts crowdfunding platform. We’re here to bring creatives and supporters together to grow creativity. With our mentored approach to crowdfunding, we have one of ...

It’s happy 20th of the month to independent contractors day! Since you’re probably super flush right now (haha) why not throw a few dollars toward indie Māori publishing (pleaseeee)

www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

19.03.2025 22:28 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Holly Rowsell laments on the curvature of citrus fruits, the taste of coconut water and the smell of an old friend’s letters in this new poem ‘you’ve crept into everything!’.

badapple.gay/2025/03/18/y...

18.03.2025 21:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Cyborg Manifucksto – bad apple

Pretty exciting and bonkers news today that ‘The Cyborg Manifucksto’ by @understatesmen.bsky.social that we published last year is a finalist in the Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Best Production/Publication.

It’s NSFW but you can read it here: badapple.gay/2024/10/25/t...

16.03.2025 06:21 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

... okay here it is, the essay I wrote about wanting to fuck a mech is up for a major award

sffanz.nz/the-sir-juli...

the essay itself, obviously not work safe, may be found here:

badapple.gay/2024/10/25/t...

16.03.2025 05:05 👍 98 🔁 20 💬 11 📌 4
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bad apple World Tour! Accepting submissions from international queer artists and writers for publication in June 2025.

Deadline is April 30 2025. For details on how to submit head to badapple.gay/world-tour/

14.03.2025 03:25 👍 25 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
World Tour Submissions – bad apple

Submissions are open until midnight (wherever you live) on April 30th.

For details on how to submit, head to badapple.gay/world-tour!

14.03.2025 03:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We're looking for art, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, video, photography, audio etc. etc. etc. basically anything that can be posted online we will try and make it work.

This is the big one—our major collection for International Pride Month coming in June 2025.

14.03.2025 03:23 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Submissions are officially open to anyone living /outside/ of Aotearoa New Zealand. That's right, for the first time, we are exclusively seeking international LGBTQ+ contributors for publication on badapple.gay.

14.03.2025 03:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Pack your bags cos bad apple's circling the globe! We're ready for our very first experience abroad and inviting all our international besties to come on the bad apple WORLD TOUR.

14.03.2025 03:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0