Editorial Notes / Content Warnings
Participating Publications / Anthology Finalists
- “girl, possessed!” by Tara Labovich, Dishsoap Quarterly
- “Self-Made Solution” by Connor, Bleating Thing Magazine
- “I’ll Be Waiting” by Ani King, Peatsmoke Journal
- “Anaphora” by Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, Dishsoap Quarterly
- “wilderness survival” by Jennessa Hester, petrichor
- “Unfinished Tree” by Kyrico, Artists from Maryland
- “The American Eel” by Mark Spero, Palette Poetry
- “the year of lost limbs” by Liam Strong, Gone Lawn
- “Garden Sonnet” by Annalisa Hansford, petrichor
- “游人 The Wanderer” by Cela Xiè, Tab Journal
- “If a + b = c, then a transmasc wearing women’s pants = ???” by Maddox Emory Arnold, Genrepunk Magazine
- “matrimonio // sacrificio” by a.d., Bleating Thing Magazine
- “My Body Is an Archive of” by Han VanderHart, Asterales
- “At Lake Merritt I’m wearing a hoodie with nothing under it” by Jackson D. Moorman, Shō Poetry Journal
- “You Can Be Naked In Your Own House” by Gion Davis, Frozen Sea
- “Quadriptych of an Open Relationship” by J. L. Bermúdez, Chestnut Review
- “Bon Holiday” by Jules Kennedy, #EnbyLife Journal
- “Gender study; gestalt” by KT Herr, Ran Off With the Star Bassoon
- “Man Spelt Backwards” by Chi Pham, SmokeLong Quarterly
- “Interview” by January Santoso, Chestnut Review
- “Scrabble Poems” by Erin Dorney, DIAGRAM
- “sanctimonious” by K.M. Hanslik, Bleating Thing Magazine
- “Love Letter Explaining Trauma to a New Lover” by Ashley Steineger, Ran Off With the Star Bassoon
- “Best Western” by C Ray Borck, SmokeLong Quarterly
- “Ghost in the Shell” by Holly Lyn Walrath, Radon Journal
- “Grief is the Raven” by Steven Sanchez, Glass
- “Rejoice in His Name” by Finnian Burnett, Geist
- “Memory Pop” by Cristina Sanchez, Libre
- “Transgender Stat Block” by William Roberds-King, Genrepunk Magazine
- “Blasphemy Baby” by K. Mobley, Chestnut Review
- “worm girlfriend reprise” by Katy Haas, MEMEZINE
- “Winter Solstice” by Olivia Lehman, Glass
- “We’ve got war to cover” by Dante Fuoco, Split Lip Magazine
- “Girl Cousins, Pixelated” by Ranudi Gunawardena, Shō Poetry Journal
- “the new testament” by Michael Agunbiade, Variant Literature
- “The Poem Formerly Known as the Poem Formerly Known as Stupid” by Gordon Taylor, Palette Poetry
- “Mother Remove This Cup From Me”* by Elena Sichrovsky, Bleating Thing Magazine
* MONARCH 2026 cover art