ALOCASIA

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ALOCASIA: a bi-monthly online journal of queer plant-based writing EIC: @sarahclark.bsky.social 💌 🌱🌱🌱 ALOCASIA.org

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ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· 21h

Congratulations to ALOCASIA's @sundresspub.bsky.social @bestofthenet.bsky.social Best of the Net nominees in poetry for 2027! June Beck Aaron El Sabrout Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey Anangookwe Wolf Alice Agro-Paulson arushi (aera) rege Read their work at alocasia.org

Green leaves on a white background with text that reads 2027 Best of the Net poetry nominees.

June Beck
Aaron El Sabrout
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
Anangookwe Wolf
Alice Agro-Paulson
arushi (aera) rege

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· 21h

Congratulations to ALOCASIA's @sundresspub.bsky.social @bestofthenet.bsky.social Best of the Net nominees in prose for 2027! Shantal Jeewon Kim Morgan Swank Read their work at alocasia.org

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Shantal Jeewon Kim
Morgan Swank

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· 1d

ALOCASIA #20 is here w a new special issue featuring nature writing on intimate partner violence. Please take care in reading. w/ Sreeja Naskar, Winter Doe, Sadee Bee, Shaawan Francis Keahna, Toya L. Walker, Rituja Patil, Rukman Ragas, Lex Lanza, Alexia Cousineau, and B.B.P. Hosmillo ALOCASIA.org

Alocasia leaf background. White text reads "Thorns: nature writing on partner violence."

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· 12d

Last day to apply! ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...

Orchid on white background. Text reads: the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. $500 award for two writers

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Jun 23

ALOCASIA #19 is here w queer planty writing as summer swells! ft./ Alice Agro-Paulson, Matthew Dawkins, Morgan Swank, Molli Spalter, Stephanie Sundermann-Zinger, Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey, jun uchuya, Rebecca Hawkes, Phoenix Tian, Cecilia Vaz Eller, & Ira Thorpe Huff ALOCASIA.org

Green alocasia leaves with white text that reads "issue 19."

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Jun 17

Little over a month to apply! ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. More: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Jun 17

"you're holding an orchid in your palms. this book is made of orchids. lucky you, you are holding the ass of the orchid, go ahead smack it, you can." —nawa angel alviar horton alocasia.org/2026/04/22/n...

A Filipino person pressing magenta painted lips around an orchid flower into plastic, their hands on either side

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Jun 9

Free tickets are now available for the fourth installation of the ALOCASIA Summer Creative Writing Workshop Series, led in August by Aerik Francis! RSVP on Eventbrite to reserve your spot! www.eventbrite.com/e/alocasia-p...

Aerik Francis & ALOCASIA present

TOOL//SHED: Queering Digital EcoPoetry

Aug 22 3pm EST FREE Virtual on Zoom

TOOL//SHED: QUEERING DIGITAL ECOPOETRY aims to closely examine the complex relationships among queerness, technology, and nature through poetry. What would it mean to reckon with technology until it ceases? How do we go about writing ecopoetry that is also attuned to the place/presence/development of technology, a concept that has been position not only counter to "nature" but to actively in practice pollute and destroy "nature?"

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Jun 9

Free tickets are now available for the third installation of the ALOCASIA Summer Creative Writing Workshop Series, led in July by Seelai Karzai! RSVP on Eventbrite to reserve your spot! www.eventbrite.com/e/postapocal...

Seelai Karzai and ALOCASIA present Postapocalyptic Beings at the Beginning of the World, a poetry writing workshop. July 18th at 3pm, Free, Virtual on Zoom.

What can forests, swamps, grasslands, and wildlife inhabiting the earth show us about surviving exile, displacement, rootlessness, and the persistence of being? We will read and discuss a variety of poems by Franny Choi, Ross Gay, Rajiv Mohabir, and others. In this generative writing workshop, we will also have guided poetry prompts inspired by examples from our reading selections and quiet writing time to produce new poems that map out our postapocalyptic psyches.

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ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· May 8

Don't miss out on the second installation of the ALOCASIA Summer Creative Writing Workshop Series, led in June by the brilliant EJ Haley! RSVP on Eventbrite to reserve your free ticket! eventbrite.com/e/1987718667...

Venus flytrap background. EJ Haley and ALOCASIA present Strange Hungers: Queering Desire through Carnivorous Plants. June 13 at 3pm EST. Free, virtual on Zoom. This cross-genre generative workshop will invite participants to examine their hungers through the lens of carnivorous plants. Drawing from the works of Kimiko Hahn and A.L. Goldfuss, as well as the care and maintenance of these unique plants, this workshop asks the participant to engage with their hungers, map their desires, and leap forward—unafraid—into strange territories. All genres welcome.

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· May 8

We're *shortening* the deadline for our EcoFutures issue because of a deluge of amazing work. We're sorry for the confusion, but still hope to read your best! New deadline: 6/6. ALOCASIA is now seeking new unpublished queer creative writing for our upcoming issue. Pays $50. Absolutely no AI.

ALOCASIA'S EcoFutures Issue. Deadline 11/11. ALOCASIA.org. computery futurey background.

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· May 7

ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026.

Wet monstera. The ALOCASIA microgrant for queer writers.

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 28

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 27

ALOCASIA is now seeking new unpublished queer creative writing for our upcoming EcoFutures issue, to be published December 2026. Deadline: 11/11. Pays $50. Absolutely no AI. www.ALOCASIA.org

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 22

ALOCASIA #18 is here w/ queer planty writing as spring sings! w/ Daniel Cartwright-Chaouki, nawa angel alviar horton, Logan Elizabeth Craig, Jodie Whitchurch, Matty Layne Glasgow, Shantell Powell, Shantal Jeewon Kim, KB, Blue Đào Nguyễn, & Gospel Chinedu ALOCASIA.org

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ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 21

Tickets are now available for the first and second installations of the ALOCASIA Summer Creative Writing Workshop Series, led in May by Ashely Adams, and in June by EJ Haley! RSVP on Eventbrite to reserve your free tickets! www.eventbrite.com/e/strange-hu...

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 15

So so thrilled to announce the first installation of the ALOCASIA Summer Creative Writing Workshop Series, led in May by Ashely Adams! RSVP on Eventbrite to reserve your free ticket! www.eventbrite.com/e/1987567638...

Oil spill painting in the background. Text reads Ashely Adams and ALOCASIA present Killing the Planet: Writing the Sixth Mass Extinction. May 16 at 6pm EST, Free, Virtual on Zoom. ALOCASIA.org. How do we articulate the devastation caused by ongoing environmental violence? How do we mourn the lives of billions of creatures lost solely for temporary profit? How can we grieve the futures that will not be while creating a new world worth fighting for? Killing the Planet: Writing the Sixth Mass Extinction is a generative writing workshop that gives writers a framework for braiding ecological disaster into personal narratives. Writers will be invited to be witnesses to extinctions great and small and imagine how we might pull ourselves away from the edge of collapse.

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 12

ALOCASIA is now seeking new unpublished queer creative writing for our upcoming EcoFutures issue, to be published December 2026. Deadline: 11/11. Pays $50. Absolutely no AI. www.ALOCASIA.org

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 10

Today's the last day to send in work for ALOCASIA's THORNS issue! We're seeking work for an upcoming themed issue examining lived experiences of queer domestic violence, partner violence, and sexual assault through the lens of horticulture and plant life alocasia.org/about-send-w...

Black and white distressed picture of roses with the words: Thorns. Presented by Alocasia. Deadline, April 10th, 2026.

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 6

5 days left to send in work for ALOCASIA's THORNS issue! We're seeking work for an upcoming themed issue examining lived experiences of queer domestic violence, partner violence, and sexual assault through the lens of horticulture and plant life. alocasia.org/about-send-w...

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 4

One week left to send in work for ALOCASIA's THORNS issue! We're seeking work for an upcoming themed issue examining lived experiences of queer domestic violence, partner violence, and sexual assault through the lens of horticulture and plant life. alocasia.org/about-send-w...

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Apr 1

10 days left to send in work for ALOCASIA's THORNS issue! We're seeking work for an upcoming themed issue examining lived experiences of queer domestic violence, partner violence, and sexual assault through the lens of horticulture and plant life. alocasia.org/about-send-w...

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Mar 14

We're seeking work for an upcoming themed issue, THORNS, which will examine lived experiences of queer domestic violence, partner violence, and sexual assault through the lens of horticulture and plant life. Please send no more than 6 poems or 3 pieces of prose by April 10th. More: alocasia.org

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Mar 9

Announcing our 2026 Best New Poets nominees! June Beck, "A text message to a New York Navajo" alocasia.org/2025/08/15/j... * Aaron El Sabrout, "Late in the Fall" alocasia.org/2026/02/15/a...

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Feb 18

ALOCASIA seeks applications for instructors to lead our upcoming Summer Creative Writing Series. Instructors will each lead a one-time Zoom workshop with dates between May and August. Compensation is $500.

Green background with sparkles and a chain of daisies. Text reads: ALOCASIA seeks creative writing workshop leaders! Deadline: March 10th

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Feb 15

ALOCASIA #17 is here w/ queer planty writing as winter writhes into spring! w/ Christopher Phelps, Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Adrian Dallas Frandle, Erin Mizrahi, Nikki Wallschlaeger, wallamide, Zoe Adrien Lapa, Tara Labovich, oleg olizev, & Aaron El Sabrout alocasia.org

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ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Feb 15

ALOCASIA seeks work for an upcoming themed issue, THORNS, which will examine and reflect on lived experiences of queer domestic violence and intimate partner violence through the lens of horticulture and plant life. Published writers to receive $50. Deadline: April 10. Find out more: ALOCASIA.org

Black and white roses and thorns. Text reads: THORNS. Presented by ALOCASIA. Deadline: April 10th, 2026.

ALOCASIA@alocasiamag· Feb 11

ALOCASIA: 99 queer writers on plants and nature, is out now! Our w/ Amazon and with Barnes & Noble! This collection is part love song and part howl, delving into everything from the shackles of capitalism and imperialism, to lost loves, to just what was going on with that sus ex.