Sossity Writes

Sossity is constantly working on new projects, including: chapbooks of poetry and prose, creative non-fiction essays, articles, and song spells as half of the duo Sparkle & truth. 

Books 

• bouquet of thorny rose, 2025
• Honey & Vinegar: Recipe for an Outlaw, 2019 
• Stir the Juice - erotic poetry chapbook, 2013 

CD 

• Hand to Mouth - poetry CD, 2012 (sample) 

Anthologies and Journals 

• LOUD & QUEER 20: Queer with Disabilities, August 2024
• “Lineage” - HNDL, April 2024
• “Intersectional Accessibility: Creating Inclusive Spaces” - Library Journal, March 2024
• “Meat truths”, and “Distanced” - Wishbone Words, March 2023
•  “An Ethical Imperative”: Expanding Accessibility in Libraries at NC State - Library Journal, February 2023
• “Disability in Publishing Launches with Virtual Town Hall” - Library Journal, September 2022
• “Lessons I’m learning From My Garden” - Poetry Moves (a program of Artstra in collaboration with C-Tran,) September 2022 
• Disorderly in Conduct - Untitled Voices, April 2022
• “Public Libraries Tackle Telehealth Challenges” - Library Journal, February 2022
• “Disabled Characters: Avoiding the Tragedy or Inspiration Binary” - Writing Diversely, January 2022
• “Rock out, stuck in” - Rogue Agent, October 2021
• "Tangled" - All My Relations, August 2021
• “Making a home of knowing” - Pulp Magazine, May 2021
• Erato: Flash Fiction, published by New Smut Project,  October 2020
• “Flesh poetry”, “Proud shadows”, “Multiplied”, and “Self care” - The Impossible Beast: Poems of Queer Eroticism, published by Damaged Goods Press,  September 2020
• “Describing is almost like understanding” - Vox Viola, May 2020
•  “Salt sharpened” - The Rumpus (Enough series), May 2020
• “Leaving the House: On Chronic Pain and Mourning the Body” - Pulp, March 2020
• "The Privilege and Power of Firing Your Doctor" - Salty, February 2020 
• "Luxury Bones" - Rooted In Rights, November 2019 
• "Never so simple" - Stirring: A Literary Collection, Summer 2019 Vol. 21 Ed. 3 
• "Named" - Petrichor Audio Magazine, June 2019 
• "Wanting so closely" - Shades of Pride: LGBTQAI2+ Anthology - published by TL;DR Press, June 2019 
• "Lessons I learned from my garden" - Unchaste Readers Series: Volume 3 - edited by Jenny Forrester, published by Scout Books, April 2019
• "Your name crunches in my mouth like gravel" and "Disorderly in conduct" - Gertrude Press, Issue 28 (excerpt from Gut Instincts,  2018 Creative Non-Fiction Chapbook Runner Up), January 2019
• " My gender in 3 parts", "Until I cry", "Magic formulas scrawled under cover of night", and "On staying in, again" - Flannel Magazine, January 2019
• "Conditional Love" - Argot Magazine, December 2018
• "Outlaw linguistics" and "Of Moonlight and roses and mammals" - Crab Fat, October 2018
• "  When I try to describe my beau and can only paint ideograms of love" - Impossible Archetype, Issue 4
• "Gut Instincts" - Argot Magazine, August 2018
• "Where light and space are equal to mass and gravity" - Subprimal, Issue 11
• "Family Knots" - Eunoia Review, April 2018
• "Cinderfella" - Leather Ever After - edited by Sassafras Lowery, published by Circlet Press
• "Commerce" - Unchaste Readers Series: Volume 2 - edited by Jenny Forrester, published by Scout Books
• "In the red" - F(r)iction, Volume 9
• "Survival skills"-  Plumplandia, Issues 1 & 3
• "Balance" - great weather for MEDIA anthology-The Other Side of Violet
• "Mapping Coordinates of of Poor, Queer, and Feminine in the High Desert Air" - Lunch Ticket, Summer/Fall 2017 Edition (excerpt from the memoir Honey & Vinegar: Recipe for an Outlaw)
• "Intent" - Rogue Agent, Issue 27
• "When Politics are Thicker Than Blood" Not My President anthology, from Thoughtcrime Press
• "Love Note to Femmes, Including Myself" - TQ Review: A journal of Trans/Queer Voices, Issue 2
• "Change The Station" - Zine Trio Anthology, from Ladybox Books
• "Broke Bodies" - Love Me, Love My Belly - Body Positive Zine, Issue 3, from Porkbelly Press
•  “DIY Pervertables: Where Is The Rope And Chain Aisle Please?” - Harlot Magazine, July 2016
• "Beauty" - Vitality. April, 2016
• "Numbers have teeth" - Unchaste Readers Series: Volume 1 - edited by Jenny Forrester, published by Scout Books
• "The Bone Dance" - Procyon Science Fiction Anthology 2016 - edited by Jeanne Thorton
• "Road Trip" - Emerge: 2015 Lambda Fellows Anthology - edited by Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela, published by Lambda Literary, (excerpt from the memoir Honey & Vinegar: Recipe for an Outlaw)
• "Listen" - The Remedy: Queer And Trans Voices On Health And Health Care (Lambda Literary Award Winner 2017) - edited by Zena Sharman, published by Arsenal Pulp Press
• "Make Them Shine" - Best Lesbian Erotica 20th Anniversary Edition - edited by Sacchi Green, published by Cleis Press
• "Survival Skills" and "Spelling of My Name" - Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy (Lambda Literary Award Winner 2016) - edited by Damien Luxe, Heather María Ács & Sabina Ibarrola, published by Publication Studio
• "Wanting so Closely" - NANO fiction, Volume 9, Number 2
• "Grannie" - Transcendence Magazine, Issue 2
• "Named" - Mash Stories (taking 2nd place in the 4th competition)
• "Research" and "Summer of 16" - Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Issue 12, (excerpt from the memoir Honey & Vinegar: Recipe for an Outlaw)
• "  Daydreaming", "Ozone" - Literary Sexts, Volume 2
• "Chamber in my heart" - Atlas and Alice, Issue 3
• " Road Map", "Hiding From The Moon", and "Flesh Poetry" - The Outrider Review, Volume 1, Issue 3
• "Salted Caramel", "Learning Curve", "Drunk on Desire", "Bodies Don't Play Fair", and "Outlaw" - Adrienne Journal, Issue 2
• "Divinity" - Wilde Magazine, Fall 2013 Issue, and Summer 2014 Erotica Issue
• "Learning Curve" - nin, Volume I: Issue I
• Salacious Magazine, Volume 2
• "Magnetic fields" and "Whore" - Body Heat: The Queer Femme Porn Tour Zine
• "Gentleman Caller" - Say Please - edited by Sinclair Sexsmith, published by Cleis Press
• "Worshipping" - Bitch Goddess - edited by Pat Califia
• "And I called her boy" - The Second Coming, edited by Pat Califia

Embody - column at PQ Monthly (2015-2017)

• “Sacred sexual deviance” (November, 2017)
• “What are you proud of?” (June, 2017)
• “It takes a queer village” (May, 2017)
• “How are you doing?” (April, 2017)
• “Your existence is part of the resistance” (February, 2017)
• “The truth of many parts” (January, 2017)
• “Where my hope is rooted” (December, 2016)
• “When politics are thicker than blood” (November, 2016)
• “In the small hours of the morning” (October, 2016)
• “We need to learn” (September, 2016)
• “Self care community share” (August, 2016)
• “In case of emergency” (June, 2016)
• “Digital divide” (May, 2016)
• “The gift of service” (April, 2016)
• “Love note to femmes, including myself” (February, 2016)
• “Who are the queer elders at your table” (January, 2016)
• “Re/Creating traditions” (November, 2015)
• “Broke bodies” (October, 2015)
• “The cost of geography” (September, 2015)
• “The danger of being nice” (August, 2015)
• “The right to bare arms” (July, 2015)
• “Family knots” (June, 2015)
• “Radical relationships” (April, 2015)
• “Other people’s sex” (March, 2015)
• “Get what you need” (February, 2015)
• “Good positions for bad backs” (January, 2015)

Feature articles and blog posts at PQ Monthly (2015-2017)

• “Put your politics where your kink is” (November, 2017)
• “Coming Together To Prepare: What It Means To Create A Legal ID Paperwork Clinic” (December, 2016)
• “Flamingo Rampant LGBT2Q Children’s Books: The Gift You Can Give The World!” (December blog, 2016)
• “Post Election: Getting Organized And Moving Forward With The Q Center” (November, 2016)
• “Sankofa Collective NW: On Splitting From PFLAG, QTPOC Centered Organizing, And The Patterns Of Privilege” (September, 2016)
• “SAGE: Advocacy, Community and Resources for LGBT Elders” (September, 2016)
• “Rosehip Medic Collective: Taking Health Care To The Streets” (August, 2016)
• “Dirty River: A Queer Femme Of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Part Two” (June, 2016)
• “Dirty River: A Queer Femme Of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, Part One” (May, 2016)
• “Local Writer, Kate Carroll De Gutes Wins Oregon Book Award, Is Nominated For A Lammy” (May blog, 2016)
• “Candye Kane: The Toughest Tenderest Superhero” (May blog, 2016)
• “Queer Masculinity Embracing It’s Feminist Side: An Interview With The Turnback Boyz Part Two” (March, 2016)
• “Queer Masculinity Embracing It’s Feminist Side: An Interview With The Turnback Boyz” (February, 2016)
• “When A Dirty Queer Deviates - Long Time Open Mic Changes Format” (December, 2015)
• “Getting Mental Health Support Shouldn’t Have To Be Edge Play; Find A Therapist Who Gets You In The SMPD” (November, 2015)
• “The Equi Institute Partners With The Q Center!" (September, 2015)
• “Tender Places: Inside Story” (sex advice column, trial run, May 2015)