Writing

Aaron has published poetry and short fiction in a number of literary journals and anthologies. He has also self published two zines and a visual novel. He is a poetry editor at House Journal.
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LITERARY POSITIONS & RESIDENCIES
Juror - New Brunswick Arts Council
2023
Poetry Editor - House Journal
2021-2022
Layout Designer - T! Zine
2022
https://tthezine.itch.io
Art & Tarot Co-Moderator - This Card Means Death Zine
2022
Fellow - Obsidian Foundation
December 2020
GAMES
ZINES AND COMICS
Thinking About It ... (A Queer Erotic Coloring Book)
October 2023
https://toreachpoise.itch.io/thinking-about-it (sexual content)
Various Mini Zines
2021-2024
https://toreachpoise.itch.io/zine-comp
Lunar Phase Webcomic
Ongoing from 2020
http://lunar-phase.the-comic.org
When I Get A Boy Chest I Hope It Has Perky Nipples
Mar. 2020
http://gum.co/boy_chest
Migration Routes
Jan. 2019
http://gum.co/migration_routes
ANTHOLOGIES
World Beyond our Station Anthology
2022
Featured Pieces: ““Transit of Venus,” “Kitab el Jasmiyya”
https://worldbeyondzine.bigcartel.com/
We Want it All: A Radical Anthology of Trans Poetics— Nightboat
2020
Featured piece: “King Krule & Mexican Street Sounds & Medicine Tea.”
Serendipity — Black Lesbian Literary Collective
September 30, 2019
Featured piece: “A Manifestation.”
Halal if You Hear Me — The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3
April 2019, Haymarket Books
Featured piece: “Dias/Phoria Suite.”
PUBLICATIONS
The Oakland Review - “Hilal (First Crescent)”
Forthcoming
T! The Zine - “Building the Fire”
Vol. 1 Issue 2 (Nov. 2023)
https://tthezine.itch.io/t-vol1-issue2
The Hopper - “Fairy Bells”
Summer 2023
http://www.hoppermag.org/fairy-bells
Winner of the Pushcart Poetry Prize
T! The Zine - “Why I Don’t Take (Pharma) Testosterone”
Vol. 1 Issue 1 (Feb. 2023)
https://tthezine.itch.io/t-vol1-issue1
Optopia Zine - “A Corn Harvest Dance,” “Dry Season”
(Forthcoming)
About Place Journal - “To the Berries I Threw In the Landfill”
Navigations Issue (May 2022)
https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/navigations-a-place-for-peace/reckonings/aaron-r-el-sabrout/
Magma - “Rosetta Stone”
M82 (Spring 2022)
Zone 3 - “A Thousand Plateaus”
Forthcoming
Poetry Daily - “King Krule” (reprint)
Nov 2021
https://poems.com/poem/king-krule-mexican-street-sounds-medicine-tea/
The Fiddlehead - “Body”
Fall 2021
https://thefiddlehead.ca/issue/289
Obsidian: Literature & Arts In the African Diaspora - “How to Make Tea,” “Hotep the
Barber”
Issue 47.1 (2021)
https://obsidianlit.org/47-1-toc/
Tentacular Literary Magazine - “Hermaphroditus”
Issue 8 - Summer 2021
https://www.tentacularmag.com/issue-8-a/aaron-el-sabrout
Santa Fe Writers Project - “Ohkay Owingeh,” “Ferry Boy,” “Old Man Relative Say”
Issue 25 - Spring 2021
CV2: The Canadian Journal of Contemporary Verse and Critical Writing - “A Man, A Man, A
Man, A Man”
Issue 43:2 - Spring 2021
Dryland - “Navigant,” “Wildfire”
Issue 10 - Sept. 2020
Nominated for Pushcart Poetry Prize
Mutiny! Lit Mag — “Body”
Issue 3 - Summer 2020
Transcend.Horizons, Transcend Lit. Mag. — “Baraka”
2019
[peculiar], Lesbian Literary Collective — “In A Conference Room on a Saturday”
Spring 2020
Borderlands, Texas Poetry Review — “PA Turnpike”
Spring 2020
Francis House, Room 6 — “A Manifestation”
Oct. 2019
https://francis.house/manifestation.html
Mud Season Review, The Take — “King Krule & Mexican Street Sounds & Medicine Tea”
Sept. 2019
http://mudseasonreview.com/fall-2019/
Split Lip, Vol. 2 — “Archaeopterix”
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