Colby Flade
Founder & Editor in Chief @theflade on Instagram Colby Flade (he/him) is a queer writer, artist, avid drinker of coffee, and student based in the Midwest. He is the author of The Smell of the Light Blue House in Summertime (2021), Menthol (2022), Short Sweet Simple: Love Poems (Bottlecap Press, 2022), The Fly & Odor (Beyond Words Literary, 2023), and It’s a Blue, Blue World (2024).
His poetry & visual art pieces have appeared/are forthcoming in The Oyez Review, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Beyond Queer Words, Wild Roof Journal, Drunk Monkeys, The Bookends Review, The Closed Eye Open, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Half and One, Get Griefy Magazine, and elsewhere. Flade is also the Founder & Editor in Chief of Blue World Literary Journal. @blueworldliterary on Instagram.
In addition to working full-time in the field of Human Services, he is also an editor at Beyond Words Literary Magazine (based in Berlin). Flade can be found on Instagram @theflade and at theflade.com & blueworldliterary.weebly.com |
Blue World Literary Journal publishes multiple forms of literature, including poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Writers are welcome to submit whatever they would like as it relates to the theme of a piece; however, we are particularly interested in themes relating to grief, nature, winter, life, death, love, humanity, and hope.
Founded in November of 2023 by Colby Flade, Blue World Lit seeks writers of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Submissions are currently open for Issue Three (poetry only)! |
