Pity Party began as a reading series in March of 2025; it is now a fledgling small press slinging anthologies and chaps like hot cakes. God bless Bushwick 🫡

For our second anthology, we opened submissions to any writers, whether they’ve read with Pity Party or not; and oh boy was that just incredible. Inside this anthology, you will find works by:

Paige Taggart

Rodrigo Toscano

James Fleet Underwood

Kyle Wong

Keana Aguila Labra

Katie Liao

Lyn Corelle

Purbasha Roy

Sophia Tone

Sylvia Vaccaro

Ellie Farrell

Shaindel Tomasovitch

Venya Gushchin

Laura Marie Marciano

Nadine Smith

K. Rejsek

Bud Smith

Noor Tannir

Bea Bacon

Liberty Brooke

Victor Jones

Amanda Deutch

Jeanie Ngo

Natalie Komissarova

Isabelle Pipa

Blush Bullseye

Avery Melhado

Natalie Raskin

Sarah Cummins

Nasta Martyn

Thank you for your support and keep on carrying on!

Cover Design: Zac Wilson

Editor: Sophie Ewh

Managing Editor: Yang Hao

Art Editor: Mary Elaine Lasley

Poetry Editor: Bea Bacon

Fiction Editor: Calley Nelson

Chapbook Editor: Shaindel Tomasovitch

Copyright © 2026 by the contributors.

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