WORLD'S END FEAST

WHAT GETS LEFT OVER

Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. With over two dozen publications in print and online, she has also published two chapbooks, and was nominated for a Pushcart Best of the Net Prize in 2022. She worked previously as an editor at Hecate Magazine, Wrong Publishing, the Jupiter Review, and Longleaf Review. Auzin was awarded an Outpost Foundation residency in 2023. More of her work can be found at byauzin.com.

general bio

Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. With over two dozen publications, she has also published two chapbooks, and was nominated for a Pushcart Best of the Net Prize in 2022. Auzin was awarded an Outpost Foundation residency in 2023. More of her work can be found at byauzin.com.

50-word bio

Dear editors,

Thank you for considering this piece for publication at Five on the Fifth. This is a simultaneous submission and if accepted, I publish work under my first name only. The word count of this piece is 860.

Bio: Auzin is a writer from the Pacific Northwest. With over two dozen publications, she has also published two chapbooks, and was nominated for a Pushcart Best of the Net Prize in 2022. Auzin was awarded an Outpost Foundation residency in 2023. More of her work can be found at byauzin.com.

Warm regards,
Auzin Ahmadi (she/her)

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NSFW cover letter

My Hugo House Story

When Olive was nervous, she removed parts of her body. Eyelashes, dead skin, blackheads. Hangnails, bitten off. Chin hairs, plucked out. Nothing anyone would miss. 

The Most Beautiful Thing In The World

Nominated for Best of the Net!

"You are bruised fruit all the same, a soft place for the flies to sink their feet into. You are infinitely compostable."

A Hand Hitting A Face, Three Ways

Why “More Is More” Is an Underrated Tactic for Getting Your First Publication

Uncommon Advice for Unpublished Writers

"saffronic aromas wander my apartment for nobody // nobody here to show me the difference between standards and stereotypes"

my mother teaches me how to make khoresh-e karafs over Facetime

"freshborn skin crawls over eyesockets 
muscle unspools from novel orifice 
& creamy bone spurs ride my skull"

copper blood / silicon veins

"Taxidermy — the only word I have for this."

What Gets Left Over

"We tried to warn him – the meat was still alive."

The Meat

"The chained tree was murdered. I came home from 7th grade one day and it was gone—not even a stump remained, only churned topsoil."

The Chained Tree

"I want back the tenderness and joy I felt on the day I got my fallopian tubes removed. I want to hold myself like a soft fluffy thing again. Skin clamped down by faith and black polymer."

A More Private Pain

"i had to seduce myself first           the rest came
afterwards"

biorythms

"There are reasons for all of my frailties and foibles 
There are so many selves under this skin"

New Animal

"If only I could keep her pressed between these pages like rosepetals, a notebook tossed in the bathtub, bleeding black threads."

Auzin

Books

Selected work