Feeling like you haven't read enough to vote in the 2025 TFR Awards? Here's a way you can still participate! The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷

Did you read a book by a transfemme in a language other than English this year? Comment them on this post! The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.

Alternatively - Friends who speak languages other than English, if you write me a skeet asking people to vote for Outstanding Foreign Language with books from your language, I will post and promote it.

Did you read a book by a transfemme in a language other than English this year? Comment them on this post! The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.

Reading Perverts 🩷

Thank you Bee. Means a lot

friends! this is a fantastic opportunity to read some amazing short stories and poetry, support some super talented authors, AND participate in the incredible community-building work of the transfeminine review ✨

Hey it chrimbus eve pls give me Christmas present

Feeling like you haven't read enough to vote in the 2025 TFR Awards? Here's a way you can still participate! The 60-hour Shortform Challenge asks YOU to read our 2025 short story and poem nominees, then vote on your three faves in each category! No other reading required 🩷

As I'm winding to the end of this book, I have to admit that this is the best piece of Aussie transfemme litfic I've read yet. It's ironic. I searched so damn hard for a book like this in the fall, and here it just falls in my lap! Anyway this is 100% my Aussie pick for the 2026 Start Here page.

As I'm winding to the end of this book, I have to admit that this is the best piece of Aussie transfemme litfic I've read yet. It's ironic. I searched so damn hard for a book like this in the fall, and here it just falls in my lap! Anyway this is 100% my Aussie pick for the 2026 Start Here page.

WE JUST PASSED LAST YEAR'S VOTE TOTAL 🥳🥳🥳🥳 I am so happy, this was my primary goal for the year and we've still got days to spare :))))

In a year overflowing with phenomenal debut novels, the Best Transfeminine Debut category is by far the most competitive Shortlist tonight. Congratulations to the eight novels that made the Shortlist, and the entire debbie class of 2025! Voting will remain open until December 26th at 11:59pm EST.

For our third shortlist of the day, we're celebrating four authors for excellence in transfeminine publishing this year! Congratulations to @taliabhatt.itch.io @magicariot.com @jeannethornton.bsky.social and @jemma.bsky.social! Voting for the TFR Awards is open until Dec. 26th at 11:59pm EST!

Today, TFR presents the six leading contenders shortlisted for the Best Transfeminine Nonfiction of 2025 award! The shortlist spans genres including feminist theory, biography, history, memoir, literary criticism, and zines. Vote now in the TFR Awards before Dec. 26th at 11:59pm EST!

Happy shortlist day! Today, TFR recognizes five excellent works of poetry for our Best Transfeminine Poetry 2025 award, as voted upon by our readers. Help us celebrate transfeminine literature! Voting ends on December 26th at 11:59pm EST, so there's still plenty of time to weigh in 🩷

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

Just a few days left to vote in the TFR awards! Did you vote in the Outstanding Individual Poem category? If you want some ideas, here's my personal longlist of my fave 20 transfeminine poems of 2025. Would love to hear your favorite 2025 poems (or your best work if you're a tf poet) in replies!

Lmao so Best Fiction is tied again. I would very much prefer not to have to tiebreak the top category for the second year in a row, so this is your reminder that voting ends in four days!!!

literally fuck anyone who doesn’t see at this point that it’s an organized nationwide effort to make trans people unemployable. every trans person they push out of public life is a win for them & a whole hell of a lot of cis people need to start stepping up and saying fuck off to freaks like this.

Indescribably satisfying to watch something you've poured hundreds of hours of work into succeed :3 Very very happy with how the Awards have gone. The final product is gonna be better than last year's, and that was always my goal from the start 🩷

Chat does anyone know if "I've Never Known a Man that Loved Me" by Aurora Mattia is a real short story, and if so, where it was published? I can't find this for the life of me.

Chat does anyone know if "I've Never Known a Man that Loved Me" by Aurora Mattia is a real short story, and if so, where it was published? I can't find this for the life of me.

Get hard copies. Especially of queer art, books, music, films. We’ve got to be archivists whether we want to be or not. I’m not going to see more things I love burn.

Alright we are BACK on the awards reading grind! This time with Geraldine by Aussie author Andrea Thompson, a novel that I have seen exactly nobody discuss. Shoutout to Fremantle Press for the review copy (though next time please don't forward me your internal communications 🥺)

Woodworking and A/S/L are hands down two of the greatest novels I've read this or any year!

We are just nine votes away from beating last year's ballot total! Can we hit that today? 👀

It's cool to be reading down an article of recent horror books going "Yes, ha ha ha YES" sickos style because they're all bangers and then stumble onto your own among them 🤩 A GAME IN YELLOW is in fantastic company here with BLACK FLAME, BAT EATER, and more 💛 bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3...

Four books. One grand prize. Five days left until voting ends. 2025 was the year of the transfeminine contemporary novel, and the four novels shortlisted for Best Transfeminine Fiction are leading the charge. If you haven't voted yet, now is the time. Voting closes Dec. 26th at 11:59pm EST 🩷

"Great writing can't be taught." Total bullshit. Writing is just as much of a teachable and learnable skill as playing an instrument or acting or painting. You don't have to have any prodigy to write a great book - just a strong work ethic, years of practice, and a willingness to innovate.

This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.

I really love this perspective - it's an angle I didn't pick up on in my reading. Strangely my captivation with Kidd's quasi-Austenian tone seems to dovetail with this. I can't read a Jane Austen book without thinking about the unspoken colonial implications - I suppose the tone matched there too.

Off to buy 3 of these right now!

Lmao so Best Fiction is tied again. I would very much prefer not to have to tiebreak the top category for the second year in a row, so this is your reminder that voting ends in four days!!!

*Griselda song plays* "CONDUCTOR!"

It might seem a bit late now, but if you have read any new transfem literature within the last year, please vote. You can leave as many categories blank as you need. Or, if you're looking for a Xmas challenge, read through the books on one of the shortlists, and vote on that!

WELL i guess i have no excuse to not read stag dance

Very glad to see on this shortlist several books/authors that I was worried might be overlooked: 🔸️Autumnal Conductor - @strigarosa.bsky.social 🔸️Keeping the Peace - @trishusband.itch.io 🔸️Flower of the Underworld - @ciricegray.itch.io 🔸️The Zeus Constant - @callistokhan.bsky.social Still time to vote!

Oh what the fuck, nice :D

Tremendous that @jemma.bsky.social is the only selfpub author on here. Go Jemma go!

<333 honored

YES @jemmastl.bsky.social @taliabhatt.itch.io bsky.app/profile/thet...

Let's goooo @callistokhan.bsky.social @ciricegray.itch.io @tristanacooper.bsky.social

kith crit: cohort one let's get into the weeds

Have read all of these, and it's an honor to be part of such a great shortlist. They are all worth your time!!

#DecemberTransReadathon day 20 - it’s been a turbulent week, but I’m still making slow & enjoyable progress with Drag King Dreams.

#DecemberTransReadathon I have caught up with Dorley! No more cliffhangers to conquer!! Today I'm reading "Under Stagelights" by @transcect.bsky.social

Day 21 of #DecemberTransReadathon Valerin the Fair by @riengray.bsky.social This is probably the most capital E, capital A Erotic Art book I've ever read. It's the first in a series of "sapphic Arthuriana", and it very much has the feel of mythology.

Four books. One grand prize. Five days left until voting ends. 2025 was the year of the transfeminine contemporary novel, and the four novels shortlisted for Best Transfeminine Fiction are leading the charge. If you haven't voted yet, now is the time. Voting closes Dec. 26th at 11:59pm EST 🩷

Thanks everyone who voted for KTP for getting it on the shortlist! Theres still time to vote and make me the happiest girl in the world :3