MARCH WORKSHOP! We’ll be writing IN-PERSON with Benny Peterson on Sunday, March 15 at Rhizome DC 🧠🧠🧠

AWP is TWO WEEKS AWAY and it’s our first time 😏🍒 see where you can find us ⬇️

Our friends at @neonhemlock.bsky.social need help with funding! They’ve been putting out queer sci-fi bangers for years, and WHAT ELEGANT STARS will be killer. Give it a pre-order or commit to a higher tier if you’re able!

THAT’S A WRAP!!! We are CLOSED for submissions! Thanks so much to everyone who submitted, we more than doubled our numbers from last year 😱

We at LP love “normal” literature

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TOMORROW 2/7 AT 11:59 PM EST 📣📣📣

‼️Applications are open for the inaugural TJA Reporting Fellowship! Seven fellows will receive: 💰$5000 stipend over six months to offset reporting costs 👍🏾Dedicated mentorship and reporting guidance 🎯Targeted professional development Find out more info www.transjournalists.org/reporting-fe....

Loving Issue 01 of @lilacperil.bsky.social — “Taboo” 🔥

🕯️ ONE WEEK LEFT until submissions close for our next print anthology IDOLS 🕯️

four days left to get your applications in

WORKSHOPS ARE BACK, BABY 🫦 Writing For Trans Justice with KB Brookins Join us for a free, virtual workshop about how to write and pitch op-eds, and what op-eds can do for trans rights! Register here: Writing for Trans Justice with KB Brookins www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-fo...

Are you a trans writer of colour? Contribute to a new anthology of short stories dreamed up and written by trans people of colour. We will pay you a fee of £1000. Submissions are open now. https://form.jotform.com/253423694960060 Deadline: 8 Feb, 2026 Questions? Email: [email protected]

REMINDER! We are open for submissions until Feb. 7 for our next anthology, IDOLS. See our previous posts for more prompts, ideas, and manifestations about the theme 🥀

Thank you for the love for three of our TABOO contributors, @anemonebythesea.bsky.social @saoirsecl.bsky.social @asterolsen.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 email us [email protected] if you want PDFs of the stories

LET’S FUCKING GOOOO

🪽 @berenexia.website ❤️‍🔥

10. Pre-transition childhood is also the focus of Winona Meridian Marks’ hybrid poem-essay “Sackcloth Ashes Opals Pearls,” which explores how narrative opens possibilities and forecloses them. An urgent argument for trans lit & a strong closer for @lilacperil.bsky.social's first anth:

Submissions are OPEN for Issue 02: IDOLS! Send your best work on saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations to [email protected] until February 7 Full details in original post (linked below)

kith crit: cohort one kithbooks.com/crit

Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...! blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

One of the best things about putting out an anthology is seeing how different people resonate with different pieces ❤️‍🔥

Been slowly working through this collection of trans art assembled by @lilacperil.bsky.social and it's So Moving. Everyone should pick it up lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

Trans lit for the win! Yes, it's the first issue of LILAC PERIL, a new trans lit journal based in this nation's crooked capital, here's to more necessary trouble from @lilacperil.bsky.social🌺⚡🌠

Tonight!

Submissions have been open for a week and we’ve already got some cooooool stuff 😎 add yours to the pile!

ICYMI:

We’ll be at Dew Drop vending for Dyke the Halls next week! 🎁🎁🎁

SUBMIT HUMANS

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN, BABY Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS Send work to [email protected] until February 7 Expected pub: late 2026

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN, BABY Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS Send work to [email protected] until February 7 Expected pub: late 2026

btw submissions for the 2026 anthology will open very soon 👀

In a very literal sense, our work would not exist without @littlepuss.net 💘

We had so much fun at our workshops yesterday! Make sure to stop by Mattilda’s reading tonight <3

Also tomorrow!

Tomorrow!

Reminder that TRANSplants Zine Issue 4 is available for pre-order! This is a limited print run and if past Issues are a predictor, is likely to sell out <3. Really excited about this one! asterolsen.bigcartel.com/product/tran...

Yes, I'll be in DC to launch TERRY DACTYL at Politics & Prose on December 1, 7 pm, and the previous day I'll be doing this workshop where we write around the art, play with words in and out of context, and see what experiments emerge...💞

Coming up in ONE week, our workshop with @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social that we are so excited about ❤️‍🔥 But we didn’t stop there….

I’m speaking at this wonderful event at GMU on Thursday <3 watershedlit.gmu.edu/events/17561

I got my copy today (it came with a sticker!) And I know this is silly but I need it to be on goodreads lol so I submitted it to the goodreads librarians. I can't wait for work to be over so I can read! @lilacperil.bsky.social

The people are hungry for taboo

Yeah, I'm totally in that. *nonchalantly blows across the tips of her nails* 💅

Y’all should really read this collection.

To be read like this, as a baby press with many debut authors, is truly such a gift 🖤 See what all the fuss is about: lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

⭐⭐ @lilacperil.bsky.social's sophomore shortform collection TABOO isn't just one of the best books of 2025 - it's also a testament to the power of collective organizing in underground publishing. One of the best showcases of obscure talent and potential I've ever read.

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After hundreds of hours of reading and research, my 2025 Starter Guide to transfeminine literature is finally live! No matter your experience level, there's a book for you! 🏳️‍⚧️📚 #transbooks The list covers a vast range of genres. There are 78 handcrafted recs on this list, and I've read all but two.

Extremely kind thread by @thetransfemininereview.com on TABOO. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Consider buying a copy so we can keep making freaky trans books: lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

And that's a wrap! Absolutely phenomenal work from @lukejsuth.bsky.social @submorstua.bsky.social and everyone else involved in the collection. Oh right and thank you to Luke and Andrea for the review copy.