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.

very curious to check this out, love this continuance of the visual language of "between revolutions" so much, i love that folks are so often in conversation with it 💘

Can you believe this was @saoirsecl.bsky.social first publication?? We couldn’t!

I'm absolutely loving this experimental prose from @moonyeka.bsky.social 👀

I love underground trans publishibg

@anemonebythesea.bsky.social wrote a total knock out 💥💥💥

NOVEMBER WORKSHOP with @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Sun, Nov 30 at 10 am at Rhizome DC Writers of all experience levels are welcome to join. We want you here even if you’ve never attended a workshop before! www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...

T O D A Y! peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/crawl/

year one vs. year two photos are always the most dramatic

LONG LIVE LILAC PERIL

We had sooo much fun at our workshop with @maxdelsohn.bsky.social yesterday!! Don’t miss him while he’s in town on 10/29 peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/crawl/

Side by side of our first book (out of print) and TABOO. She’s big!! Order your copy 💋 lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

DC, show up!!!