Late, but it’s still #FridayReads time! Let’s share some books. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing this one because it’s incredibly timely. Again. Hate what’s going on? Read this. Trust me. Now share what you love! www.amazon.com/Coyote-Songs...

abolish ICE abolish the police force. no cops no borders.

Get THIS WRETCHED VALLEY for less than the cost of a coffee AND support indie bookstores! Ebook is $2.99 everywhere but especially on Bookshop, which supports indie stores. bookshop.org/p/books/this...

i loved the first never whistle at night, helped me discover some new authors to check out. im super stoked for round two!!

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

everyone really really must read CUCKOO its heartrending-ly good

Have you picked up COUP DE GRÂCE by @sofiaajram.bsky.social yet? 🚂 A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station. Now out in paperback. 🖤 Grab a copy now: https://tinyurl.com/2xewpf3e

The Submissions window for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is open for another three weeks! Get all the deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...

What's left to say? May everyone involved in dropping bombs on Venezuela be punished swiftly and finally in pursuit of a just society and a lasting architecture of peace.

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i had such a great time with Transmuted (and I have ordered Chasers!!), everyone should read these ASAP

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...

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last day to submit! we would love to see you there!

Winter is the perfect time to read Feed Them Silence and feel, like, so extremely bad bookshop.org/p/books/feed...

so suprised & happy to announce that Bloodletter Magazine nominated this essay for the Pushcart Award ♡

I have started an urgent gfm for my partner and friend Charisma and Robin. Please consider supporting them as they face financial hardship and housing insecurity! gofund.me/21cc825a8 @cyberpunk.dog @habariqueenby.bsky.social

As you’re doing holiday shopping, consider Amplitudes! I’m proud of this project, and all our contributors—folks from more than 6 countries, each bringing unique perspectives and stories about queer/trans futurity, community, and survival even or especially through difficult times—did amazing work.

Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online. 🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines 🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

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Psst you dont have to be a conventional scholar to participate--the Queer Horror Conference also accepts presentations from artists and other creative practitioners, as well as grads, undergrads, independent scholars, and established faculty.

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If they took these off the list, what’s left? These are the main ones

It's that time... consider submitting to the Queer Horror Conference 2026 ! The call for papers is up now--it was so fun and generative last year, I would love to see all of you here this year! The conference is completely virtual, Feb 5-8th 2026 ♡ www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-pap...

🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥 YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Art by @mxmorgan.com All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...

Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...

THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW! "A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book" - Christopher Buehlman "A hallucinatory scorpion sting" - Elizabeth Bear "My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that." - My barber Get your copy from your local bookstore!

LEECH by @hironennes.bsky.social is the post-post-post-apocalyptic sci-fi gothic the world needs. Set in a bitter north with a scalpel's attention to bodies, this is a book I wish I could read for the first time again. Our drink, the Institute, bites back as you sip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21b...

“This thing is definitely bad for us but no one can say what it is”

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These things feel so awkward to post, but I genuinely like seeing other people sharing their work from this year, so I'll hop aboard the train of awards eligibility posts.

such a big honor to have this piece, one of the various tendrils of my respective tributes to nick cave, whether creative or academic, in the absolutely unfuckwithable @hexliterary.bsky.social

A woman decides to have a hot vampire summer and make it everyone's problem. ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT is on sale at Libro FM for like 80 percent off. I'm not sure for how long? But it's narrated by a full stunning cast 🫀 eat your heart out at Cape Morning libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Cover reveal! 🖤🏚️🖤 So many thanks to Nightworms and @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for unveiling the cover for my second collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own, out on 4/14/26 from @rdspress.bsky.social! Artwork by the fantastic Scott Cole! Pre-order links: books2read.com/hauntedhouses

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

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thought i would just read one chapter of black flame (2025) before bed. found myself gripped by unease and frantic at 2am. absolutely fantastic, gripping novel, run do not walk etc

#whatsleepsbeneath www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/tran... complicated feelings about Psycho, trans grief, and psychosis

Short fiction recommendation of the day: “Each-Uisge” by @davevriser.bsky.social in The Off Season ✨

so honored+excited to be included! here's a little bit about why i love horror + what Jack Ketchum's Girl Next Door did for me

so pleased to have an essay in the #lore issue of #bloodletter magazine ! i talk about (gay) trans masc erasure and poppy z brite / billy martin's fierce and heartbreaking essay "Enough Rope." + how horror can soothe bad trans feelings ♡ bloodlettermag.com/enough-rope-...

NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf we're talking about THE WOODS ALL BLACK by @leemandelo.bsky.social. Angry queers in the backwoods of Kentucky, monsters, vengeance, a proud commitment to desire & erudition. Our drink, Spar Creek, is dark & biting.