Happy Transgender Awareness Week! Here are 34 of our favorite books with trans characters by trans authors (to the best of our knowledge, including nb identities under the trans umbrella). Celebrate trans awareness by getting your read on! Text list: duckprintspress.com/2025/11/14/q... 🌈📚 📚💙

Our free monthly newsletter goes out tomorrow! In this month’s issue we’ll talk a lot about the Kickstarter as well as reprint and nonfiction submissions, which are opening SOON! (And as always, there is an astonishingly cute pet intern of the month, too.) www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

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.

Backer surveys went out a week ago today! If you backed and haven't seen yours yet, please check your spam folder—the quicker we get all the responses, the quicker you get rewards! Stickers are ordered, including the bonus one you unlocked...design reveal to come soon 🪐 🗡️

Get 'em in there!!

Don't forget to submit your queer books (published in 2025) for the 2026 Lambda Literary Awards - before the November 21st deadline! Submit here: lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammy... #LammyAwards #Lammys2026

Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches. 📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Reminder, we open to nonfiction and reprint submissions in two weeks! For reprints, we're specifically looking for stories currently unavailable to read online for free! For nonfiction, we're looking for completed pieces, not pitches. 📝Our full guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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Eeyyy! Itch is back up and it turns out we cracked $1K in just three days! Let's keep that energy going! itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

As we prep to open to nonfiction and reprint subs on November 24th, we’re getting excited! And we're still amazed by your support, which has been beyond our wildest dreams. Thank you for ensuring OTHERSIDE will exist for at least TWO YEARS and hopefully many more 🪐🗡️ othersidespec.com/guidelines/

Monthly Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #TransSky #BookSky

Val is traveling, which means MR is today's social media intern... which means she just spent all morning trying to learn how to post to Tumblr and TikTok. You can support her truly embarrassing efforts by following us over there too! 🪐🗡️🌈 othersidespec.tumblr.com www.tiktok.com/@othersidespec

Late pledges are officially CLOSED! The Kickstarter campaign is done for real!! Thank you all, we ended up at 404 backers and $18,348!! Backer surveys should be going out by end of day! We’re so so appreciative and we can’t wait to open submissions and support queer artists, poets, and writers 🪐🗡️

FINAL HOUR!! LAST CHAAANCE for late pledges!! Get a 2026/2027 subscription or sponsor a poem, story, or cover art! You can also add on community subscription copies if you want to gift a subscription to others 💜 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

We are TWO BACKERS away from 400 backers!! With LESS THAN 24 HOURS LEFT for late pledges, help us get to 400 backers before our campaign fully comes to a close? 👀 www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Bumping my database of intersex ownvoices books + a bonus list of ALL books by Black intersex authors, for #IntersexAWarenessWeek!

ONLY 24 HOURS LEFT to late pledge! If you want a 2026/2027 subscription or to sponsor a poem, story, or cover? Now’s the time! We’re so appreciative of all your support and can’t wait to open to submissions and start working on bringing the magazine to life! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Trans main characters tackle themes including self-discovery, love & friendship, trauma & healing, literal and/or metaphorical demons, magic, war, or even the world itself in this multi-genre set of 32 books by trans authors! Queernormative worlds! Found family! Trans joy! itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Kind othersiders donated several community subscriptions during our Kickstarter! If you want a sub but can’t afford it, reach out via our website form and say you want a community sub. No need to elaborate, no questions asked. We'll update when we run out! Enjoy! othersidespec.com/contact/

As the dread day approaches and the spirits begin to stir, now is the perfect time to hunker down with a horror novel! 😈🗡️ This Halloween, TFR shares twelve chilling tales from transfemme authors to match the mood 🖤 A handcrafted rec list with a scariness rating for each book. #halloween #horror

Our November behind the scenes newsletter is out! Enjoy a peek behind the Kickstarter campaign flailing, MR getting scared by a xenomorph, and more. If you want to take a look at all that, become a paid patron at the Voyager tier or higher! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

We’ve got 23 more days for the kickstarter of Witching Season—and anthology by a bunch of really rad people all about witches! @cerealpancake.bsky.social and I have a sad gay story! You’re gonna wanna get this!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/phi...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Our behind the scenes newsletter comes out tomorrow for patrons at the Voyager tier and higher. In the spirit of haunted and hilarious vibes, here’s a clip of MR learning the xenomorph in Alien: Isolation does not care if you’re in a mini-game! 🎃 www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Our behind the scenes newsletter comes out tomorrow for patrons at the Voyager tier and higher. In the spirit of haunted and hilarious vibes, here’s a clip of MR learning the xenomorph in Alien: Isolation does not care if you’re in a mini-game! 🎃 www.patreon.com/OthersideSpec

We're only $586 away from unlocking our first stretch goal - a Drabble submission period edited by Kai Delmas. With 47 minutes to go. Can we get there? www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Now that our Kickstarter is over, our co-founders are busy prepping next steps! Backer surveys will go out on November 5th. Thank you again—we're funded for just over TWO YEARS! We’re SO excited for OTHERSIDE’s future 🪐 🗡️ Details on late pledges, community copies, and submissions in thread 🧵

It's Issue 9 and we're feeling fine! It might even be our first nature-y issue, there's zombies, sheep, all types of flora, and the slow decay of time. Issue 9 releases on November 30, $18CAD/year or join for free and get everything sent to your inbox 📬 Thank you to our newest contributors! 🫀

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - SEPTEMBER 2025🏳️‍🌈 I round up over a dozen stories by @remedy.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @ecastroianni.bsky.social @aimeeogdenwrites.com @bogiperson.bsky.social @abetterjulie.bsky.social @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

@kickstarterunited.org rallied on Thursday outside the offices of Littler Mendelson, America’s largest union-busting firm. They launched their fourth week on strike defending a 4-day, 32-hour workweek and fighting to raise the wages for the lowest-paid workers. working-mass.com/2025/10/25/k...

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

YOU DID IT, OTHERSIDERS! Our Kickstarter campaign is officially done! And you have funded MORE THAN TWO YEARS OF OTHERSIDE! More soon, but for now: thank you. We couldn't do any of this without you, and we can't wait for 2026. If you missed out, we have late pledges available for one more week!

TEN MINUTES LEFT!!! ALMOST THERE! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

ONE HOUR REMAINS IN OUR KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN! Last chance to grab a subscription + a short story critique from the brilliant Heather Clitheroe! @lectio.bsky.social is an editor and author of fiction in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fusion Fragment, and elsewhere! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

MAKE THAT FOUR HOURS LEFT! 🫨

only TWELVE HOURS LEFT!! this whole kickstarter has been such a lovely and stressful and surprising journeyyyy in the best way. we're gonna get to exist for TWO YEARS and then some and start at professional pay rates for an SFF lit mag AND include reprints AAAND nonfiction just aaaaa 😭💜

You did it!!! You smashed yet another goal and have funded ISSUE 9 of OTHERSIDE! Given just how difficult this industry can be, we designed our campaign to focus on long-term sustainability: we want to stick around. It means the world that so many of you are as excited about that as we are 💜

Help support a cool queer magazine, and if you want, you can add on a critique from me!

There's under 24 hours left in our Kickstarter campaign! It's not too late to pick up a subscription AND a short story critique from @carolynzhao.bsky.social! Carolyn is co-editor of WYRMHOLE and author of work in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

You did it!!! You smashed yet another goal and have funded ISSUE 9 of OTHERSIDE! Given just how difficult this industry can be, we designed our campaign to focus on long-term sustainability: we want to stick around. It means the world that so many of you are as excited about that as we are 💜

IT'S THE FIIIINAL COUNTDOWN! If you're excited about OTHERSIDE and our plans to publish some incredible speculative fiction/nonfiction/poetry/art by 2SLGBTQIA+ creators... help us spread the word one last time?

LESS THAN 24 HOURS LEFT! LAST CHANCE! Get a subscription AND a short story critique from the amazing Jae Steinbacher! @jaesteinbacher.bsky.social is the author of stories published in Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Baffling, and elsewhere! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026! It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

There's just 4 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we're SO CLOSE to hitting our 20k goal! Our full catalogue of critiques, ebooks, merch and more will all be gone on Halloween. Don't miss out on these limited edition items and donate TODAY! 💜👽🎃 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

24 HOURS LEFT IN OUR KICKSTARTER! Thank you for hitting so many stretch goals and allowing us to publish even more art, reprints, and nonfiction when we open in 2026! It’s not too late to snag rewards (subs! crits! stickers!) and fund some issues of Year 3! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

Me: Man, I got nothing done today. Me: *shuffles over to grab wallet, dips into fundraisers I've been procrastinating on for weeks--namely @apexmag.bsky.social , @thedeadlands.com , @othersidespec.bsky.social , and my local food bank* Me: And now I have done something today. : >

There are TWO DAYS LEFT in our Kickstarter! If you want a short story critique from Suzan Palumbo + a subscription, now’s the time to back! @sillysyntax.bsky.social is the multi-award-nominated author of SKIN THIEF, COUNTESS, and so much more! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

We're officially at 48 hours remaining in our Kickstarter campaign?! This has gone by so fast!! There are still some rewards left: 🎲 play a TTRPG with the co-founders! 📝 short story and query letter critiques—AND we dropped the poetry critique price!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

We have 5 days left and are $800 away from our goal!!! Help us make this book a reality!