Writing blog update! See you at the LA Queer Zine Fest 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈👀 meatthink.wordpress.com/2026/05/09/m...

Cool new broadsheet for Los Angeles friends: veralistcenter.org/publications...

I have a creepy little poem about animators and Saturday Morning cartoons coming up in this one

Preorder links here (ebook only for now, watch this space for paperbacks!): books2read.com/u/bP2v9A

Here's our TV guide-inspired cover for SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION! 💀📺 Release date is 31st August, review copies will be ready to offer out shortly.

this is so COOL!!!!! thanks so much to @howsweetthewords.bsky.social for highlighting "Unsettled Nature" from @apexmag.bsky.social and also the incredible story by @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social in @pseudopod.org that i had such a great time narrating!!!!

I'm building up my reading list. What's your favorite LGBTQIA+ book you've read in the past year? #writingcommunity #booksky

I can't choose, but in the running so far: - Unlimited Combat Dolls by @tinylesbianrobot.itch.io - Again, Harder by @astoehr.bsky.social - Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions by @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social - Automatic Noodle by @annaleen.bsky.social - Full Bloom by @magicariot.com

This week I did things a little different. @jordankurella.com is both an author and a narrator, and I featured one of his stories, as well as one he narrated. The story itself is by @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social and really, everything in this post is fantastic!

Apropos of everything, apparently Network (1976) is on youtube for free right now. If you haven't seen it, it is a brilliant commentary on the media that still has important lessons from today, and almost every bit of dialogue is quotable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDjD...

Contact sheet of Marsha P. Johnson 📷 Peter Hujar shorturl.at/oSqAn

these stories slap and elon musk dies in one of them :D

This collection of stories has simultaneously wrecked and rebuilt parts of me and I'm howling that it came to an end. Thankfully I have Alice Stoehr's Again, Harder to follow this up or I don't know that I'd make it through the weekend without some sort of spirit shot diet yokai methadone.

Trans Day of Visibility my ass - with all this rain coming down I can’t see shit.

Cover reveal for 3LBE VOLUME XI print anthology. Coming April 14 with 18 stories by Thomas Ha, Ruth Joffre, Joe Koch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, A.C. Wise, E. Catherine Tobler, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Premee Mohamed, and many more, with 29 new illustrations. Pre-order now! 3lobedmag.com/store.html

Both of us at Tenebrous are deeply honored to present the 40+ badass 🏳️‍⚧️creators🏳️‍⚧️ who will comprise the Table of Contents for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM, a New Weird Cosmic Horror anthology due out 10.06.26! Full deets here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2026/3/... #transdayofvisibility #tdov

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov

or in the mood for horror? i narrated this one too: a creepy af story by @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social inspired by Neutral Milk Hotel? "The Polyamorous Heart of Death." in @pseudopod.org

instead of watching the new harry potter trailer, why not pick up some horror books by trans and nb writers for the trans rights readathon?? there are so many good options. For example, check out some of these writers:

Do you work on Ann Radcliffe? Do you work on women writers and producers of the Gothic and horror? Do you work on topics related to people of marginalised genders in the Gothic? Join us! Submit an abstract for our upcoming online conference! romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

Hugo Nominations close soon!!!!! my novella, The Death of Mountains (from @lethepress.bsky.social) is eligible! if you're wondering if it's any good? it's a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Nebula Award. please consider small presses in your Hugo Nominations. thank you!!!

Happy #worldpoetryday ! Today I read my poem “to the unfixed hearts that want us dead” at The Queer Mercado:

We're absolutely pleased & not at all surprised to hear that the conversation between @endwellian.bsky.social & @ossuary.bsky.social on the eve of Vincent's release of OLYOKE is MOSTLY SOLD OUT. But not completely! You can still reserve a slot—& a copy of the book—here: tinyurl.com/5fx9czt5

Today Infinity Mathing at the Shore turned 2! If you’re looking for a book for your #transrightsreadathon and like weird queer shit that feels lusciously word-drenched, copies are available @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social 💜♾️✖️% weirdpunkbooks.square.site/product/infi...

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

This writing blog post includes information about my upcoming poetry performance at The Queer Mercado: meatthink.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/p...

My baby is back in print today 🥰 A woman trying to save her city has to slit a few throats to do it in this noir-inspired dark fantasy world, a story I wanted to tell that was the reason I became a writer. NO GODS FOR DROWNING, out now from Bad Hand Books 🔪🌊 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-gods-fo...

I read my poem “what is a man?” at PoetikLA:

Damn. Gripping from start to finish. The power dynamics of identity, art, and death explored through the lens of horror... Beautifully told @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social!

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Mentioned this in my newsletter but wanted to give it its own spotlight. “The Polyamorous Heart of Death” by @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social (1st pub’ed in my AND ONE DAY WE WILL DIE: STRANGE STORIES INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL) was featured on @pseudopod.org as read by @jordankurella.com

I’m in the hosting chair this week, and I need to shout out a few people! Firstly of course, @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social for the amazing story, and @jordankurella.com for the wonderful narration. Also @christinogle.bsky.social for her insightful notes on the story and Neutral Milk Hotel, and…

i had so much fun narrating this!!! @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social did a fantastic job writing a beautifully twisted story. give it a listen! this one jumpscared me in my own edits.

“You took her story like an organ removed in the night by a stranger she thought she knew.” The Polyamorous Heart of Death, by M. Lopes Da Silva Narrator: Jordan Kurella Host: Kat Day Audio: Graeme Dunlop pseudopod.org/2026/02/27/p...

Hey, psst, wanna read my fucked-up 500 word Frankenstein story in The Bleeding Margin? Here you go: www.capitalhorror.com/products/the...

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

This over the course of 5 days, disrupting lives now and endangering them going forward any time they need to show licenses or IDs. This while marauding ogres are demanding arbitrary identification or else they lock you up for as long as they like. And it's the year of a major federal election.

I read my poem “what is a man?” at PoetikLA:

In honor of black horror month & women in horror month (March), I’m kicking off my weekly WIHM features a week early! 1st up is @lmariewood.bsky.social Her book, The Tryst: The Red Thread Saga Book One, is available now! Wood also recommends you check out @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social 🖤 (🔗s in 🧵)

Just to be clear (because I've had questions): *** We are currently open to submissions. ***

Ramadan

Performing at a queer comedy & art show in WeHo tomorrow! Pick up a ticket here and lmk if you want a discount code www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-gree...

STARTLING NEW INFORMATION THAT MAY IMPACT THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: eating chili with mac n cheese on top of it is hella delicious.

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

Submissions for our zine call have been a little slow, so I've extended the call to February 14th. Check out our themes and guidelines here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS

There is no excuse for anyone in 2026 to use substack. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Take it easy, but TAKE it

I’m drunk. I think a guy tried to pick me up at a bar but got turned off after I started gushing about Night Visitors (1987) lol