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| BrightFlame | The Working | Water Dragon Publishing | A modern coven must thwart a looming eco-cataclysm and find the key to the bright futures we need. Strong theme of chosen family and community with diverse (incl queer) characters in this solarpunk, contemporary fantasy. [SPOILER: one of the five POV characters comes out as nonbinary] waterdragonpublishing.com/product/workin… | 2024-11-15 14:38:47 | |
| David Zweifler | Getting Better | The Dread Machine | This was initially published in The Dread Machine in October 2022 (https://www.thedreadmachine.com/getting-better/), picked up as a reprint by Gravesend Press this year, and will run again in a Dragon Gems horror anthology next year. dl.bookfunnel.com/7nqnj1uwh4 | 2024-11-15 06:36:42 | |
| Nic Anstett | Tristan's Shadow | F(r)iction | A woman navigates a blossoming relationship and her own identity while caravaning beneath a giant, slow moving alien in Texas. frictionlit.org/tristans-shadow/ | 2024-11-14 20:40:34 | |
| J.N. ChaneyTerry Mixon | Operation Endgame (The Last Hunter Book 16) | the adventure is such that the Endgame is won by Female Agents surmounting overwhelming adversaries. | 2024-11-14 15:23:18 | ||
| Mari Ness | A Few Mythic Paths | Porkbelly Press | From the publisher: "Ness’ chapbook of poems balances between the real and unreal, myth and place, in an ecological weaving of stories of caution and survival."porkbellypress.com/poetry/mythic | 2024-11-14 10:26:17 | |
| Y.M. Resnik | I Am Fire | Interstellar Flight Magazine | This flash fiction explores the magic of discovering queer identity later in life. magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/i-a… | 2024-11-14 09:55:55 | |
| Sasha Brown | I Demand Knives | Interstellar Flight Magazine | This flash fiction is a sharp new take on the final girl trope in horror. magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/i-d… | 2024-11-14 09:54:33 | |
| Cyrus Amelia Fisher | Tongue of the Necrophage | Interstellar Flight Magazine | A heartbreaking flash fiction about deadnaming, trans identity, and fungi. magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/ton… | 2024-11-14 09:53:21 | |
| Andrea Blythe | Necessary Poisons | Interstellar Flight Press | "A woman troubled by her place in the dark manuscript of her life rediscovers her strength and power in this collection of wicked poems. Poison, plants, bloodshed, and the supernatural collide as Andrea Blythe weaves a haunting series of horror poems not for the faint of heart. A virtuoso of found poetry and the erasure poem, Blythe reworks the words of a horror legend in an entirely new way."interstellarflightpress.com/necessarypoi… | 2024-11-14 09:51:15 | |
| P.C. Verrone | Kiss of Life | FIYAH Magazine | Review by Danai Christopoulou says it best: "Every so often, you come across a story that you don’t know how to describe; words seem inadequate for the luminous work that is Kiss of Life by P.C. Verrone in the latest Fiyah issue. Much like the little girl of many names who was forced to join the Angels and become their mouthpiece, you can only bear witness to the beating heart of this piece, to its lyrical prose that hides so much horror in its deceptive softness. Discussions of colonization, of complicity, of violence in the name of a higher power and of passive resistance shine through a science fantasy lens that does not spare you one drop of blood in its effectiveness. This one will stay with you for a long time."fiyahlitmag.com/issues/issue-29/ | 2024-11-14 08:24:09 | |
| Lindz McLeod | The Brides, The Hunted | Flash Fiction Online | flashfictiononline.com/article/the-bride… | 2024-11-14 07:08:04 | |
| Courtney Smyth | The Undead Complex | Titan Books | titanbooks.com/71468-the-undetectables-s… | 2024-11-14 02:05:48 | |
| Hailey Piper | All the Hearts You Eat | Titan Books | titanbooks.com/71814-all-the-hearts-you-… | 2024-11-14 02:04:49 | |
| Noah Medlock | A Botanical Daughter | Titan Books | titanbooks.com/71595-a-botanical-daughte… | 2024-11-14 02:03:54 | |
| Wole Talabi | Ganger | DAW Books | "Ganger" is an Africanfuturist novella that explores gender, identity and embodiment in new and expected ways. An exquisitely-written story that interweaves a African folktale with a futuristic dystopia. The story follows the personal and political awakenings of teen misfit Laide, living in a stratified, hyper-intrusive data surveillance future city in a world ravaged by climate mitigation technology gone wrong. Laide, who has never felt comfortable with her own body, or her sense of self, finds a way to have her consciousness uploaded into a drone and through this process, goes on a journey of self discovery and revolution that changes her body and mind. Its special. astrapublishinghouse.com/product/converg… | 2024-11-13 19:01:36 | |
| PH Lee | The V*mpire | Reactor | reactormag.com/the-vampire-p-h-lee/ | 2024-11-13 16:39:16 | |
| AD Sui | The Dragonfly Gambit | Neon Hemlock | amazon.com/dragonfly-gambit-d-sui/dp/195… | 2024-11-13 16:13:38 | |
| Suzan Palumbo | Countess | ECW Press | A queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella in which a betrayed captain, seeks revenge on the interplanetary empire that subjugated her people for generations. The first long length SF work to feature an Indo-Caribbean femme Protagonist. Virika Sameroo lives in colonized space under the Æcerbot Empire, much like her ancestors before her in the British West Indies. After years of working hard to rise through the ranks of the empire’s merchant marine, she’s finally become first lieutenant on an interstellar cargo vessel. When her captain dies under suspicious circumstances, Virika is arrested for murder and charged with treason despite her lifelong loyalty to the empire. Her conviction and subsequent imprisonment set her on a path of revenge, determined to take down the evil empire that wronged her, all while the fate of her people hangs in the balance.ecwpress.com/products/countess | 2024-11-13 12:36:51 | |
| P.C. Verrone | A Review of Slime Tutorial : The Musical | Flame Tree Press | A funny and strange story about a theater critic who goes to a show starring a singing slime monster. Features a nonbinary protagonist who invents the slime and explores a being without the “blinders" of gender, race, or the body.flametreepublishing.com/elemental-forces… | 2024-11-13 11:44:54 | |
| Devan Barlow | Brine and Possibility | Inner Worlds | This very short story has a wonderful liberatory quality as the protagonist chooses transformation over submitting to a restrictive gender role.inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds-3-bri… | 2024-11-13 02:54:41 | |
| Aster Olsen | Recollections of the Abyssopelagic Dredge | Inner Worlds | A superb story that functions on two levels, both as a standalone scifi horror story and a political allegory exploring the spread of transphobic hate. inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds-2-rec… | 2024-11-13 02:45:13 | |
| L. Nabang | The Flame in You | Inner Worlds | A quietly devastating story revealing the harm of rigid gender roles and binaries.inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds-4-the… | 2024-11-13 02:25:05 | |
| Dawn Vogel | Evergreen | Inner Worlds | A moving story about being seen and what can grow in the gaps between us.inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds-2-eve… | 2024-11-13 02:19:41 | |
| Maddison Stoff | Love Blooms on the Battlefield | Inner Worlds | I thought this beautifully balanced joy, pain, and humour. Plus: robots!inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds-3-lov… | 2024-11-13 00:09:58 | |
| Lex Chamberlin | New Immortals | Inner Worlds | I loved this very short story about gender at the end of the world.inner-worlds.ghost.io/inner-worlds-3-new… | 2024-11-12 23:54:25 | |
| Tab KimptonAlina WahabAriel Vittoriaugust (in the wake of) dawn & Levi J. RichardsDominique Duong & Glass Giant (also front cover artist)Mel Gillman & Ren StrappMikotoNiki SmithOllie Hicks & Amelia BoardPyrena WindfallRuna Liore & Maya JimenezTab Kimpton & Fidiand Venus Fangs | Succulent | Discord Comics | "Succulent is a lush collection of sapphic erotic comics. Twelve tales which are hot, humid, and above all, dirty. Our theme is a Garden of Sapphic Delights: inspired by the world in bloom and celebrating the diversity of sapphic gender expression. Femme flowers, sappy butches, genderqueer lesbians, trans femme wives, fleshy dykes and thorny switches intertwine in a glorious hothouse of lust. Trans and nonbinary exploration and acceptance has always been deeply rooted in sapphic communities and expression, and this is something we want to honour and reflect in the anthology."discordcomics.com/shop/wordpress/product… | 2024-11-12 23:51:24 | |
| Leanbh Pearson | Dark Queer (Quick Bite Chapbooks, #7) | Quill Lore | Dark Queer (Quick Bite Chapbooks, #7) is a collection of short stories, drabbles and flash fiction with photographic illustrations accompanying each story. The collection is a series of horror, dark fantasy, alternate history and fairytale, myth retellings focused on genderbent stories, queer characters and marginalised voices throughout history.books2read.com/darkqueer | 2024-11-12 17:51:08 | |
| Everdeen Mason | Scarlett | Lightspeed Magazine | lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/scarlett/ | 2024-11-12 12:45:56 | |
| Mari Ness | Let me tell you of that garden | Sword & Kettle Press | From the publisher: "Let Me Tell You of that Garden by Mari Ness is a poetic conversation between Lilith and Eve recreated through a queer lens, telling of beginnings and endings in a deeply transformative, unique, and tender dialogue."swordandkettlepress.com/shop/p/let-me-te… | 2024-11-12 12:39:16 | |
| Ana Hurtado | Nuca | Strange Horizons | Three women in a complicated romantic tangle travel to a magical waterfall that supposedly will remove their horrible faces that have grown on their backs of their necks.strangehorizons.com/fiction/nuca/ | 2024-11-12 11:51:48 | |
| Coralie Fargeat | The Substance | Working Title Films | A pretty widely discussed film which focuses on the toxicity (turning to downright body horror) of beauty standards, primarily in "showbusiness" but broadly applicable too.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_substance | 2024-11-12 11:45:05 | |
| Ozy Brennan | Her Voice is a Backwards Record | Self | In an infinite universe, you can imagine someone you love and she will actually exist. A queer story about how loving others is also loving yourself, set in a troubled-teen-camp / cult in the Utah desert.amazon.com/her-voice-backwards-record-br… | 2024-11-12 11:42:21 | |
| A.K Adler | Fractured Dreamer | UpLit Press | A gritty yet uplifting exploration of trans identity and an interesting blend of fantasy and social realism.barnesandnoble.com/w/fractured-dreamer-a… | 2024-11-12 00:54:13 | |
| Andrew Joseph White | Compound Fracture | Daphne | 2024-11-09 17:08:28 | ||
| H. A. Clarke | The Feast Makers | Erewhon | 2024-11-09 17:03:13 | ||
| P. H. Low | These Deathless Shores | Orbit | Exploration of gender and gender roles through a gender-bent retelling of a Captain Hook origin story. Jordan was a Lost Boy, hiding her gender and playing the male role on Neverland - Lost Boys fight pirates, and girls are caretakers. | 2024-11-07 12:46:08 | |
| Jurgen "jojo" Appelo | Glitches of Gods | Jojo Ventures | From one five-star editorial review: "Jurgen Appelo also raises other relevant subjects, such as the struggles of transgender people, the fluidity of gender, the human need for control, the power of information and misinformation, our need for connection, and the different forms a family can take." – The Chrysalis BREW Project ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://thechrysalisbrewproject.com/2024/06/08/editorial-review-glitches-of-gods-by-jurgen-jojo-appelo/ Other five-star reviews and awards: “A mind-bending journey through AI and human spirit. Glitches of Gods is a tour de force of imagination, humor, and heart.” – The Bookish Elf ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://www.bookishelf.com/glitches-of-gods-by-jurgen-jojo-appelo/ “Glitches of Gods seamlessly blends science fiction, family drama, and fantasy, creating a disorienting yet compelling read.” – Literary Titan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://literarytitan.com/2024/08/10/glitches-of-gods-playspheres-book-1/ “A must-read for fans of science fiction. As the first book in the Playspheres series, it sets a high standard for the rest of the saga to follow.” – Reader Views ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ books2read.com/glitchesofgods | 2024-11-05 11:05:38 | |
| Sally Bonn-Ohiaeriaku | The Enchanted Lipsticks of Nneka | Apocalypse-confidential.com | apocalypse-confidential.com/2024/06/18/t… | 2024-11-03 14:31:26 | |
| Amy Lee Lillard | Exile in Guyville | BoA Editions, Ltd. | "In the stories of Exile in Guyville, probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how they refuse to be ruled. With a speculative and surreal style, Lillard’s prize-winning collection explores a living museum of women from across time; a life app that forces women to comply with beauty standards; a future internment camp with a literal race for survival; and a band of middle-aged Riot Grrrls, taking vengeance with a new power. With humor, rage, and a razor-sharp eye for detail, Exile in Guyville renders the invisible as seen, and the powerless as empowered."boaeditions.org/collections/fiction/prod… | 2024-11-01 07:08:40 | |
| Gabrielle Korn | The Shutouts | Macmillan Publishers | us.macmillan.com/books/9781250323484/the… | 2024-10-29 07:45:32 | |
| S. Jae-Jones | Guardians of Dawn: Ami | Macmillan Publishers | us.macmillan.com/books/9781250191458/gua… | 2024-10-29 07:44:02 | |
| H.E. Edgmon | Merciless Saviors | Macmillan Publishers | us.macmillan.com/books/9781250853639/mer… | 2024-10-29 07:41:58 | |
| Kailee Pedersen | Sacrificial Animals | Macmillan Publishers | us.macmillan.com/books/9781250328243/sac… | 2024-10-29 07:38:25 | |
| Samir Sirk Morató | EGREGORE | ergot | ergot.press/authors/samir_sirk_morat%c3%… | 2024-10-27 08:14:30 | |
| Sarah Cavar | Mad Studies | khoreo magazine | Mad Studies is an experimental short story/prose-poem following the parallel stories of T (they/them), a trans "countryboy" whose story of confinement, refusal, and insanity intersects with another, collective they: an assortment of farm animals experiencing a similar kind of confinement. khoreomag.com/fiction/mad-studies/ | 2024-10-26 19:58:34 | |
| Sarah Cavar | Failure to Comply | featherproof books | Failure to Comply transes language/embodiment to talk about trans, disabled, Mad life under fascism. It explores trans not only as an identity, but as an approach to "hacking" bodies and minds and worlds designed to fail us. featherproof.com/catalog/failure-to-comp… | 2024-10-26 19:24:01 | |
| Leanbh PearsonLouise PieperMendel MireKB ElijahStephen HerczegNikky LeeClare RhodenLeife ShallcrossAmber SimpsonMackenzie Richardson | Cursed Shards: Tales of Dark Folklore | IFWG Publishing International | Cursed Shards is a shared world anthology with authors exploring the myriad of challenges when a cursed mirror is broken and shards transformed and spread across the dark fantasy kingdom. The anthology features strong feminist protagonists, low socioeconomic twins, outcasts and servants, mercenaries all crafted and changed by direct contact with cursed shards where what looks like a blessing from the Fae, is a curse in disguise. Protagonists battling societal expectations and some turning the world askew with a curse to gain control in a world that refuses to accept them.ifwgpublishing.com/title-cursed-shards-t… | 2024-10-26 02:03:44 | |
| Courtney Pauroso | Vanessa 5000 | Dropout.tv (Dropout Presents) | A one-hour Dropout Original live special, a one-woman scifi show that starts off as comedy but goes some other places. Has elements of stand-up comedy and improv, as well as live music. Cyberpunk, feminist, kinky, dystopian, clowning (Pauroso discusses in a behind-the-scenes video the influence of her clown experience). Mind the content notes on Dropout's site. The first third or so feels like jokes we've seen before, and then the second half goes elsewhere. "Vanessa 5000" reminded me of Janelle Monae's work, Bo Burnham's "Inside", and the Murderbot books in how the artist addresses commodification, gendered objectification, exploitation, interpersonal performance, the mediating effect of mass media on artists, & expectations performers and audience have of each other. An astonishingly vulnerable and skilled performance that must have been an astonishingly intimate experience for the live audience.dropout.tv/videos/courtney-pauroso-vanes… | 2024-10-22 07:00:39 | |
| Eleanna Castroianni | Zarghána | Uncanny Magazine | In this horror story everything is queer yet everything is rigidly gendered as it is the single organizing principle of the society. A comment on how oppressive structures can be perpetuated, especially in isolated settings.uncannymagazine.com/article/zarghana/ | 2024-10-22 00:14:34 | |
| Joyce Ch'ng | Fire Heart | Snowy Wings Publishing | snowywingspublishing.com/book/fire-heart… | 2024-10-21 04:27:13 | |
| Joyce Chng | Star Pattern Traveller | Self-Published | amazon.com/star-pattern-traveller-joyce-… | 2024-10-21 04:20:27 | |
| Stacy Skolnik | The Ginny Suite | Montez Press | "Is gender a disease, or a corrupted diagnosis? Skolnik’s genre-exploded book The Ginny Suite proposes a new kind of protagonist: the anti-woman. .... The book explores intersections between sex, gender, writing, technology, and information in surprising, unsettling ways. The Ginny Suite is darkly funny, eerie, and horrifying in its depiction of a world just one or two degrees away from our own – a mirror world that one senses one might easily stumble into, just around a corner at 2am, down some weird Reddit thread, or through the door of a seedy bar." - Claire DeVoogd for Spike Magazine "The Ginny Suite, continues this brilliant trajectory of digital fantasy; part poet’s novel, part sci-fi parable, the novel follows the outbreak of a mysterious and controversial “Sunnyvale syndrome,” affecting countless women across the world" - Ry Cook for Bomb Magazine montezpress.com/catalogue/books/the-ginn… | 2024-10-21 02:36:12 | |
| Leanbh Pearson | Three Curses and Other Dark Tales | IFWG Publishing | A short fiction collection of global folklore reimagining focusing on the unwary "other" and the social, historical, fantastical, horror and supernatural elements of multicultural society from Australian LGBTQIA and disability author incorporating elements of queer, disability, multiculturalism, societal stigmas and othering through a speculative lensifwgpublishing.com/title-three-curses-an… | 2024-10-17 07:12:06 | |
| Leanbh Pearson | "These Bloody Lanes" in Spawn 2 | IFWG Publishing | "These Bloody Lanes" is an alternate history horror and magical realism short story set in Australia's 1920s historical female-led gang warfare but focuses on women's rights to abortion, implication of illegality at the time, social injustice and women's fight for social equality through lens of occult and weird horror in the slums of Sydney, Australia with strong female protagonists, combating social vigilantism and female oppression.ifwgpublishing.com/title-spawn-2-more-we… | 2024-10-17 07:00:08 | |
| Louise Peiper | Tattermog | IFWG Publishing International | "Tattermog" by Australian author Louise Peiper in "Cursed Shards" provides a unique expression of gender, sexuality and the "othering" of protagonists by society told through a lens of the Tatterhood fairytale, transformation motifs, familial bonds, strong heroines and beautifully crafted writing. ifwgpublishing.com/title-cursed-shards-t… | 2024-10-17 06:46:59 | |
| Ann LeBlancRyka AokiElly BangsLillian BoydPalimryaMaya DeaneCoyote DembickiAnya DeNiroJ Jennifer EspinozaMax FirehammerMeghan HylandCatherine KimJess LevineTT MaddenHailey PiperPetra SkeltonRiley TaoIzzy WassersteinAGA Wilmot & Adeline Wong | Embodied Exegesis | Neon Hemlock | An anthology of weird transhumanist cyberpunk stories written by transfem authors and poets. neonhemlock.com/ebooks/embodied-exegesis… | 2024-10-16 05:29:59 | |
| Ann LeBlanc | The Transitive Properties of Cheese | Neon Hemlock | The novella is a cyberpunk cheese-heist that explores what trans body politics will look like in a posthuman future. It engages with themes of trans liberation vs assimilation, and intra-community conflict. Also lots and lots of cheese in space. neonhemlock.com/ebooks | 2024-10-16 05:27:39 | |
| JD Scott | An Echtra | Short Story | shortstory.substack.com/p/an-echtra | 2024-10-15 08:19:30 | |
| John Larison | The Ancients | Penguin | penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747002/the-… | 2024-10-15 08:02:35 | |
| Jonny Compton | Devils Kill Devils | Macmillan | us.macmillan.com/books/9781250841681/dev… | 2024-10-15 07:48:25 | |
| Yoko Tawadatranslated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani | Suggested in the Stars | New Directions | ndbooks.com/book/suggested-in-the-stars/ | 2024-10-15 07:39:12 | |
| Gianni Washington | Flowers From the Void | CLASH Books | This book of queer speculative horror is an excellent debut by a Black author whose work with gender is fascinating.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/gianni-was… | 2024-10-15 07:28:40 | |
| Esther Alter | Rachel Is at a Protest | The Deadlands | thedeadlands.com/issue-35/rachel-is-at-a… | 2024-10-09 08:26:59 | |
| Zebulon House | The Psychic Surgeon Assists | Calamari Archive | The book twists and contorts language as it does trans bodies. New words are born on the page in order to better grasp at trans intertwinement, flesh, kink, and subjectivities. "The Psychic Surgeon Assists crawls the psychotronic pornotopia of a New Hampshire after the future. In this speculative territory—afflicted with a gothic depopulation, and obscured in falls of ash, of snow, of dust—a traveling theater troupe works to articulate a trans erotics. Their play draws on latter day disjecta membra—among them, the surgical sex scenario which gives the work its title—to open as yet occulted heterogenous zones." From publisher website | 2024-10-08 10:31:45 | |
| Victoria Goddard | The Bone Harp | Underhill Books | victoriagoddard.ca/products/the-bone-har… | 2024-10-07 11:54:35 | |
| Ursula Whitcher | North Continent Ribbon | Neon Hemlock Press | This collection of linked short stories, including the new novelette "A Fisher of Stars," describes a society with a tripartite gender system struggling with the impact of machine intelligence.neonhemlock.com/books/north-continent-ri… | 2024-10-07 09:32:46 | |
| E.D.E. Bell | Storm Tree | Atthis Arts | The Alyssia series approaches gender via a secondworlded normalization, centered around kindness.atthisarts.com/product/storm-tree/ | 2024-10-07 09:25:07 | |
| Caldon Mull | Preacherman | Silver Bark Books | A queer relationship set in speculative fiction post-human and trans-human future.Occidental and Oriental concepts of humanity weave together with AI interactions to overcome the main characters childhood adversity. The author knits african storytelling traditions, oriental shinto mysticism with hard western science fiction topics to deliver a haunting emotionally charged story.amazon.de/-/en/caldon-mull-ebook/dp/b0dc… | 2024-10-06 12:17:56 | |
| Rivers Solomon | Model Home | 2024-10-03 17:14:08 | |||
| Alisa Alering | Smothermoss | Tin House | In 1980s Appalachia, sisters Sheila and Angie couldn’t be more different. While their mother works long shifts at the nearby asylum, Sheila cares for their home and keeps to herself, even when enduring relentless bullying. Her fearless younger sister, Angie, is more focused on fighting imaginary zombies and creating tarot-like cards that seem to have minds of their own. When the brutal murder of two female hikers on the nearby Appalachian Trail stuns their small community, the sisters find themselves tangled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Angie discovers a ripped, blood-soaked shirt; money Sheila’s been stashing away disappears; and a strange man tries to barter with a woman’s watch at a local store. As the threat of violence looms larger, the mysterious, ancient mountain they live on—and their willingness to trust each other—might be the only thingstinhouse.com/book/smothermoss/ | 2024-10-02 15:04:50 | |
| Céline Minard translated from French by Anabel L. Kim | Plasmas | Deep Vellum | We will see if this ends up being propelling in terms of gender, but I thought I would nominate it because it sounds really interesting. From the publisher: The stories in Plasmas dive into a post-human, more-than-human world where life as we know it has been replaced by life as it goes on. Acrobats glide through the air attached to biotech devices, an archivist presents scenes from Earth after interstellar colonization to her students, and scientists in Siberia play god with a manmade beast. Written as a series of vignettes into futures near and far, Plasmas dives into questions of legacy, memory, the body, and technology through striking prose from one of France’s leading sci-fi writers. Equally comfortable in the worlds of Donna Haraway and Vladimir Nabokov, Plasmas is stunning in both philosophical and literary depth.store.deepvellum.org/products/plasmas | 2024-09-30 08:17:45 | |
| Gwendolyn Hicks | The Heart That Beats Behind the Bones | Hearth Stories | The story centers a society where one's gender is determined later in life by the reading of their dreams by a priestess. The narrator of the story does not have an assigned gender, and later chooses what it will be. hearthstories.org/issues/2.html | 2024-09-25 21:53:47 | |
| Stewart C Baker | The Butterfly Disjunct | Interstellar Flight Press | A short story collection with a number of stories featuring gender-diverse characters. As the publisher puts it, "In this debut collection, gender and genre collide to celebrate relationships and empathy in all their forms."interstellarflightpress.com/butterflydis… | 2024-09-22 10:16:54 | |
| Jordan Kurella | All Her Rows of Teeth | Three-Lobed Burning Eye | A shark that feeds off hedonism lives in deepest darkest water, and will grant one wish. Caleb Gall’s life has revolved around this legend as it’s revolved around the life of his friend Allysandra Fayden. But like all wishes, the friendship comes with a cost.3lobedmag.com/issue42/3lbe42_story4.html | 2024-09-21 14:06:03 | |
| Clement Goldberg | New Mistakes | DOPAMINE / Semiotext(e) | mitpress.mit.edu/9781635902259/new-mista… | 2024-09-20 11:40:50 | |
| M. Darusha Wehm | Hamlet, Prince of Robots | in potentia press | A beat-by-beat retelling of the Shakespeare classic, Hamlet, Prince of Robots grapples with conscience, ambition, and pain, and what it means to be, or not to be, human.darusha.ca/book/hamlet-prince-of-robots/ | 2024-09-18 12:15:38 | |
| Hannah Templer | Cosmoknights, Book Two | Top Shelf Productions | Likable characters, good art, queer found family, and queer space princesses and knights working to take down the system. All of the main characters are women who are interested in other women (and in at least one case, also interested in a nonbinary person). “For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game. Pan’s life used to be very small. Work in her dad’s body shop, sneak out with her friend Tara to go dancing, and watch the skies for freighter ships. It didn’t even matter that Tara was a princess… until one day it very much did matter, and Pan had to say goodbye forever. Years later, […] a charismatic pair of off-world gladiators show up on her doorstep”cosmoknights.space/ | 2024-09-17 21:42:33 | |
| Freya Marske | Swordcrossed | Bramble | I am hearing really good things about this from people who blurbed it, should probably be on our reading list (and I volunteer as tribute to read it. I LOVE swords.) amazon.com/swordcrossed-freya-marske-ebo… | 2024-09-17 18:48:11 | |
| ST Gibson | An Education In Malice | Redhook | This came across my radar as something we may want to consider amazon.com/education-malice-s-t-gibson/d… | 2024-09-17 18:27:19 | |
| Tlotlo Tsamaase | Womb City | Erewhon Books | “a futuristic Botswana, where certain bodies are microchipped, their future criminal actions predicted by a machine and monitored by the authorities[…] Womb City is an introspective Africanfuturist horror for readers who love stories that take a swing at reductive views on gender and crime without hiding the awfulness those issues bring up.”lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/book-r… | 2024-09-14 16:38:19 | |
| Ben Berman Ghan | The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits | Wolsak and Wynn Publishers | A long discovery and then rediscovery of queerness as the bodies and minds of two women become stranger and through that strangeness, more capable of expressing desire for one another that the world has tried to force them to forget. bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/a… | 2024-09-10 07:55:21 | |
| Chris Panatier | The Redemption of Morgan Bright | Angry Robot | I spoke to the author about this book at Armadillocon, and it seems thematically appropriate to consider for the Otherwise award. | 2024-09-08 09:04:53 | |
| Joseph Howard | Mariki: Gothic Knights | JH Novels | We're entering an exciting new chapter of "The Vampire Mariki" in this engaging sequel. The story goes back a thousand years when Mariki and his friends had settled in the green forests of Ireland. But when an ancient enemy comes back and plunges Mariki and his friends into a chaos of fighting, their peaceful existence is shattered. From the dark past comes this terrifying threat and reveals long-hidden secrets. The setting is a gorgeous mystical forest, where Vikings, Knights, and Vampires converge in this intriguing and enchanted adventure. The story consists of an exciting mixture of adventure, mystery, forbidden love, ruthless action with moments of regret, and a rich tapestry of different cultures. Prepare to embark on a journey that will be even more profound and thrilling than before as we explore the narrative beyond "The Vampire Mariki."jhnovels.wixsite.com/read/books | 2024-09-07 18:35:20 | |
| Sophie Burnham | Sargassa | DAW | penguinrandomhouse.com/books/755221/sarg… | 2024-09-05 12:47:21 | |
| Maxwell Gold | Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions | Raw Dog Screaming Press | 2024-09-03 03:40:53 | ||
| Grace Griego | Robot Girl | Cast of Wonders | A heartfelt and resonant look at the struggle neurodiverse girls often face when negotiating the socialised expectations of a female gender, and how attempts to fit within the framework of opaque social rules often lead to burn-out.castofwonders.org/2024/05/cast-of-wonder… | 2024-09-03 01:11:08 | |
| Plangdi Neple | Bodies of Sand and Blood | Cast of Wonders | A stunning exploration of the trans experiencecastofwonders.org/2024/04/cast-of-wonder… | 2024-09-03 01:03:13 | |
| Jordan Kurella | Evan: A Remainder | Reactor | Evan is suddenly coughing up bones, like, A LOT of bones, but that’s not even in the top ten strangest things that have happened to him since he moved into his new (possibly haunted) duplex . A short story about transmasculinity, isolation, and transition during the age of COVID.reactormag.com/evan-a-remainder-jordan-k… | 2024-09-02 20:22:44 | |
| M.V. Pine | Your Honor, I’d Like to Put You in the Shoes of One of Dr. Morehouse’s Thirty Proven Clients | Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror | 2024-09-02 19:31:33 | ||
| Rob Costello | The Dancing Bears: Queer Fables for the End Times | 2024-09-02 19:29:18 | |||
| Rob Costello | We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures | 2024-09-02 19:28:24 | |||
| Ryan Marie Ketterer | Welcome to Your Body: Lessons in Evisceration | 2024-09-02 19:27:43 | |||
| Sofia Ajram | Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror | 2024-09-02 19:26:40 | |||
| Laura Downes | Something Stirring Underneath | PseudoPod | pseudopod.org/2024/06/06/pseudopod-922-s… | 2024-09-02 19:24:54 | |
| Park SeolyeonAnton Hur (Translator) | A Magical Girl Retires | Harper Collins | 2024-08-22 09:02:57 | ||
| Petra Kuppers | Diver Beneath the Street (Poetry Collection) | Wayne State University Press | Two reviews: What happens when the murder house is down the street? When grim fairy tales are true? With vivid language and visceral wit, Petra Kuppers dives into the wreckage of poisoned ecologies: violence, geography, and nature. Come drift here across ley lines into beetle and bone, axe and sap. Come dance the earth séance of virus and white pine elixir. This book is a reliquary, a remediation, a gift: ‘a blossom to honor the dead.’ – Gabrielle Civil Petra Kuppers’s Diver Beneath the Street knows we’re no safer asleep in our beds than straying from the path into the forest or taking to the streets. Me too, whisper its poems from under the factory-desecrated ground, where twelve princesses don their masks and a whole mycelium network lights up the dance floor - Danielle Pafunda | 2024-08-20 08:00:16 | |
| Margaret Killjoy | The Sapling Cage | Feminist Press | Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond her small town. There’s only one problem: all witches are women, and she was born a boy. When the coven comes to claim her best friend, Lorel disguises herself in a dress and joins in her friend’s place, leaving home and her old self behind. In this gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in a powerful story of trans witchcraft.feministpress.org/books-a-m/the-sapling-… | 2024-08-19 11:19:32 | |
| Dolki MinVictoria Caudle(translator) | Walking Practice | Harper Collins | A gross, emotionally absorbing look at gender from a transmutative alien's perspective by enigmatic queer Korean writer Dolki Min. It's about an alien stranded in Seoul, light years away from home, family, and anything ethically edible. Freshly butchered human seems to be the only thing that our narrator can stomach, and the best hunting ground is dating apps. By uncomfortably squishing its weird alien body into a variety of human-passing, sexually fluid gender disguises, the alien finds fresh victims every night, gaining miserable insight into the intimacies of human existence at its most primal. It's uniquely Korean, thoroughly revolting, and completely fascinating. harpercollins.com/products/walking-pract… | 2024-08-19 10:36:10 | |
| Andy Siege | VINNY | UpLit Press | 1888: A young prostitute opens a gift from a painter and discovers van Gogh’s bloody ear. 2042: The inventor of gene-tweaking buys a desiccated ear which he believes holds the key to bottling human genius. Vinny lives on an isolated island and paints. Scientists watch him, waiting to see if his artistic genius or his latent schizophrenia will manifest first. He’s been cloned to be an artist; he’s surrounded only by things that stimulate his art. Until he discovers rock and roll… The island is full of secrets. Vinny is hiding a guitar cut out of paper. His surrogate parents are hiding their anger and shame. And in an underground lab lurks a far more dangerous secret, a warped, wrathful angel that longs for freedom. As these secrets explode into the public eye, Vinny must discover what it means toa.co/d/6ygzzwz | 2024-08-19 04:09:34 | |
| Emet North | In Universes | Alternate universes as windows for exploring queerness and identity, and the different ways they may play out in one person's life. Regret and second chances and atonement, and the possibilities to which we leave ourselves open. | 2024-08-17 13:42:36 | ||
| Jes Battis | The Winter Knight | ECW Press (A Canadian Indie Publisher) | In The Winter Knight, author Jes Battis revisits Arthurian myth in a queer urban fantasy. The premise of The Winter Knight is that knights are continually reborn in different times and cultures. One of the lead characters, Wayne (the current iteration of Gawain) is an autistic college student who develops a romantic interest in another male character. Featuring queer and trans heroes, The Winter Knight is an entertaining read on a number of levels.ecwpress.com/products/the-winter-knight | 2024-08-17 09:29:15 | |
| J. Alexander Cohen | Talio's Codex | Space Wizard Science Fantasy | In this fantasy legal thriller, Talio Rossa was once a respected magistrate, until his wife found him in bed with another man. After ten years of exile, he returns to the legal community to try to regain his law license. He finds his fate bound up inextricably with an oppressed religious minority, the Incarnites. After defending one of them, Pazli Mecomb, from a murder charge, Talio and Pazli navigate a complicated same-sex, mixed-religion relationship. The Incarnites wear concealing cloaks and hoods at all times, and thus have a looser concept of gender. Another case Talio and Pazli take on relates to a young non-binary Incarnite who wishes to be acknowledged as such. The Chief Physician, an important supporting character is trans, and there are other gay characters as well.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/talio… | 2024-08-17 06:29:52 | |
| Zdravka Evtimovatranslated by Sue Boswell | Laura and Other Stories | Snuggly Books | asterismbooks.com/product/laura-and-othe… | 2024-08-17 01:14:11 | |
| Rachildetranslated by Sue Boswell | The Blood-Guzzler and Other Stories | Snuggly Books | An important short story collection by one of France's greatest writers.snugglybooks.co.uk/the-blood-guzzler/ | 2024-08-17 01:10:16 | |
| Eugen Bacon | A Place Between Waking and Forgetting | Raw Dog Screaming Press | A Place Between Waking and Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more, inhabit. It cases black people stories in bold and evocative text, at times deeply flawed but potentially redeemable protagonists in rich hues of blackness and light. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope. Featuring the World Fantasy Award finalist story “The Devil Don’t Come With Horns”, this collection of short stories is the latest offering by a genre-bending, multi-award winner. It arrives with a poetic introduction by award-winning writer and poet Linda D. Addison, the first African-American recipient of the world-renowned HWA Bram Stoker Award, who has received five awards for her collections. rawdogscreaming.com/books/a-place-betwee… | 2024-08-16 20:14:52 | |
| Gabe Cole Novoa | Most Ardently | Macmillan | "A trans boy searches for a future—and a romance—in which he can live and love openly as himself in this heartwrenching YA reimagining of Pride & Prejudice." Awesome retelling of a classic story that explores both gender and sexuality. | 2024-08-16 14:33:09 | |
| R. B. Lemberg | Yoke of Stars | Tachyon Publications | An apprentice assassin and an inquisitive linguist trade interwoven tales in order to enact revenge. Ukrainian author R. B. Lemberg (The Four Profound Weaves) returns to their legendary Birdverse in an ode to the transformative power of storytelling.tachyonpublications.com/product/yoke-of-… | 2024-08-16 12:01:05 | |
| Izzy Wasserstein | These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart | Tachyon Publications | In a queer, noir technothriller of fractured identity and corporate intrigue, a trans woman faces her fear of losing her community as her past chases after her. This bold, thought-provoking debut science-fiction novella from a Lambda Award finalist is an exciting and unpredictable look at the fluid nature of our former and present selves.tachyonpublications.com/product/these-fr… | 2024-08-16 11:58:06 | |
| Bogi Takács | Power to Yield and Other Stories | Broken Eye Books | Short story collection with several trans and intersex stories | 2024-08-16 11:14:33 | |
| Suyi Davies Okungbowa | Lost Ark Dreaming | Tordotcom | This excellent novella features underwater persons of indeterminate gender that trouble the idea of what gender manifests as when it does so outside the binary of our social understanding.us.macmillan.com/books/9781250890757/los… | 2024-08-16 11:01:48 | |
| Andrea Hairston | Archangels of Funk | Tordotcom/Macmillan | A future-seeing adventure, utterly diverse from the root. The characters are deep and complex, haunting. The Earth herself is a character, as are wondrous, POV dogs. There are circus bots! Middle aged and older women get to be part of the adventure! The humor is off the charts. Funny, celebratory, profoundly loving, this novel is nothing less than a blueprint for surviving the future.us.macmillan.com/books/9781250807281/arc… | 2024-08-16 10:58:35 | |
| Michael J. DeLuca | The Jaguar Mask | Stelliform Press | A magical realist novel about ecocide and revolution in Guatemala featuring visionary artist and jaguar shapeshifter main characters. One of the key threads of the story explores gender expression in an oppressive culture and how queer characters find ways and communities toward the self expression that allows them to continue the fight.stelliform.press/index.php/product/the-j… | 2024-08-16 10:13:25 | |
| Nnedi Okorafor | She Who Knows | DAW | 2024-08-16 10:10:33 | ||
| Avra Margariti | Cicadas, and Their Skins | Strange Horizons | strangehorizons.com/fiction/cicadas-and-… | 2024-08-16 09:53:05 | |
| Ephiny Gale | Pick Your Potion | Foxgrove Press | Several stories in this speculative collection explore gender in a variety of ways.goodreads.com/book/show/210046189-pick-y… | 2024-07-30 02:34:38 | |
| Jedediah Berry | Naming Song | Tor | 2024-07-29 11:39:09 | ||
| August Clarke | Metal from Heaven | Erehwon | 2024-07-29 11:37:54 | ||
| Natasha Pulley | Mars House | Bloomsbury | 2024-07-29 11:25:23 | ||
| Sascha Stronach | Sunforge | Saga | 2024-07-29 11:16:57 | ||
| Elaine Gallagher | Unexploded Remnants | tordotcom | 2024-07-29 11:12:41 | ||
| Lee Mandelo | Woods All Black | tordotcom | Comment from another recommender: “I really appreciated the research into how non-binary gender identities were named and discussed in this historical time period, and how I encountered new terms that show trans and non-conforming identities have always been here.” | 2024-07-29 11:03:08 | |
| Daniel Sarah Karasik | Disobedience | book*hug press | 2024-07-29 11:01:40 | ||
| Myriam Lacroix | How It Works Out | Harry Abrams | 2024-07-29 10:59:00 | ||
| Vajra Chandrasekera | Rakesfall | tordotcom | 2024-07-29 10:57:02 | ||
| John Wiswell | Someone You Can Build A Nest In | DAW | 2024-07-29 10:43:19 | ||
| Jenn Lyons | Sky on Fire | Tor | 2024-07-29 10:40:03 | ||
| Elwin Cotman | Weird Black Girls: Stories | 2024-07-18 08:39:09 | |||
| Shane Hawk (editor)Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (editor) | NEVER WHISTLE AT NIGHT: AN INDIGENOUS DARK FICTION ANTHOLOGY | penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707468/neve… | 2024-07-18 08:35:45 | ||
| Tomi Adeyemi | Children of Anguish and Anarchy | 2024-07-18 08:31:14 | |||
| Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko | Between Blades | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | The protagonist is from a culture where people choose their gender at age 13, but she’s not satisfied with the choice she was pressured into. The protagonist’s partner has two minds (one male, one female) in one body.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/betw… | 2024-07-17 16:00:51 | |
| E.D.E. Bell | Just Chad | Atthis Arts | Very proud of this queer, comedic, episodic fantasy!atthisarts.com/product/just-chad/ | 2024-07-14 06:48:14 | |
| Morgan Welch | Marginalia | Hearth Stories | This story celebrates all kinds of bodies, including those of trans and intersex people.hearthstories.org/issues/2.html | 2024-06-22 22:47:07 | |
| B. Pladek | The Spindle of Necessity | Strange Horizons | (Author’s description, added by request: A trans man meets a beloved author in a dream who he suspects was trans too. Then things get weird. A story about how queer people find ourselves through books and history; the complexities of intragenerational queer community; and what happens when history refuses to affirm us in the ways we (think we) want.)strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-spindle-… | 2024-06-06 21:48:11 | |
| Carlie St. George | The Weight of Your Own Ashes | Clarkesworld | clarkesworldmagazine.com/stgeorge_05_24/ | 2024-05-04 05:39:44 | |
| Neo Glyph | Ensnared | Self | This Star Trek fan fiction explores gender and sexuality issues. The short story was submitted for Stonewall Gaming Network's Writing Challenge.stonewallgaming.net/forums/threads/18032… | 2024-04-21 08:31:00 | |
| Andy Siege | SCHIZOTOPIA | UpLit Press | Schizotopia by Andy Siege is a creative and thoughtful exploration of mental illness and gender. This book is not a genre I typically read, but the book description hooked me. I wanted to figure out what was coming and tried to anticipate the next turn of events, but that was impossible in this twisty read. Instead, immersing myself in the story without trying to put a “normie” structure around it enabled me to appreciate this masterful book. Schizotopia is both fanciful and very real. There were moments of agony and moments of joy. This story was touching and challenging, capturing both my heart and mind.a.co/d/gixopxi | 2024-04-04 08:22:34 | |
| HUNTER LIGUORE | IT'S COB DAY! | The Terminal Press: UNAUTHORIZED DEPARTURES ANTHOLOGY | RICK MCGRATH IS THE EDITOR, his email to get a copy: rickmcgrath@shaw.cafacebook.com/theterminalpress/?locale=hi… | 2024-03-20 14:41:50 | |
| Clara Ward | Be the Sea | Atthis Arts | “I’m not a big sci-fi person, but if more of it left me feeling as good as this one did, I’d call myself a huge fan.” — Alex Brown, Ignyte Award winning critic of Punk-Ass Book Jockey “An amazing sci-fi novel… An eclectic cast of queer and disabled characters… If you enjoy optimistic stories that take into account the realities of our world but present innovative solutions, you’ll enjoy Be the Sea“ — Dawn Vogel, History That Never Wasatthisarts.com/product/be-the-sea/ | 2024-03-12 06:45:54 | |
| Jae Steinbacher | What the Mountain Takes, What the Journey Offers | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | This novelette follows a nonbinary protagonist in a second-world setting in which gender ambiguity is rare. As the protagonist undertakes a journey to help their sick wife, they meet others like themself and discover there are belief systems out there that make room for their identity. Ultimately, the wider world is more accepting than what they've always known.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/what… | 2024-02-27 15:19:21 | |
| Joseph Howard | The Vampire Mariki | JH Novels | Against a malevolent vampire, a daring prince named Mariki sets out on a thrilling quest to safeguard his kingdom in the ancient kingdom of Kemet. But that's not all - for Mariki, his challenges are twofold. As he delves deeper into this perilous journey, Mariki uncovers long-hidden family secrets that shake his very foundation, as well as the perilous power grab of his stepfather and wicked stepbrother. And here's the twist - Mariki is no ordinary mortal. As a vampire, he soon discovers he is unique, destined to traverse the ages, interacting with cultures across the globe. Joined by his maker, a wise mentor, and a fiercely loyal protector, Mariki sets off on an extraordinary odyssey, where loss, pain, and heartache test his resilience at every turn. In the midst of these trials, he unearths profound discoveries and experiences a tapestry of emotions, including electrifying thrills of adventure, tender warmth of romance, and even moments of lighthearted comedy. In this enthralling tale, shadows lurk around every corner, and enigmatic mysteries shroud Mariki's path. With each twist and turn, the story keeps readers on edge and craving more, blending fantasy, horror, and suspense. Every twist and turn keeps readers on the edge of their seats, eager for more to come. With his quest to uncover the secrets of his lineage and confront the forces of darkness that threaten his beloved kingdom, Mariki embarks on a grand adventure through the ages. Take part in a breathtaking adventure that explores human nature and reveals a world you never knew existed.sites.google.com/view/jhnovels-ordering-… | 2024-02-25 06:57:19 | |
| Russell Klyford | EMERGENT MARS | Russell Klyford | About EMERGENT MARS: It's 2059 and Ailia Bax, a burnt-out war correspondent whose career has been going nowhere for the last decade, is aimless and suffering from the debilitating effects of PTSD. When the opportunity arises to report on the unfolding political situation on Mars, she jumps at the chance despite her misgivings about the lack of detail related to the assignment. After nearly twenty-five years of colonization efforts, Mars has developed a unique society composed of both humans and sapient robots called mecha, living in a dozen settlements dotted around the Red Planet. But trouble is brewing: someone's prepared to commit mass-murder to stop their society from flourishing; they need to overcome dwindling economic support, intrusive surveillance and increasing distrust by Earth authorities; while internal differences of opinion threaten to derail their dreams of independence. Mars has already weathered two violent political events; it doesn't need a third. Finding more than she ever bargained for on the Red Planet, Ailia has to adjust to the complexities of life there while struggling to cope with graphic flashbacks from her past. Gradually she becomes an unlikely ally in the settlers' pursuit of self-determination and must make choices that will shape her life and possibly determine the fate of all those who call Mars home. Like "Red Mars" meets "Dances with Wolves" with economics and interplanetary politics mixed into the narrative, EMERGENT MARS will entertain and inspire, leaving you pondering a profound question: How will humanity free itself from all the mistakes of its past as it expands into the solar system?russellklyfordbooks.com | 2024-02-19 15:22:19 | |
| Nghi Vo | On the Fox Roads | Reactor | East-Asian-descended bank robbers in 1930s America; magical roads; gender; escape and belonging.reactormag.com/on-the-fox-roads-nghi-vo-… | 2024-02-18 08:39:25 | |
| Helen Marshall | The Gold Leaf Executions | Unsung Stories | Submitting for consideration in 2024 as issues with your form meant I couldn't for 2023. Marshall remains a shining luminary of the uncanny, combining savagery and nimble wit with deceptive ease.unsungstories.co.uk/the-gold-leaf-execut… | 2024-02-15 13:47:13 | |
| Kelly Link | White Cat, Black Dog | Random House | penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704687/whit… | 2024-01-29 07:10:45 | |
| Yael Goldstein-love | The Possibilities | Random House | penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708816/the-… | 2024-01-29 07:08:41 | |
| micha cardenas | Atoms Never Touch | AK Press | I tried to submit this for 2023, but I missed the deadline by some hours. Thanks for considering it. akpress.org/atoms-never-touch.html | 2024-01-25 20:07:57 | |
| Hadeer Elsbai | The Daughters of Izdihar | Harper Voyager | The Daughters of Izdihar explores sexism and misogyny through the lens of an Egyptian-inspired fantasy world. It is a fantastical re-imagining of the Egyptian women's suffrage movement of the 1950s and the Egyptian feminist movement of the 1920s. | 2024-01-17 17:35:04 | |
| Geneviève BlouinTranslated by Margaret Sankey | The Secret Lives of Shellwomen | Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume One | Short storyamazon.com/years-canadian-fantasy-scienc… | 2024-01-11 11:57:29 | |
| Morgan Welch | Hikari | Small Wonders | The story features a non-binary protagonist seeking solace and ghosts in an abandoned Japanese house. They struggle with grief, while craving acceptance. As well as reflecting the personal experiences of the author, the work seeks to normalise the use of 'they' as a personal pronoun.smallwondersmag.com/piece/hikari/ | 2024-01-08 10:59:01 | |
| Cecilia Tan | Personalize Your Netherparts | Flingass Productions | A near-future sf erotic short story by Cecilia Tan, who is known for mixing erotica and sf/f. It's the one new story in the new collection Bent for Leather. During crowdfunding for the book, one backer got to choose the prompt for the new story, and they chose "easy alternate genitalia." The story explores the concept through the relationship of two tech company founders whose relationships with each other, with gender, and with their "personalized netherparts" products are, well, "complicated." patreon.com/posts/2023-in-review-9540530… | 2024-01-03 18:59:35 | |
| Meena broken soul in healing Jahi | Greener Grass | Unpublished | LGBTQ: Conversations with Jah and the Universe | 2023-12-02 15:13:13 |