I recently achieved my lifelong dream of turning thirty years old. I didn’t think I’d make it this far! Luckily I have many wonderful friends and companions to keep on living with
Here are some pictures of our trip to Berlin, Amsterdam, and North Brabant, where I got to visit my grandparents for this first time in a decade :)
New headshot (by @daniphotolopez ) + what I’ll be up to the next few weeks!
1. I’ll be on a panel about building literary community at the one-day conference Publish Now at @thewriterscenter
2. I’ll be at AWP selling books, speaking on a panel about trans publishing, and reading at an offsite event
I would love to see 🫵YOU🫵 at any of these ❤️ don’t you know that I’ve missed you??
Finally getting around to posting my piece “Junk Drawer” in the latest @foglifterpress 🌫️
Foglifter has been a goal journal of mine for a while so this one felt good!
Also enjoy bonus content from my second residency at @sundresspublications , somehow even sweeter than the first.
Sick tat by @wounded_flesh
(Last slide at Natural Bridge, VA)
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
Issue 02: IDOLS
What makes an idol?
How does idolization transform the idolizer, the idolized?
When does admiration become worship?
For our next anthology, we’re interested in your saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations. The movement leaders who have become canonized. The objects on your altar. That one trans person you knew when you were still closeted. We want stories of obsession, devotion, awe. We want your late night prayers and the smell of your incense. We want to be surprised. IDOLS conjures the spirit of:
- A votive candle of Marsha P. Johnson
- Perfect Blue (1997)
- The Candy Darling tattoo in Detransition, Baby
- Dancing around the golden calf with your friends
- Hot Girls With Balls by Benedict Nguyễn
- K-pop stan accounts and fan culture
- The Wicker Man (1973)
- The celebrity of Caitlyn Jenner & Buck Angel
- Your best friend’s older brother
Fiction, essays, poetry, hybrid, visual art—all genres welcome. We will consider anything that can be printed on paper. Submit by FEBRUARY 7th. To be published in late 2026.
** General Guidelines **
- Send submissions to [email protected]. Please attach submissions rather than pasting them in the body of the email.
- Prose: 2500 words or less, double spaced, submitted as a .doc or PDF. If you have something longer that you feel strongly fits the theme, please get in touch.
- Visual art: Up to three pieces, black and white only. Please submit as a PDF or common image format (jpg, png, tiff, svg).
- Along with your submission, please include your name as you would like for it to appear in print, as well as a short bio.
- We pay a small honorarium, and all contributors will receive a free copy of the publication.
- All rights remain with the author or artist before and after publication. Please feel free to submit simultaneously, but let us know if your work appears elsewhere.
We’re sharing glimpses into our latest Insights. Next up, @lukejsuth , who shares his thoughts “On Animals.” 🐯🐒🐰
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“We cannot write ourselves out of ecocide,” he writes. “In some ways, writing has played a supporting role in getting us here. Too often we’ve attempted to replicate the colonial fantasy of a natural world discrete from humans. Indeed, to call something ‘natural’ as shorthand for goodness, purity, and worth is a fascist impulse. We see this not only in regards to climate, but also in the political violence of forced birth, criminalized transition, and the unfettered transmission of diseases. The category of human is not as stable as we would like to think; the State takes it from many of us on a daily basis.” 📝💯😮💨
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Read Luke’s Insights piece in full at the link in bio, and watch this space for more glimpses into our ten powerful new pieces, up now on our site. Insights are written by members of our community about the art and craft of writing. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Spooky season this, spooky season that… in our world, October is the MAX DELSOHN MONTH!!!
Help us celebrate the release of Max’s debut story collection with a workshop / reading double feature:
Virtual Workshop (registration link in bio)
Sat, October 18 at 2 PM EST
How To “Kill Lies:” Writing Against Received Language
Reading + Q&A, with Luke Sutherland
Wed, October 29 at 6 PM EST
People’s Book
7014-A Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, Maryland 20912
Workshop description:
Nico Walker, the infamous bankrobber-turned-novelist, once wrote in BookForum, “Any writer worth a fuck should be in the business of killing lies.” This generative writing workshop will consider the clichés, disinformation, and reductive language that plague minority writers specifically and employ them as writing prompts. We will begin by looking at some remarkable lie-killers across identity groups and history (potential writers include Torrey Peters, Andrea Long Chu, Imogen Binnie, Kay Gabriel, Leslie Feinberg, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Ralph Ellison, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, Charles Yu, Mosab Abu Toha, and Nafissa Thompson-Spires) and finish with a writing exercise in which we, as trans artists, write directly against and past the language wrongly applied to us.
Writers and artists of all experience levels are welcome to join. We want you here even if you’ve never attended a workshop before, or drawn a comic! Registration link in our bio.
THE BOOKS ARE HERE, BABY 🫦
Enormous thank you to the brilliant folks at @radix.coop for their beautiful work and for letting us nerd out in their shop
Copies of TABOO will be for sale THIS SUNDAY at our launch party with @lostcitybooks . There’s still time to pre-order! Link in bio ;) Orders will start shipping soon after that
GET ‘EM WHILE THEY’RE HOT!!!!
Our book launch is next weekend. We worked so long and so hard on it. Won’t you join us in person or virtually (or for the committed pervert, both)?
I love dc. Feds and fascists can’t have it. It feels odd asking you to come to an event right now, but I also think we need to be together as often as possible. Don’t you?
Local ICE hotlines are on the last slide, in case you haven’t saved them to your phone yet. We’ll be fundraising for Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and for our sister Alice Correia Barbosa.
Very excited and humbled to be included in the collection Capital Queer from @writingfromwwph !
DC is a literary city, and a queer one to boot. I’ll be reading in support of the book tomorrow (Tues 6/10) at Kramer’s. See you there 💋
💥COVER REVEAL💥
Issue 01: TABOO is now available for pre-order at the link in our bio
30+ trans writers answer: when the cis world sees our very lives as taboo, what do we still now talk about amongst ourselves?
Edited by Andrea Morgan & Luke Sutherland
Releasing in summer 2025. We could not be more excited to get this in your hands. ❤️🔥
Look at me 👁️ now look at this event 👉
Excited to be giving the shortest reading of all time (2 mins) to celebrate the @theinnerlooplit anniversary
What can I say, I’m just a man of letters and I ❤️ literature
