what a wonderful way to end 2025 🪷✂️💕
thank you so much @chillsubs_official and EVERYONE who voted for us to be on the list of the year’s best lit mags. being in the top 10 ‘actually inclusive’ publications is such a dreamy thing to be recognized for. five and a half years, 31 issues (soon to be 32! subs open till the end of the month!) and literally hundreds of contributors (most of whom were previously unpublished or new writers) later, we are so proud to continue bringing you the best of queer & trans emerging literature with an emphasis on living with mental illness. thank you to every person who cast a vote, reads our issues, submits to our magazine, has sent a kind word of encouragement or reached out in collaboration.
the honor is shared and so appreciated! truly a glorious list of friends lot and new.
xoxo SoM forever
Stone of Madness Press is proud to present our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees
Zoe Contros Kearl - Three bells toll for you in your lifetime @zoecontros
Hanna Han - In The Hospital, I Dream About Wars I’ve Never Lived Through
Jamez Terry - this banquet may last through the night @rev.jamez
Jeané D. Ridges - the south pervades even the pluriverse
Julie Howd - Together, Again @julie.howd
KD Sims - Rodeo Queen @her_perverse
Thank you to everyone who has allowed us to read and publish your work this year. The very honor of our lives!
- L & O, SoM
P.S. as of today, subs are open :)
#pushcart
🪷 ✂️ ISSUE 33 IS LIVE ✂️ 🪷
33333333 angel issue featuring angel writers:
Jason Davidson
Meredith Macleod Davidson
Atif Nawaz
Simon Collinson
Michael Russell
Mary Howlett
J. Freeborn
KD Sims
James Roach
Aspen Pleasant
Dan Ramos Lay
Aaron Rachel Selby
Vidushi Rijuta
Mary Loreto
William Hawkins
Kenneth Goodman
Lucia Gaudelli
Jaime Rodriguez
Mahdi Meshkatee
Sophia Archontis
Gabriel Wren Santiago-Vancak
Love forever from The Madness 💜
hi we had simply the best reunion at AWP and are gridposting to remind you that SUBS ARE OPEN UNTIL MARCH 31 for our April issue.
we made lots of new friends and would love to see your writing ➡️ [email protected]
are you a new friend? say hi (again) our brains are toasty!
pictured with our most beloved collaborator @mayahmonet_art taken by @whitneymallett over celebratory pizza ❤️
SEE U IN OUR INBOX!
xo O & L
✂️HAPPY NEW YEAR✂️
Stone of Madness Press is proud to present ISSUE 32🪷
We are so grateful to have been named in the top 10 #ActuallyInclusive lit mags by @chillsubs_official & true to form, we have a smorgasbord of work for you to enjoy from emerging and established writers of all ages
including
Maggie Von Sacher
Dmitriy Kogan
Joan Tate
James Milanesi
Marissa Yang Bertucci
Thomas Kearnes
Zoey Laird
Ilia Dolgov
Abigail Eliza
Eric P. Mueller
Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin
Eleanor Sturm
Joke
Eliza Fixler
Blake Mihm
Nicolette Clara Iles
Deja Carr
and reviews of Meredith Macleod Davidson and Blue Nguyen by L Scully
stoneofmadnesspress.com/issue-32
Thank you to every person who reads, submits, contributes, and supports the Madness. You are the reason for this project entering its sixth year. Submissions reopen March 1st.
cover painting detail from Eastman Johnson’s “The Scissors Grinder”
🪷✂️ISSUE 31 IS LIVE✂️🪷
The Madness is proud to bring you new works by over twenty international writers.
Clive Donovan
Simon Maddrell
Jeané D. Ridges
Oleg Olizev
John Sweet
Sirrudeen Nahar
Pluto K
Riley O’Mearns
Lillian McKenzie
James Penha
L.A. Martin
Miller Ganovsky
Tillie Lefforge
Charlie St. Martin
Chad Storey
Julia Vaughan
Saturn Browne
SK Grout
Emily Moon
Max Kennedy
Jamez Terry
THANK YOU for your talent, trust, and time!
stoneofmadnesspress.com/issue-31
it’s here ! happy pride :,)
TRULY a labor of love. when Karen Cline-Tardiff of @gnashingteethpublishing asked me to guest edit an anthology of emerging trans writers last summer I said YES and also how do we do that. we put out an open call that received a flood of submissions from writers around the world, some of whom have authored several books, and some of whom have never been published before. there are over forty contributors across mediums included in this book and all of them lent us a gorgeous middle finger to flagrant anti-trans sentiment and legislature. I am extremely proud and grateful to have been invited to lead this collaborative collection, which is forthcoming in print on June 30th. for all of pride month, you can place pre-orders via gnashingteethpublishing.com (or link in my bio).
virtual launch and local event info coming soon.
many thanks to the artists @m.g.bayonaart and @frequentcrierclub for their work on cover designs and to @maeve_scully for the editor photo. the international celesbian poet @zoe.tuck for blurbing. @caconrad88 for sneaking into my introduction. and to the many many people who shared our open call, trusted us to read your work, and sent us the gift of your disturbing delicious badass words and artwork.
I can’t possibly tag everyone because IG has limits on that sort of thing but I have so many friends old and new included here and I can’t wait for you to see it on bookshelves.
love you team, thanks for bearing with me through my first big bad anthology editorial experience.
better things coming <3
✂️TWENTYNINE✂️
featuring the talents of
Canon Lake
Nino Budabin McQuown
Mira Cameron
L. White
Mary Loreto
Hugh Simmons
Kimmy Chang
Jeremy Giles
James Penha
Maya Gilbert
Margaux Williamson
Ben Jones
Gregory Paul Latanick
Terry Trowbridge
Afoe
Nicola Caroli
Emily Chabra
Hanna Han
Sarah Gamard
Frances Ojeda-Diaz
Lexi Clidienst
Lucas Liu
Alex McCrickard
Lora S.
JJ Loonam
Joan Tate
Rocco Rinaldi-Rose
Ivan McGuinness
Tyler Wilson
Osmani Alcaraz-Ochoa
Masha Breeze
💜
it continues to be our greatest honor to publish queer/trans/neurodivergent writers across generations/borders/publishing experiences. this is our most special thing.
stoneofmadnesspress.com/issue-29
Stone of Madness press proudly presents
our twenty-eighth issue, and first issue of 2025.
there are twenty-nine writers featured here. they are
Jake Triola
Angelic Goldsky
L. Acadia
Mary Ann McGuigan
Brendan Grande
Tanner Lee
KD Sims
Cat Westley
James Anear
James Penha
O.P. Jha
niko swanson-brownell
Joseph Hamilton
Peter Cashorali
Erika Tanahashi
Bill Tope
Louise Bower
Gerald Polanco
Mo Schweiger
Lucas Simone
Jason Kerzinski
Tom Blake
Yuan Changming
S.R. Ekstein
Natalia Anthony
Elinor Serumgard on Em J Parsley
L Scully on Madison Murray
as a magazine made up of international readers and contributors, we commit to continued solidarity with the people of a free Palestine.
Stone of Madness Press is pleased to announce our nominees for the 2024 Pushcart Prize.
Allison Cundiff (ISSUE 26)
Casey Garfield (ISSUE 24)
Reginald Jackson (ISSUE 27)
Madison Murray (ISSUE 27)
Joe Palmer (ISSUE 27)
Laura Anne Whitley (ISSUE 25)
we are indebted to every writer who chooses to publish with us and we humbly offer six poems to a prize that has been recognizing the best of small press literature since 1976. thank you to all who contributed to our four issues of the Madness this year.
- L & O
#pushcartprize
STONE OF MADNESS PRESS ISSUE 27
ft brilliant works by
Joe Palmer
Justin Andrew Cruzana
Madison Murray
Di Hills
Benjamin Johnson
Irina Tall
Aparna Paul
Fizza Abbas
Florian Chan
L.Q El
KP Kaszubowski
al ann kifolo
William Summay
Jessica Ballen
Tommy V.W.
Julia Vaughan
Taylor Kovach
Calvin Jones
Margaux Williamson
Agatha Wren
Shawn Ng
E.K. Bartlett
Reginald Jackson
L Scully/Victoria Mbabazi
this is our final issue of the year, and it marks the conclusion of the fourth full year of the Madness. there are no words of thanks enough. whether you are a reader, contributor, submitter, or just stumbled here by accident, we are so lucky to exist in literature with you. we get so many talented writers of all ages and publishing levels in our inbox, and we celebrate you all. our next submission period will open in December. link in bio, love you
