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GenderWild Press publishes books by, for, and about the queer and transgender community. Our works span fiction and nonfiction categories in daring, genre-splitting fashion.

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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Now is a great time to submit your essay to the Small Robin Press Spring 2026 anthology themed "Walls." smallrobinpress.com/2025/10/07/subm…
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
We are open for submissions! Send us your best, and feel free to ask questions. We're friendly, and we would love to hear from you.
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We should all have a plan.
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Support Trans Stories
There is an urgency in preserving transgender stories amidst increasing governmental attacks on our rights. Our lack of a coordinated plan for resistance can be restored by sharing personal narratives. GenderWild Press aims to create a platform for trans and queer voices, emphasizing the necessity of funding to continue this vital work.
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
There's still one day left to get your comments in for a chance to win a signed copy of Karla Marie Sweet's new book, False Idols!
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We should all have a plan.
genderwildpress.com
Support Trans Stories
There is an urgency in preserving transgender stories amidst increasing governmental attacks on our rights. Our lack of a coordinated plan for resistance can be restored by sharing personal narratives. GenderWild Press aims to create a platform for trans and queer voices, emphasizing the necessity of funding to continue this vital work.
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Serious question to all my #publishing friends, #authors, and #bookshops out there... Are there any established book distributors for queer/trans indie presses? Not amazon or ingramspark or any of those routes. An actual company choosing to work with queer presses. @genderwildpress.bsky.social
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Submissions for Our Next Anthology Open on October 1 Small Robin Press will open to submissions for our next anthology on October 1! Stop by to learn about our guidelines and requirements. smallrobinpress.com/2025/09/17/subm…
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"You're an animal. We're all animals. Even you, son." - Parker Wilson, Painted Rocks Print: kithbooks.com/shop/p/paintedrocks eBook: kithbooks.com/digital/p/paintedrocks
Painted Rocks
Parker Wilson

cover:
a black and white photo of the author in his eagle scout uniform. his head is graffitied over with the head of an alligator.

text: 
You're an animal. 
We're all animals. 
Even you, son.
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TransFriend @transfriend.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Right now on TransFriend you can join a fabulous book giveaway with Karla Marie Sweet's new release, False Idols. transfriend.substack.com/p/book-givea...
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Book Giveaway by Karla Marie Sweet, author of False Idols
and a stack of book recommendations from the community!
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm so excited to host this inspiring interview with my good friend, Troy Ford. Buy his book! Support queer authors! Give the big 5 the middle finger!
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An interview with Troy Ford
Troy Ford, an author and LGBTQIA2S+ organizer, discusses his newly released novel "Lamb: A Novel in Snapshots," a queer coming-of-age story which explores themes of identity and belonging. Ford reflects on the supportive community found through serializing his work on Substack, the significance of vulnerability in writing, and the evolving landscape of LGBTQIA2S+ literature amidst ongoing censorship challenges. We also chat about the success his book has achieved and his plans for future works.
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I'm so excited to host this inspiring interview with my good friend, Troy Ford. Buy his book! Support queer authors! Give the big 5 the middle finger!
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An interview with Troy Ford
Troy Ford, an author and LGBTQIA2S+ organizer, discusses his newly released novel "Lamb: A Novel in Snapshots," a queer coming-of-age story which explores themes of identity and belonging. Ford reflects on the supportive community found through serializing his work on Substack, the significance of vulnerability in writing, and the evolving landscape of LGBTQIA2S+ literature amidst ongoing censorship challenges. We also chat about the success his book has achieved and his plans for future works.
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Small Robin Press is still just a tiny fledgling in the world of books, but we don't mind being small. Our submissions will be opening soon (October 1, to be specific) for our next anthology. Is it too early to get excited about that? smallrobinpress.com
A vibrant robin chirps loudly with an open beak and a bright red chest
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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Do you love epic fantasy? Then you'll love this bundle. Everything is epic, including the price! Grab it before it's gone! 💙📚 #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #Books #readingcommunity #readers #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky itch.io/b/3251/an-ep...
A Graphic with a dragon and words Itch-io Epic fantasy Bundle 22 books for $20 Sep 4th to 8th
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HELLFRAZIER @popnpizza.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I don’t care if BlueSky is growing or dying, it’s nice here and I’ll never go back to Twitter - or bother with something like Threads - and honestly I’m pretty disappointed in all the folks I know who still use Twitter because they care more about reach than integrity.
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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 01/09/2025
tbh one of the really crappy things about being a tguy is that there are like, almost no historical figures we can point to and say they were like us, bc ppl will say "oh she was just pretending to be a man to achieve X"
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nat weaver @weaver.wtf · 30/08/2025
Don’t let the haiku Bastards get you downtrodden. You’re better than them. #haiku #poem
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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
#queerwriters Saturday: Check in Day! How was your week? Did you accomplish what you set out to do? Share your progress, encourage, cheer, and support others! #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
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Check in day! How was your week?

Monday, Saturday, Sunday
All LGBTQIAP writers welcome
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Small Robin Press @smallrobinpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Hello BlueSky #authors #writers and #books ! Small Robin Press is just showing up to get to know you. We're a tiny publisher of small (but important) books. Our first book is available right now on our website! smallrobinpress.com/product/you-...
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you are enough: a small anthology
A collection of resilient voices share their personal takes on what makes their size–or lack thereof–powerful. From illness diagnosis to art, finding community to baking delicious recipes, eight ou…
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AllAuthor @allauthor.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@mrtroyfordauthor.bsky.social Troy’s writing explores the joy and pain of queerness through the lens of gay men who struggle in a world that views their lives as other and less than. Read NOW! #Books #AllAuthor #Author #Book #LGBT
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Issue 41 of @fencebooks.bsky.social features translated works by Lee Okbong, Claudia Peña Claros, Linda Maria Baros, and more! Be sure to check out the issue this #WomenInTranslationMonth: reader.exacteditions.com/issues/11587...
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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Are you tired of writing in isolation? Do you want more support to complete your projects? Join the #WeeknightWriters Pro Discord for nightly accountability check-ins, weekly virtual write-ins, monthly Q&As, and more - all for just $5 a month! ko-fi.com/weeknightwri...
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Hey, I'm doing a bunch of events in the coming months. Come say hi! (Those "details" will be up on my website....soon lol.)
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Indie presses offer a completely different author-publisher experience, and a lot of writers are taking note. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Indie Presses Provide a Haven for Midlist Authors
More and more marquee names at major publishers are choosing to work with smaller, independent houses.
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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Today, we are celebrating the 2nd northern steampunk novel, Gilded Gear, from the brilliant Emma Whitehall! You can order both parts in our store with 25% off this week with the code SUMMER25! Don't miss out! Book 1: www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
HAPPY RELEASE DAY!!! "Son, write something about burning, the italics watered down to liquid coal. Son, worship this kerosene. Ask me anything. Anything at all." How to Migrate Ghosts Jaiden Geolingo now available in Print & eBook link in reply
How to Migrate Ghosts
Jaiden Geolingo

cover: 
a white crayon like drawing of a ghost obscures a child, with white T-shirt sleeves just poking out the sides, standing in front of a curtained window in front of bins of toys.

text: 
"These poems bruise and sing in the same breath"
Rishi Janakiraman
"These poems are thick, humid with memory - each vignette is swaddled in adobo steam."
Wenshu Wang
Ars Poetica
Son, say the only thing we learned is
worship.
Putting our palms together & praying
for a carcass to turn up
so you could write an elegy, or chucking Molotov cocktails
at inkwells & talking about fire.
Did you know the cool kids want to be diagnosed
with a prayer nowadays, preaching to a god
made of thermal energy.
Oh, let me tell you, son:
the best pieces are birthed
out of scabs or gunmetal &
sometimes rainwater. No gold. Sometimes the moon.
In your hands: a new allegory for smoke.
Let’s go pray again, son. Fill my quills with blood
instead of ink— the softest kind.
Congeal & clot all droplets. O, son, we’ve written
too much about tsunamis
so I want you to say forgive
the things synonymous to cobwebs:
you, your poems doused in ethanol. I’m holding
the matchstick & you need to tell me to
light them up.
Son, write something about burning, the italics watered down
to liquid coal. Son, worship this kerosene.
Ask me anything. Anything at all.
Say it. Say it good.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
every day in August I'll be sharing a personal favourite all books are available at kithbooks.com in print & eBook eBooks, as ever, are free for the asking by DM or email, no reason required.
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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Now's the perfect time to grab Hostile Environments by the wonderful Jan Kaneen with the discount code SUMMER25 As some of our printruns were emptied in days/hours, we did extras of this. And it's still on course to go inside a month 🤯 Order yours here: share.google/n1gE8adz420b...
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Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
if you write historical or things with historical influence (or fantasy ig) reminder that the met has public domain works that you can use freely for covers and interior graphics and such. for free. make use of them!!
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
at the pitch meeting for my next poem luna rey hall @lunareyhall.com 31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books #SealeyChallenge 27/31
at the pitch meeting for my next poem / one of my parents ask if i could write something / universal / & when i ask them what they mean / by universal / they say / “well, we loved your old poems, / the ones that aren’t so / explicit, like anyone / could read them / & / feel.” / then the other chimes in / “the good old ironwood poems, / real oak-bark teeth poems, / the bullet mouth bullet poems, / the man / poems, the boy / poems, the damn-this-could-be-religion poems, / the worried bout’ your father poems, / the ain’t nothing wrong / with me / poems, the poems that grabbed the velvet / straight / off the antlers & wrapped it around / the moon when the moon said it was shivering, / real nightgown poems, / the poems that make us say ‘ah’ / and not ‘oh,’ / poems that make a grandpa think / ‘my grandson ain’t so bad,’ / the poem that makes a grandpa / say ‘my grandson,’ / poems that make someone say ‘son.’”

from space neon neon space by luna rey hall
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 27/08/2025
Authors, there are more and more ways to produce and distribute audiobooks without Amazon's ACX. If you're interested in producing audiobooks without Amazon, we've rounded a handful up: blog.libro.fm/how-authors-...
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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
🚨1 DAY TO GO🚨 Tomorrow, the second part of Clockwork Magpies from the incredible Emma Whitehall hits the shelves! You can order the sensational first novel and The Gilded Gear with 25% off all week in our webstore with the code SUMMER25 Order here: www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
GenderWild is pleased to announce that we are now working with four brilliant authors!
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We Have authors
GenderWild Press is pleased to announce that we are now working with four brilliant authors! This is a big announcement for such a tiny press. But it is also a celebration, a long pre-party, and a hopeful gaze into the gorgeous future we’re building alongside our trans, intersex, genderqueer, and nonbinary writing community.
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new words {press} @newwordspress.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Hurry up and submit. newwordspress.submittable.com/submit
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
HE/HIM Atlas St. Cloud @drdissociation.bsky.social 31 of wim's favourite poems from kith books #SealeyChallenge 26/31
HE/HIM
when i say i’m a m a n i mean– my shoulders are so b r o a d yet–
i cannot
carry this weight.
when i say i’m a m a n i mean
–but like, not really–
when i say i am a m a n i mean– if i had to choose—
s h a t t e r m y n e b u l a
letthestarsgrindagainstoneanother
hope they form new c o n s t e l l a t i o n s
the milky way was never meant to be all that there is
so i’m begging for an exploration of the sky.
NEVER BEFORE HAS THE HUBBLE SEEN WHAT I AM MADE OF
millions of light years away i am f o r m i n g
two stars i m p l o d e and create a blackhole
where i am d r i f t i n g between time.
/\/\ stargazing will never tell you thesecretsoftheuniverse \/\/

from SEDIMENT by Atlas St. Cloud
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
every day in August I'll be sharing a personal favourite all books are available at kithbooks.com in print & eBook eBooks, as ever, are free for the asking by DM or email, no reason required.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
every day in August I'll be sharing a personal favourite all books are available at kithbooks.com in print & eBook eBooks, as ever, are free for the asking by DM or email, no reason required.
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
frozen in the fragility of burgeoning sexuality, the erasures and erotic polaroids of the fine line pull text from teen novels, tease out the tension, and hold it in relief. @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social
the fine line
nat raum

cover: 
close up photo, freaked like a Polaroid, of the author's face in profile, kissing flesh.

text: 
“the fine line masterfully interrogates
the perceived dichotomy between ecstasy and pain.”
sal kang
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/07/2025
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive ― James Baldwin Night 💚📖
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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Are you tired of writing in isolation? Do you want more support to complete your projects? Join the #WeeknightWriters Pro Discord for nightly accountability check-ins, weekly virtual write-ins, monthly work Q&As, and more - all for just $5 a month! Or join at $10 a month for even more perks!
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Corbin Dallas @cmdmultipass.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
So proud of being able to say I'm working with Robin to help queer and trans stories be told!
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nat weaver @weaver.wtf · 29/07/2025
Reminder that @genderwildpress.bsky.social is now open for business and taking submissions from queer authors. Robin, who is an online friend of mine, is running this and is good people. #publishing #WritingCommunity #booksky #LGBTQ
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GenderWild Press @genderwildpress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Oh look! A totally random post by your friendly, overwhelmed underdog publisher!
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Doing the work
I feel guilty, and I feel out of breath. I haven’t told you everything I’ve been doing, stuff you don’t see, things you won’t hear about, and yet I’ve been running myself ragged. Maybe this is just what it means to take on a career of passion. Maybe this is what the learning curve will look like for a while. So this is your update, a kind of a catch-up post, a place for me to spill out the things that have been happening and the work yet to come.
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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened. youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...
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The Gender Recognition Bill Becomes Law in Ireland
YouTube video by TransgenderEquality
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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Just a few more days!!
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nat weaver @weaver.wtf · 11/07/2025
Brand new publisher @genderwildpress.bsky.social is looking for submissions. They particularly want some fiction submissions at the moment. GenderWild Press is publishing fiction and nonfiction works by queer authors. If you are a queer author, take a look at their website. #publishing #LGBTQ
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Submissions
We are currently accepting fiction and nonfiction submissions. GenderWild Press is building a resilient future of queer stories that contribute to the shared legacy of our existence. We are committ…
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
it's prime day and bookshop has free shipping. yes please, but go further. it's a great day to think about ethical, sustainable, access to culture. under capitalism, we are where we spend and we die without art. buy from brick and mortar or online indie (every and) today. kithbooks.com/shop
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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
a cool side effect* of being both queer and Crip is that the months just keep coming. be sure to stop by the shop and check out some of my fellow queer Crips kithbooks.com/shop * a less cool side effect is watching the government gut legal protections. pls call your reps.
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kith in print
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A person sitting in front of a wall of books.  The caption reads, "reading can seriously damage your ignorance."
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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
We are loving seeing a huge number of bookshops picking up our brilliant northern indie fiction this year 😍 Please keep the pictures coming if you find one of our titles in the wild! Check out why book shops are investing in us here: share.google/bqprs1aRCoOB...
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