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Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thrilled to share that my poem "Still Learning" will appear in @lilacperil.bsky.social IDOLS issue. More when it's out in the world. 🌿

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caiman @gharial.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

heyy ;3 yall should get this esp if you wanna read my best poem

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Aster Olsen @asterolsen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pre-order the story collection I'm in! My story is about a really normal cis woman. It's called The Woman in the Tight Pink Shorts.

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felicity of images @carc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

you heard it here first: verse felicity

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pick this one up if you want my juicy essay about xenomorphs.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s here: The contributor list for issue 02: IDOLS is about ten miles long and full of talent, new and proven 🕯️PRE-ORDER NOW🕯️ 🪽to worship with us🪽 lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

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Contributor List.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

For some reason none of the graphics posted and I’m not typing all that again so here you go 🫡

A graphic with a green background and a textile in the middle. The text reads: Lilac Peril presents, Dialogue in Mini Comics. A free workshop with Lillie J. Harris. Sunday July 25 at 6 pm. Pure Panic Comics, 8317 Fenton St, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

A graphic with a green background and a photo of Lillie in front of a gallery wall. The text reads: Lillie J. Harris is a cartoonist, arts educator, and Nebula Award-nominated writer from Clinton, MD. Tension and empathy are notable themes throughout Lillie's work, as well as thanatology, horror, and no punching down.

A graphic with a green background. The text reads: Q&A. Who is this workshop for? trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit writers of all experience levels. we welcome you whether its your 1st or 100th workshop. How much does it cost? This workshop is free to attend. if you're able to, we ask that you donate to HIPS. Why should I attend? To build community, to fight despair, and to get inspired for that writing project you've been meaning to work on.

A graphic with a green background and a textile star. The text reads: August workshop with Evangeline Giaconia. Sunday, August 30 at 1 pm. Rhizome DC.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🌟July’s free workshop🌟: DIALOGUE IN MINI COMICS with Lillie J. Harris @lilliejharris.bsky.social Sunday, July 25 at 6 pm Pure Panic Comics 8317 Fenton St, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Join us for a generative evening of making zines and mini comics!

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

GAY SALE ENDS SOON DON’T MISS GAY SALE

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beestung @beestung.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

NEWS NEWS NEWS! beestung's Pleasure Issue is open for an extra few days for Black and Indigenous writers and writers of color! We deserve a little breathing room, and we're getting it Deadline: 6/20 Pay: $20 Guest editor: brilliant & savvy & looking forward to reading you up & down Theme: 🥵🫦🩲🍆🍑🎇

THE PLEASURE ISSUE: REAL + IMAGINARY

SUBMISSION CLOSE: (BIPOC ONLY) 06/20/2026

FLASH FICTION + POETRY + CREATIVE NON-FICTION + ART

PAY - $20.00

GUEST EDITED BY CHRISTIAN M. IVEY

This issue aims to interrogate the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic through flash fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and art. Pleasure does not exist in a vacuum. Which leads to what are the relationships between what we fear and desire, and how does how we engage signify these importances?

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ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers! Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors. Deadline: July 31st, 2026. More: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...

Orchid on white background. Text reads: the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. $500 award for two writers .

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I've got an essay in Issue 02: IDOLS about my fondness for the xenomorph queen, so you'll want to get that one.

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Queen Xenomorph from Aliens

Alt: Queen Xenomorph from Aliens lowering her head, considering Ripley's threat.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🚨🚨GAY BOOKS GET YOUR GAY BOOKS 🚨🚨 Now until the end of June you can get: 20% off one book 25% off a two book bundle 30% off a three book bundle lilacperil.bigcartel.com/products

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

if you like what ALOCASIA is doing, you might be interested in our current call for ecofuture writing, our $500 microgrant for queer nature writers, or one of our upcoming FREE online creative writing workshops! and we're open for standard submissions, too. learn more: ALOCASIA.org

ALOCASIA'S EcoFutures Issue. Deadline 6/6. ALOCASIA.org. computery futurey background.

Venus flytrap background. EJ Haley and ALOCASIA present Strange Hungers: Queering Desire through Carnivorous Plants. June 13 at 3pm EST. Free, virtual on Zoom. This cross-genre generative workshop will invite participants to examine their hungers through the lens of carnivorous plants. Drawing from the works of Kimiko Hahn and A.L. Goldfuss, as well as the care and maintenance of these unique plants, this workshop asks the participant to engage with their hungers, map their desires, and leap forward—unafraid—into strange territories. All genres welcome.

Seelai Karzai and ALOCASIA present Postapocalyptic Beings at the Beginning of the World, a poetry writing workshop. July 18th at 3pm, Free, Virtual on Zoom.

What can forests, swamps, grasslands, and wildlife inhabiting the earth show us about surviving exile, displacement, rootlessness, and the persistence of being? We will read and discuss a variety of poems by Franny Choi, Ross Gay, Rajiv Mohabir, and others. In this generative writing workshop, we will also have guided poetry prompts inspired by examples from our reading selections and quiet writing time to produce new poems that map out our postapocalyptic psyches.

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Riley Black 🏳️‍⚧️ 🦕 @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

You’re going to want to pick up the Idols issue from @lilacperil.bsky.social. Why? Because I’ll have an essay in it enthusing over someone very near and dear to me the xenomorph queen. hsssssssss I’m thrilled to have been selected for this one!

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PRE-ORDER | Issue 02: IDOLS

COMING IN FALL 2026 Saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations. The movement leaders who have become canonized. The objects on your altar. The first trans person you ever knew. Late night prayers and ...

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

May’s free (virtual) workshop: THE GENRE SELF with Isle McElroy Sunday, May 17 at 6 PM EST Virtual | Registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-genre-...

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The Genre Self
Virtual
May 17 at 6 pm EST
a free workshop for trans writers with ISLE McELROY

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

May 27, save the date DC!!! All the learned transsexuals will be there 🧐🍷 @submorstua.bsky.social

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It’s the last day of the Trans Rights Readathon and we have hmmm mostly forgotten to post about it!!! You can pick up our newly re-issued first book, our second book (which most people think is our first lol), or pre-order our third! lilacperil.bigcartel.com/products

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

sheer spite is run by one (1) weary transsexual and most of the stuff we publish and distribute is by other trans people, not as a moral principle but just because i love trans people and i love the work we make. #tdov sheerspite.ca sheerspite.bigcartel.com

text reading "transsexual art will live forever" surrounded by an assortment of trans zines

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🏳️‍⚧️Suzi 🖤 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇧🇪🇮🇪 @sqotn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If you were looking for something for bsky.app/profile/beck... I can thoroughly recommend the 'Taboo' issue by Lilac Peril press. A wonderful varied compilation of trans expression both written and visual. Even if you're not doing the readathon you would enrich your life immeasurably by reading it.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Lilac Peril: your human puppy will love us!

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 24/03/2026

OH MY GOD THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE ARTICLE // this mag trend is so exciting and here they are all TALKING TO EACH OTHER // essssential reading // also then go buy the mags (if U can still get them slowpokes) // also then start your own #ReNaissance

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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

what “renaissance” means here is it is now YOUR job to start a publication. i don’t make the rules electricliterature.com/the-renaissa...

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The Renaissance of the Trans Magazine - Electric Literature

Eight editors behind trans periodicals discuss trans activism and the power of t4t publications

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

April's workshop is coming up QUICK, and it's a good one... WRITING THE TRANS EROTIC with Lucie Fielding ( @sexbeyondbinaries.bsky.social ) Sunday, April 5 at 1 PM EST Rhizome DC | 6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012 *** 18 + ONLY ***

A graphic with an illustration of a woman raising a whip by Aubrey Beardsley. The text reads: Lilac Peril presents: writing the trans erotic. Sunday, April 5 at 1:00 PM. Rhizome DC. A free writing workshop with Lucie Fielding. 18+only.

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 19/03/2026

Well hello there, you wouldn't happen to be a...well, you know... a FRIEND OF THE PUSS? What's that you ask? Well, uh, it's when you, uh, it's like gay marriage, but for liking books too much!

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

TRANS RIGHTS READATHON is back! all kith eBooks are free until the 31st! free books are great but trans people are better. donate, fundraise, tell a friend, gift a book, thank an author, post your reads, spend a little money at your favourite trans press #TransRightsReadathon kithbooks.com/digital

TRANS RIGHTS READATHON
March 17th-31st

all kith eBooks are free

Donate, fundraise, tell a friend gift a book, thank an author, post your reads, spend a little money at your favourite trans press

kithbooks.com
#transrightsreadathon

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

If you’ve been on our webstore recently, you may have noticed something: our first book, Issue 00 is available again! lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

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Dawn Asson @eos-dawn.com · 13/03/2026

Preordered! Yay! 🩷

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Reminder - this is THIS SUNDAY 😛

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Pre-orders for our next anthology IDOLS are open NOW!!! Cover art and contributor list TBA lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 08/03/2026

Here’s what I got at AWP, mostly by asking various presses what their least accessible book was

Big stack of books that will hopefully be difficult to read

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maxine @deadlately.myatproto.social · 08/03/2026

Oh baby, i love some @lilacperil.bsky.social

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

MARCH WORKSHOP! We’ll be writing IN-PERSON with Benny Peterson on Sunday, March 15 at Rhizome DC 🧠🧠🧠

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Lilac Peril presents
CREATING CHARACTERS FROM THE BODY
Rhizome DC
Sunday, March 15 at 11:00 AM
a free trans writing workshop with BENNY PETERSON

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Workshop topic:
CREATING CHARACTERS
FROM THE BODY
In fiction, we talk about very vivid characters as feeling "embodied" - through some mysterious creative alchemy, these words on a page take on a form that feels corporeal. As writers, how do we create characters that feel so real we can almost touch them, hear them, smell them? And what can we learn from our own experiences being a body in the world that we can then translate into an imaginary character's bodily experiences? In this workshop, we will read and discuss some examples of character-development to understand how writers create embodied characters. Well also do some somatic exercises to help us think about what physical reality actually "feels" like in our own bodies and how we can evoke that sensation through words. And we'll do some writing
exercises to work on conveying
that felt reality on the page. It will
help to have a character in mind
for this workshop- either one you've already written about, or one you're hoping to write
about. But there will also be space for creating a character during the
workshop, if you don't have one already in mind.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

AWP is TWO WEEKS AWAY and it’s our first time 😏🍒 see where you can find us ⬇️

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Lilac Peril @ AWP
Baltimore Convention Center
March 7th - 9th

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Our friends at @neonhemlock.bsky.social need help with funding! They’ve been putting out queer sci-fi bangers for years, and WHAT ELEGANT STARS will be killer. Give it a pre-order or commit to a higher tier if you’re able!

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

THAT’S A WRAP!!! We are CLOSED for submissions! Thanks so much to everyone who submitted, we more than doubled our numbers from last year 😱

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We at LP love “normal” literature

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TOMORROW 2/7 AT 11:59 PM EST 📣📣📣

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 03/02/2026

‼️Applications are open for the inaugural TJA Reporting Fellowship! Seven fellows will receive: 💰$5000 stipend over six months to offset reporting costs 👍🏾Dedicated mentorship and reporting guidance 🎯Targeted professional development Find out more info www.transjournalists.org/reporting-fe....

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Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Loving Issue 01 of @lilacperil.bsky.social — “Taboo” 🔥

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

🕯️ ONE WEEK LEFT until submissions close for our next print anthology IDOLS 🕯️

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SEEKING TRANS WRITERS! Fiction, essays, poetry, art.

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

four days left to get your applications in

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

WORKSHOPS ARE BACK, BABY 🫦 Writing For Trans Justice with KB Brookins Join us for a free, virtual workshop about how to write and pitch op-eds, and what op-eds can do for trans rights! Register here: Writing for Trans Justice with KB Brookins www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-fo...

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LILAC PERIL PRESENTS
Writing for Trans Justice: the who / what / when / where / why of writing, pitching, and landing op-eds about trans issues
with KB BROOKINS
a free virtual workshop
Feb 21, 2026
1 - 2 PM EST

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Writing for Trans Justice:
the who / what / when / where / why of writing, pitching, and landing op-eds about trans issues.

We'll be going over the basics of writing and pitching opinion editorials (op-eds) and what op-eds can do for trans rights!
Free, trans led, and community oriented.This will be a
1-hour time commitment.

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