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Evie @thetripleruthtruth.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

There are plenty worse things you can be in fascist times than the cold unyielding tr*nny in the group chat, is my mantra today

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

while writing Exhibit, I also kept a process journal, writing notes to myself & maybe to the novel about the attendant thoughts, feelings, terrors, joys, anxieties & now it’s out!, thank you to @bombmag.bsky.social for publishing this 🖤

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NONFICTION
A Novel's Hidden Diary: Writing Exhibit
Process journal: Seven years of notes

BY R.O. KWON
NOVEMBER 26, 2024

7.20.16

Idon’t quite know what this new book is, who these people might be, or where it’s going, but I imagine it might also be true that, if I knew, I’d be too bored to keep going. So I hope, and I hack through thick leaves. I began Exhibit in 2014, and, until 2017, worked on it when I wasn’t editing my first novel. Starting in 2017, my fiction-writing time went to just Exhibit.

11.17.16

Last week’s election left us brokenhearted and afraid. I keep forcing myself to take deep inhales. It helps a little. What will become of us? I want to be a better person; I would like to be less selfish. I’ve made resolutions about how I’ll use my time. Will they keep? Will I grow up at last?

4.10.17

Each month that goes past, since the elections: flicker of surprise, we’re not yet all dead. Last night, I finished typing out notes for the second novel. I think I’m starting to see where it’s going, what it hopes to be.

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Michelle Santiago Cortés @michelle-sc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

wrote a two-part essay about feminization + digitization, cyberfeminism, the TESCREAL bundle, and Serial Experiments Lain and The Ginny Suite 💌

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003: Girlbots I

Part one of two on The Ginny Suite, the TESCREAL bundle, “Serial Experiments Lain” and other cyberfeminist considerations.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Which four of y'all will move my ridiculous novel about online transsexuals who make ZZT games and have intricately messy feelings toward one another to the front of store display sohopress.com/books/a-s-l/

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A/S/L - Soho Press

A transformational, transformative story about videogames, three queer friends, and the code(s) they learn to survive, perfect for fans of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow It is 1998; Lilith, Sash...

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

ARCs of my debut novel 🏐 HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS 🏐 🥹😮‍💨 media ppl, booksellers, etc. DM me if you wanna make our star-crossed lady jocks Six and Green famous and we’ll send! everyone else, preorder / request, etc. and be patient 💅 my deeply super serious 🤭 satire is out 7/1/25 from @catapult.co #DYHTB

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 13/11/2024

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊

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The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship

Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.

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adrienne rg @adriennerg.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Looking forward to lots of these listed, as well as Hot Girls with Balls by @xbennyboo.bsky.social - out July 2025 from @catapult.co

Book ‘Hot Girls with Balls’ by Benedict Nguyen. Purple background with vibrant and large neon title lettering.

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tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :) Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)

Winter 2025:

*Dean Spade, Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together, Jan 2025

*Edgar Gomez, Alligator Tears (memoir in essays), Feb 11

Emily St. James, Woodworking (novel), March 4

*Torrey Peters, Stag Dance (a novel + 3 novellas), March 11

Spring 2025:

Jamie Hood, Trauma Plot (nonfiction), March 25

Vivian Blaxell, Worthy of the Event (essay), April

Anton Solomonik, Realistic Fiction (short stories), April

Jeanne Thornton, A/S/L (novel), April 1

Aurora Mattia, Unsex Me Here (fiction), April 1

Andrea Long Chu, Authority (essays), April 8

*Denne Michele Norris, When the Harvest Comes (debut novel), April 15

Issac Fellman, Notes from a Regicide (novel), April 15

*Niko Stratis, The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman (memoir in essays), May 6

Mac Crane, A Sharp Endless Need (novel), May 13

Harron Walker, Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman (essays), May 20

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

🏐serving🏐 my debut novel HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS 7/1/25 @catapult.co - available now for pre-order :)

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

wrote about the documentary THE STROLL, Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s incisive intervention in the co-opted history of Meatpacking District — for BOMB Magazine’s 165th issue! in print! ty editor Sophie Kovel <3 bombmagazine.org/articles/the...

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BOMB Magazine | Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's The Stroll

A new documentary shares the stories of Black trans sex workers in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district during the 1980s and ’90s.

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

i get why it's useful but I feel like p*rtiful has got to go :/

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felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

i started looking at applications for the @tinhouse.bsky.social winter workshops today & i'm already so delighted + excited by the stories i've been reading :,) you still have a day to apply!!

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

some news: I wrote a novel, EXHIBIT, & it will publish in May ‘24! I started working on it in ‘15 & its obsessions include art, sex, ambition, curses, Korean mythologies, & generations-old revenge, also the book is very queer

Author of THE INCENDIARIES and co-editor of KINK R.O. Kwon's EXHIBIT, about a brilliant photographer drawn to a glamorous world-class ballerina first by intense artistic drives and then shared bodily desires, while grappling with what might be a curse threatening death and ruin, to Laura Perciasepe at Riverhead, by Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group (NA).

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

People are so proud of their relationship to time. I think that’s charming. And very funny. Like, oh good for you, Father Time kisses you on the forehead and tucks you in every night? That’s so cool, man.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

My head is still spinning over this one! "The Exorsister," my story about a plague of demonic possessions and messy queer sisterhood, is the feature for the August issue of “One Story!” You know you want to buy a copy of this greenpea-soup-colored beauty!

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

a taurus called me an interior design icon 🥹 there is no higher compliment 🥹

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 24/07/2023

this barbie thought the white girlboss movie was predictably itself!!

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 20/07/2023

earnestly using 6 desktops on my little m*c to organize all my little projects and deadlines 😩 babes my brain is so busted

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

DEBUT NOVEL LFGGGGG!!? ☄️🏐 I wrote a satire called HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS because SPORTS and w/ my agent Cody Caetano we made a deal w/ editor Alicia Kroell @Catapult.co ☄️🏐 more balls soon!

ID: atop background of purple, green, and red circles, with paired emojis of volleyballs and hands, a screenshot from Publisher’s Marketplace Dancer, creative producer, Lambda Fellow, and Periplus Fellow Benedict Nguyễn’s 2023 PEN/Bellwether Prize Finalist HOT GIRLS WITH BALLS, a satire in which the two titular indoor volleyball superstars juggle the unspoken resentments in their romantic relationship ahead of their rival teams' first rematch in a year, all while under the gaze of a growing mass of horny fans and haters enraptured by these gorgeous Asian American trans women playing for the men's league, to Alicia Kroell at Catapult, by Cody Caetano at CookeMcDermid (NA).

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 12/07/2023

and days later, hot snack mom's brain is still vacated of thought, this is the power of raunch com cinema

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 11/07/2023

Have you tragically not heard of Emily Zhou's mindblowingly beautiful new story collection coming out this October called GIRLFRIENDS? Good news, now you have! And you can pre-order! 🙂 www.littlepuss.net/girlfriends

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GIRLFRIENDS by Emily Zhou — LittlePuss Press

Seven heartstoppingly gorgeous stories about young transgender life from from the Upper Midwest to New York City.

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

imagine seeing the latest raunch com without hot snack mom in tow!!!

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N.S. Ahmed @nsahmed99.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Okay y'all, last go around promoting this, but if you happen to be in the NY/Brooklyn area tomorrow, I'll be reading with some of the dopest writers around (game changers in the making!) at Unnameable books at 7pm! Hope to see y'all there for a night of mingling and verse! #author #authors

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

between my 2 twitters, 4 email accounts, 3 texting apps, and all the other apps apps apps, my attention span is never coming back 🥰

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Christopher R. Alonso @chrisralonso.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

good morning! Part 1 of my new story is out today at The Rejoinder! They’re a new magazine publishing serialized work. I had a great time working with editor Michael Colbert. I hope you’ll check out my story here: www.rejoindermag.com/issue-2/part1

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Cetus and Chimera - Part I — The Rejoinder

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

when did Neighbor Baby grow out of his stroller?? now he waddles and shouts at things! 😭

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Zefyr Rose Lisowski @zefrrr.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Hi new (+ old) followers! Most of my writing I post on instagram, but for those of you who haven’t read it yet, I wanted to share my most recent essay, on exes, changing through relationships, and Black Swan, a movie I did not like that someone I loved did. Pls read + share! 💕

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Black Swan (2010): Uncanny Valley Girls

Black Swan is a movie about someone whose art is so pure it annihilates her. Or maybe it's a movie about someone who is persuaded to believe in an art so pure it can annihilate, and in doing so makes ...

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benedict nguyễn @xbennyboo.bsky.social · 05/07/2023

bro how long do we give it before this little website implodes too? a year?!

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