The Trans Book Festival is returning to Melbourne Friday 17 April to Sunday 19 April 2026 and I am terrifically excited to be a part of it.
Buy festival passes, as well tickets to all other TBF 2026 events, at transbookfestival.org
#TransBookFest2026 #Transgender #Festival #WritersFestival #Neurodivergent #AusLit #TransLit #TransBooks #QueerLit #Melbourne #Naarm
Recently finished 'Greta & Valdin', 2021, by Rebecca K Reilly. I almost DNF'd this but very glad I didn't. For me, the sibling characters developed like real family – initially they seemed self-absorbed and frustrating, but then I became deeply invested and needed things to be okay for them. The book became a comforting space where things could go wrong and the world didn't end.
my second book DIFFERENT WITH HIM is out 💖🏳️⚧️
a poetry collection about haphazard masculinities, belonging, and loving genders + genres in flux.
these poems are late-night texts for trans boys reinventing the world at 1 a.m., cis boys who could use reinvention, and the subcultures that shape us.
📖 https://www.rockwoodpress.com/bookstore/p/different-with-him
ISBN included—request it at your library!
dms open for events + collabs
From classic inner-voice scenes to an overly dramatic debate at an anarchist convergence, this chapbook describes the ephemera of a transmasculine adolescence, the joys and failings of homosociality, and the experiences that negate and reinvent us.
Queer Nostalgia & Island Time in JM Barrie & Compton Mackenzie
SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 16/1 (2024)
Dr Timothy C. Baker on JM Barrie’s MARY ROSE (1920) & Compton Mackenzie’s 2 portraits of queer life on Capri: VESTAL FIRE (1927), & EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN (1928)
Free online via Project MUSE
@litstudies
3/4
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/243/article/930909
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #modernism #ComptonMackenzie #Queer #QueerLit #QueerHistory #JMBarrie
This is one of the most delightfully absurd books I've ever read. Recommended for those who like books that play with form, break rules, go all meta, etc. Publisher (punctum books) is non-profit and open access, ebook is available as a free download.
'The Diary of Anna Comnena, or The Very Political Adventures of a Transgender Byzantine Princess in African Elevators' by Tis Kaoru Zamler-Carhart (2024)
#bookstodon #TisKaoruZamlerCarhart #QueerLit #SpeculativeFiction
Continuing the adventure that is taking my partner around Manchester we have ended up in.........
A bookshop.
Ok, not just a bookshop. It's the QueerLit cafe/bar/bookshop.
I've already said that I'd pay for several books as an early Xmas present, but even then she can't decide which books not to buy.
The Muse Happens community is now open! Get a 5% discount on all books and unlock two chapters (one for each serial story) monthly! Plus read all back chapters. Free to join!
Wendy
Benadryl Slumberpatch
Kai Ash
Tammie
mk zariel
Assoc for Scottish Literature
the buff who fell to earth
Lisa St.John
Kit Author
Elle J. Snyder