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@davevriser.bsky.social
he/him. graduate student, writer, and transsexual horror.
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so pleased to have an essay in the #lore issue of #bloodletter magazine ! i talk about (gay) trans masc erasure and poppy z brite / billy martin's fierce and heartbreaking essay "Enough Rope." + how horror can soothe bad trans feelings ♡
bloodlettermag.com/enough-rope-...
“Enough Rope:” Transmasculine Erasure, Violence, and Reading Trans Horror
There was a horror novel kept behind glass when I visited the Chicago Leather Archives and Museum. Poppy Z. Brite, or Billy Martin, is the author of Exquisite Corpse, a disgusting…
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The Submissions window for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is open for another three weeks!

Get all the deets here:
tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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What's left to say? May everyone involved in dropping bombs on Venezuela be punished swiftly and finally in pursuit of a just society and a lasting architecture of peace.
January 3, 2026 at 6:52 AM
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one of my most popular designs
September 16, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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me: oh hey cool you write towards certainty, that's great. I write towards *holds up fish*

fish: hey
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
i had such a great time with Transmuted (and I have ordered Chasers!!), everyone should read these ASAP
New editions of both books are in the works, but it could take up to a year, so now is the time to get them if you don’t want to wait!
December 21, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Fam heads up on a call for submissions: please share with a Black Horror writer who you know would eat this up. Look at that dream editing duo: @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social and @chesyaburke.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥 Deadline January 14th, 2026...!
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Black Horror | Call for Submissions
We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open!
blog.flametreepublishing.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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It's your birthday, Duane.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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i *am* consumed by jealousy, i *am* obsessed with the bog body
April 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
last day to submit! we would love to see you there!
It's that time... consider submitting to the Queer Horror Conference 2026 ! The call for papers is up now--it was so fun and generative last year, I would love to see all of you here this year! The conference is completely virtual, Feb 5-8th 2026 ♡
www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-pap...
Call For Papers — HSWG Queer Horror Conference 2026
www.queerhorrorconference.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Winter is the perfect time to read Feed Them Silence and feel, like, so extremely bad

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Feed Them Silence
Check out Feed Them Silence - <p><b>Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them <i>Silence</i>, a novella of the near future.</b><br><br>What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman a...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
so suprised & happy to announce that Bloodletter Magazine nominated this essay for the Pushcart Award ♡
December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I have started an urgent gfm for my partner and friend Charisma and Robin. Please consider supporting them as they face financial hardship and housing insecurity! gofund.me/21cc825a8

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November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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As you’re doing holiday shopping, consider Amplitudes!

I’m proud of this project, and all our contributors—folks from more than 6 countries, each bringing unique perspectives and stories about queer/trans futurity, community, and survival even or especially through difficult times—did amazing work.
For #transawarenessweek, a bump for Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity!

Featuring contributors from across the globe, including both familiar and fresh voices, it gathers 22 speculative stories about queer and trans futures—and I hope at least one of them will hit for you 🖤
November 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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We're officially OPEN TO NONFICTION AND REPRINT SUBMISSIONS! We are looking for full nonfiction pieces (not pitches) and reprints of stories currently unavailable for free online.

🪐See our guidelines for details: othersidespec.com/guidelines

🗡️Submit here: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Another bump for the homies 🙏😅
Help if you can, boost if you can't (but no pressure)! They're my friends who have been struggling to stay housed. I need not explain in detail how difficult it is to be trans or to maintain stability in times like ours 😔 www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...
Donate to Help Keep a Trans Family Mobile and Safe, organized by Uilleam Macgregor
We're two working trans artists, Uil and Moss, seeking financial … Uilleam Macgregor needs your support for Donate to Help Keep a Trans Family Mobile and Safe
www.gofundme.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Psst you dont have to be a conventional scholar to participate--the Queer Horror Conference also accepts presentations from artists and other creative practitioners, as well as grads, undergrads, independent scholars, and established faculty.
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Give us our roses while we're still alive.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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If they took these off the list, what’s left? These are the main ones
This is fucking horrifying.

Swastikas and nooses are just “potentially divisive”? Are you kidding me?
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's that time... consider submitting to the Queer Horror Conference 2026 ! The call for papers is up now--it was so fun and generative last year, I would love to see all of you here this year! The conference is completely virtual, Feb 5-8th 2026 ♡
www.queerhorrorconference.com/call-for-pap...
Call For Papers — HSWG Queer Horror Conference 2026
www.queerhorrorconference.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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🔥 COVER +TITLE REVEAL + SUBMISSIONS OPEN🔥

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from Trans & Gender Nonconforming Voices

A Charity collection coming in October 2026🖤☠️🏳️‍⚧️

Art by @mxmorgan.com

All the info here: tenebrouspress.com/blog/2025/11...
November 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Episode 2 of Season 9 profiles Dorian Corey. One of Paris Is Burning's most quotable characters, Corey's life helps us explore the history of drag from balls for enslaved people in the 1870s to today. And when she died, friends found a mummified body in her closet. badgayspod.com/episode-arch...
November 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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THE WORKS OF VERMIN OUT NOW!

"A brilliant, shapeshifting puzzle-box of a book"
- Christopher Buehlman

"A hallucinatory scorpion sting"
- Elizabeth Bear

"My dreams were plagued with anxiety and fear of toxins... Thanks for that."
- My barber

Get your copy from your local bookstore!
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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LEECH by @hironennes.bsky.social is the post-post-post-apocalyptic sci-fi gothic the world needs. Set in a bitter north with a scalpel's attention to bodies, this is a book I wish I could read for the first time again. Our drink, the Institute, bites back as you sip.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F21b...
October 25, 2023 at 8:05 PM