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REMINDER! We are open for submissions until Feb. 7 for our next anthology, IDOLS. See our previous posts for more prompts, ideas, and manifestations about the theme 🥀
A graphic with a bright red background. In the center is a framed, black and white picture of Rukmini on an altar. The text reads: IDOLS. Due by Feb. 7. Seeking trans writers. Fiction, essays, poetry, art.
January 4, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Submissions are OPEN for Issue 02: IDOLS!

Send your best work on saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations to info@lilacperil.com until February 7

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A flyer with a green background and a black and white portrait of Martha P. Johnson. She is smiling at the camera and has a crown of flowers in her hair. The text reads: seeking trans writers! Due by February 7th. IDOLS: fiction, essays, poetry, art. A flyer with a green background and a black and white picture of an older Sylvia Rivera sitting in an armchair and smoking. The text reads: Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS. Idolization = transformation. A flyer with a green background and two black and one photos. One is of Leslie Feinberg raising hir first and speaking into a microphone. The other is Rupert Raj lounging back on a bed, wearing only shorts. The text reads: How do trans people idolize other trans people? Our lovers? Our leaders? Our celebrities? When does an ancestor become an idol? What does idolization do—does it help us or disappoint us, save or betray us? See also: Happy Birthday, Marsha! (2018), Tourmaline We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961–1991 Laverne Cox on the cover of TIME magazine The best friend you have a crush on A flyer with a green background. A black and white picture frame surrounds the text: General Guidelines. - Send work to submissions@lilacperil.com - 2500 words or less - Black and white art only - Include a bio - Acceptance includes a small honorarium and a free copy of the finished book Full details in the caption
December 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Favorite books, films, and albums of the year in no particular order :)
A list of books, white text in black background - I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman - Devil House, John Darnell - My Favorite Thing is Monsters (1 & 2), Emil Ferris - Enemy Feminism, Sophie Lewis - Root Rot, Saskia Nislow - A/S/L, Jeanne Thorton - Casanova 20, Davey Davis - Walking Practice, Dolki Min - Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss - Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body, Megan Milks - Black Flame, Gretchen Felker. Martin - Crawl, Max Delsohn - Fleischerei, Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin A list of films, white text on a black background - Wild At Heart (1990) - Scavengers Reign (2023) - Dead Ringers (1988) - BloodSisters (1995) - Alice (1988) - The Elephant Man (1980) - Perfect Blue (1997) - Point Break (1991) - Tampopo (1985) - When the Cat Comes (1963) - Paprika (2006) - The Doom Generation (1995) - eXistenZ (1990) - Pig (2021) - Mulholland Drive (2001) - Parting Glances (1986) - Mysterious Skin (2004) - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1968-76) A list of albums, white text on a black background - Heavy Metal, Cameron Winter - I Hate Jazz, Mike Krol - Black Eyes, Black Eyes - II, Pure Adult - The Holey Bible, Florry. - 3D Country, Geese - Untenable, Bad Moves - The Idiot, Iggy Pop - Those Deep Buds, Dog Faced Humans - Ursa Minor, Nana Grizol - Saint Cloud, Waxahatchee - Point the Flashlight and Walk, Told Slant - Etran de L'Aïr (Live on KEXP)
December 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
I saw Happiness (1998) alone at AFI this year. Someone in the back laughed so hard at ….let’s just say a certain scene starring Dylan Baker…. that everyone else in the theater became palpably upset. You could cut the discomfort with a knife
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23d
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?

Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23d
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
lukejsuth.bsky.social
This will be fun :) dew drop is the best bar in the city baby
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 25d
We’ll be at Dew Drop vending for Dyke the Halls next week! 🎁🎁🎁
A hand drawn flyer with a cat in a Santa costume drinking beer. Text reads: Dew Drop’s Dyke Party presents Dyke the Halls. Tuesday Dec 12th. 7 pm to close.
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Vanity plate idea: TRAUMA
December 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Yes… ha ha ha… YES!
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 28d
Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid
December 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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🕯️conjuring your submissions🕯️
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 28d
SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN, BABY

Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS

Send work to submissions@lilacperil.com until February 7

Expected pub: late 2026
A graphic with a bright pink background and a picture of Candy Darling. The text reads: Lilac Peril Issue 02: Idols. Call for submissions, open until February 7. All genres welcome. Fiction, essays, poetry.
December 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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In addition, I am honored to announce our two nominees for the 2025 Indie Press of the Year award.

Congratulations to @littlepuss.net and @lilacperil.bsky.social, two indie trans presses who showcased excellence and innovation in transfeminine publishing in 2025.
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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A deer sleeping outside my bedroom window this morning 🤍
Looking throw a window at a young deer sleeping with its nose tucked towards its tail
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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I’m speaking at this wonderful event at GMU on Thursday <3 watershedlit.gmu.edu/events/17561
A light blue and pink flyer. The text reads: The LGBTQ+ Resources Center, the Women and Gender Studies Center, and Watershed Lit Present DAY OF TRANSGENDER LITERATURE PROSE PANEL at 12 pm Explore the transgender experience with readings & discussions from speculative fiction, tabletop role-playing games, and flash narrative writers. Featuring Charlie Jane Anders, Dominique Dickey, Luke Sutherland, and Andrew Joseph White. © FENWICK READING ROOM POETRY PANEL at 1:30 Enjoy poetry readings & a discussion of poetry's unique capacity for illuminating the transgender experience. Featuring Andrea Abi-Karam, Emily Holland, Amir Rabiyah, and K. Iver. © FENWICK READING ROOM WRITING WORKSHOP at 3 PM Join us for creative writing & fellowship as we create new works of literature in a community writing workshop moderated by Addie Tsai. @ FENWICK READING ROOM TDOR VIGIL at 6 pm In observance of Transgender Day of Remembrance, the LGBTQ+ Resources Center and the Center for Leadership and Intercultural Engagement will hold a vigil to acknowledge the losses of our last year and spread awareness about the continued violence against trans and non-binary folks. @ THE JOHNSON CENTER BISTRO A light blue and pink flyer. The text reads: The LGBTQ+ Resources Center, the Women and Gender Studies Center, and Watershed Lit Presents DAY OF TRANSGENDER LITERATURE PROSE PANEL at 12pm Andrew Joseph White is the bestselling, award-winning author of horror novels for teens and adults, including Hell Followed With Us, You Weren't Meant to Be Human, and more. Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley, he received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University and lives in Virginia with his wife and their antisocial cat. Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, among others. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and other awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics. She's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Luke Sutherland is a writer, librarian, and publisher on Piscataway lands, so-called Washington D.C. His chapbook Distance Sequence won the 2023 OutWrite Chapbook Contest, published by Neon Hemlock Press. He is an editor at smoke + mold and co-founder of the trans small press Lilac Peril. Find him online as @lukejsuth or @lilacperil. Dominique Dickey is a speculative fiction writer and game designer. As the creative director of Sly Robot Games, they've created Plant Girl Game and Tomorrow on Revelation Ill. Their short fiction has appeared in venues including Fantasy Magazine Lightspeed Magazine, and Nightmare Magazine. Their novella Redundancies & Potentials is now available from Neon Hemlock Press.
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Thinking about Them
X and Jordan in The Doom Generation looking at each other homosexually X and Jordan in The Doom Generation looking at each other homosexually but it’s a different scene
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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I let myself be queeny around other ftms in a way that often feels locked up around other people—that is something I really love about us, f*ggots of our own making keeping each other company
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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🥲 this means a lot to me actually
Quote from a review by the Transfeminine Review of the book TABOO: “But the real editorial triumph here comes in the table of contents with the absolute sea of underground talent Lilac Peril has managed to gather here, almost all of them at their best. It's not the presence of underground talent that impresses; it's the quality. This is the kind of exceptional submission pool you can create when you're actively investing in supporting and educating your literary community. It's a talent cultivated in workshops and networks of mutual aid and support, and it slaps so damn hard.” Quote from a review by the Transfeminine Review of the book TABOO: “Yes, TABOO is one of the best books of 2025. I'll stand by that, this book fucks so hard. But I have an immense respect now for this entire cohort of authors - what they stand for, and how they represent it. Lilac Peril is sitting on a crop of talent that's overflowing with potential, and almost every story here feels like a beginning of a career still waiting to be written. And isn't that the best possible feeling to take away from a short story collection?”
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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It’s been a hard few months and it’s felt like I haven’t had the energy to celebrate the book properly, but a reading like this makes me really fucking proud of what @submorstua.bsky.social and I made 🖤

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November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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After three straight months of research and reading, I have FINALLY reached the last book for the 2025 Start Here page 😭🙏

It's @lilacperil.bsky.social's second short story collection, let's bring this thing home!!
Issue one Taboo by Lilac Peril ed Luke Sutherland and Andrea Morgan
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Page One.

@theguardian.com #ICE
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Once again asking! Small press especially welcome. This is for a series of mini reviews in the spring issue of a journal
lukejsuth.bsky.social Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · Oct 26
People in the know - what trans horror is coming out in 2026? Besides Persona
November 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I have a short little essay out now in Seventh Wave Magazine about thylacines and writing 🦴 the art is a collage I made a few years ago! theseventhwave.org/insights-on-...
SEVENTH WAVE On Animals Essays "Animals have always haunted human art, but that haunting takes on a different quality when we understand ourselves to be the executioners." Below the text is a collage made up of framed photos of thylacines
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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People in the know - what trans horror is coming out in 2026? Besides Persona
October 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The person doing acoustic covers at the dog Halloween parade did not sing the little “awooo” during She Wolf. I’m seeing red
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I’m taking away the word performative until we can all behave ourselves
October 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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This is in one week :) free and virtual!
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Oct 12
The workshop is virtual and free and that means 🫵YOU🫵 can attend www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-writ...
workshop topic HOW TO "KILL LIES:" WRITING AGAINST RECEIVED LANGUAGE Nico Walker, the infamous bankrobber-turned-novelist, once wrote in BookForum, "Any writer worth a fuck should be in the business of killing lies." This generative writing workshop will consider the clichés, disinformation, and reductive language that plague minority writers specifically and employ them as writing prompts. We will begin by looking at some remarkable lie-killers across identity groups and history (potential writers include Torrey Peters, Andrea Long Chu, Imogen Binnie, Kay Gabriel, Leslie Feinberg, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Ralph Ellison, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, Charles Yu, Mosab Abu Toha, and Nafissa Thompson-Spires) and finish with a writing exercise in which we, as trans artists, write directly against and past the language wrongly applied to us. Sat, October 18 at 2 PM EST Virtual, registration in bio
October 12, 2025 at 12:11 AM