“Transness makes it impossible not to be aware of how even the things that seem the most fixed can change […] It is a gift to know that.” - Travis Alabanza

Thank you so much Autumn House Press for naming my manuscript To the Lasting House a finalist for their 2025 Rising Writer Prize for Fiction 🥰 + congratulations to the Winner Grace Spulak 🥳 Congratulations also to Autumn House Press for winning the 2025 AWP Small Press Publisher Award last month! 📚

“Perhaps I love films that depict heightened stakes for even minor transgressions against cultural norms because that’s what the entire world felt like when I was growing up as a closeted gay boy, when every step I took had the potential to put me in harm’s way.”

“It’s incredibly comfortable and nice when you can look at your own work and say to yourself, “I did a good job.” And then you let it go”
@thecreativeindependent.com

“Grief, uncertainty, and a kind of power” @danielallencox.bsky.social

Thought I’d post some of my favourite things that came out when I was on the previous platform. First a brilliant piece of writing by Shaun Wilson: finely-crafted language, and movement between front and interiority, plus skilful dialect, energy, character and vivid realness 👇🏻
granta.com/the-legion/