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A Coup of Owls Press | DARK PATHS NOW AVAILABLE!!
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Publishing only marginalised/under-represented creators, 18+.
Est. 2021 and going strong
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Have you got your copy of Dark Paths yet?
Want to extend the spoopy season? Or just love a bit of queer horror?

You can purchase paperback or digital formats directly from our shop!

acoupofowls.square.site/s/shop
#Booksky #queerfiction #Horror #queerhorror #queerromance 🌈📚
promo image for upcoming novelette collection "Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection". In the middle of the image is the cover art for the book - a road disappearing into the darkness along which drives a dirty yellow taxi. At the side of the road are fruit trees and a sign that reads "Strangers don't let the sun set on you here". Above the title text at the top of the cover hovers a large wasp. There is a jagged flash shape on which is text reading "FOUR! Queer! Horror! Romance! Novelettes!" There are circles on the image containing text, with arrows pointing towards the cover. The text in each reads: "Vampires that SUCK!" "This Goddess has CLAWS!" "Road Trip ENCOUNTERS!" "Were-Wasp REVENGE!" Text at the bottom of the image reads "Coming... 31st October 2025"
November 12, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Check out our latest update:
We're posting regular focus posts on each of the upcoming stories in our 2025-2026 publications.

Latest - Underneath The Unblemished Mask by
@cinnamaldeide.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

#queerfiction #queerfantasy #romantasy #booksky 🌈📚
image of two white dice on a shiny black surface flecked with gold glitter. The dice have both landed on the number one - snake eyes.
October 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Check out our latest update:
We're posting regular focus posts on each of the upcoming stories in our 2025-2026 publications.

Latest - Eyes of Magic by @johannestevans.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

#queerfiction #queerfantasy #romantasy #booksky 🌈📚
Image looking upwards in a forest through a circle of tall trees, behind which is a tall, dark tower.
October 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Two of our team! Having a great day chatting with people about A Coup of Owls at the Norwich Book Festival Book Fair (org by @salopress.bsky.social)- thanks for having us!
Selfie of Max and Leonie of the Owls team in front of the A Coup of Owls book stall at Norwich Book Fest Book Fair.
October 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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AVAILABLE 31 OCTOBER 2025

🎇 Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection 🎇

Back our Kickstarter now to receive this great #Halloween treat! 🎃🍬👻

www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...
#Booksky #queerfiction #Horror #queerhorror #queerromance 🌈📚
promo image for upcoming novelette collection "Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection". In the middle of the image is the cover art for the book - a road disappearing into the darkness along which drives a dirty yellow taxi. At the side of the road are fruit trees and a sign that reads "Strangers don't let the sun set on you here". Above the title text at the top of the cover hovers a large wasp. There is a jagged flash shape on which is text reading "FOUR! Queer! Horror! Romance! Novelettes!" There are circles on the image containing text, with arrows pointing towards the cover. The text in each reads: "Vampires that SUCK!" "This Goddess has CLAWS!" "Road Trip ENCOUNTERS!" "Were-Wasp REVENGE!" Text at the bottom of the image reads "Coming... 31st October 2025"
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Check out our latest update:
We're posting regular focus posts on each of the upcoming stories in our 2025-2026 publications.

Latest - The Sphecanthrope by Leigh V Twersky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

#queerfiction #queerhorror #horrorromance #booksky 🌈📚
Close up photo of a wasp sitting on a stick, side profile.
October 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Check out our latest update:
We're posting regular focus posts on each of the upcoming stories in our 2025-2026 publications.

places where you cannot be: an afro-american travel guide by @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social

www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

#queerfiction #queerhorror #booksky 🌈📚
Painting of a man standing at the crossroads of a dirt road, he is holding a guitar and the shadow he casts is of a horned demon.
October 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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We're super excited to share with you the cover of Dark Paths, releasing later this month.

The artwork is by Elliott Cassel, an illustrator, writer, and graphic designer with a passion for the macabre. His work explores the intersection of queerness, sex and violence. He lives in California.
Cover of upcoming book - Dark Paths Cover art is of a winding dark road along which a yellow taxi cab is driving. The road disappears into the background and is lined with trees. In the foreground, there is a yellow sign that reads "Strangers - don't let the sun set on you here." In the top left, hovering over the title is a wasp. The text reads - Dark Paths A Queer Horror Romance Collection quote at the bottom of the cover reads - "Queer stories that are sincere, poignant, and more important not than they have ever been." - Cat Voleur, author of Revenge Arc.
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Check out our latest update:
We're posting regular focus posts on each of the upcoming stories in our 2025-2026 publications.

Glory to God by @amandamblake.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

#queerfiction #vampires #vampire #vampiregoddess #queerhorror #gayvampires #booksky 🌈📚
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October 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Check out our latest update:
We're posting regular focus posts on each of the upcoming stories in our 2025-2026 publications.

Up first - Vampire Joe by Clinton Seiter
www.kickstarter.com/projects/oth...

#gayfiction #queerfiction #vampires #vampire #gayvampires #booksky #queerwriters 🌈📚
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September 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Coming February 2026

Summer Nights, Cigarettes & Spearmint Toothpaste by @jecwrites.bsky.social is a sweet friends-to-lovers, 90s rom-com style novella, set over multiple childhood summers and an unexpected adult reunion.

#TransRomance #Transfiction #Queerfiction #Romance
Temporary cover image. A stylised graphic design of 5 green trees in an off-centre circle pointing towards the centre of the image. At the centre is the moon, which is surrounded by a glowing white-ish circle in a black sky. Text over it reads Summer Nights, Cigarettes and Spearmint Toothpaste, James Edward Cook. Coming February 2026.
August 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Coming December 2025

Dungeons, princes, thieves and games of chance in Light Paths: A Queer Fantasy Romance Collection

With novelettes by @cinnamaldeide.bsky.social and @johannestevans.bsky.social

#Fantasy #Romance #FantasyRomance #Romantasy
Temporary cover image. A stylised graphic design of a snow-capped mountain in shades of blues and whites with a mid-blue background as the sky. Off-centre, rising behind the mountain is a moon made of different shades of blue to white-ish blue rings. Text over it reads Light Paths: A Queer Fantasy Romance Collection with novelettes by Cinnamaldeide and Johannes T Evans. Coming December 2025
August 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Coming October 2025

Crossroad visitations, gods, vampires and werewasps in Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection

With novelettes by @amandamblake.bsky.social @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social, Clinton Seiter and Leigh V Twersky

#horror #romance #horrorromance
Temporary cover image. A stylised graphic design of jagged mountains in shades of brown with a lighter brown background as the sky. In the centre is a sun made of different shades of yellow and orange rings. Text over it reads: Dark Paths: A Queer Horror Romance Collection with novelettes by Amanda M. Blake, TT Madden, Clinton Seiter and Leigh V Twersky. Coming October 2025
August 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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We were so spoiled for choice with all the amazing submissions for our recent Othered Romance novelette call that we have decided to publish SIX of them!

These six stories, each with a romantic element, will be split across two collections publishing in October and December 2025.
April 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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We're joined for a Q&A by photographer, poet and literary enthusiast Ojo Victoria Ilemobayo to talk about self-acceptance and personal journeys in art and poetry. Her art was featured on the cover of a Winter 2023 issue

Check it out: www.patreon.com/posts/q-with...
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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The bittersweet taste of life.
✨Our Spring issue publishes March 15th!✨

Feat. stories from Lily Black, Colleen Anderson, @camdenscorner.bsky.social, J.A. Gross, @madihaab.bsky.social, K. Holochwost and Emalie Moore

Stay Tuned!
March 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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We will be concluding our Othered series with upcoming trans romance novella Summer Nights, Cigarettes & Spearmint Toothpaste by James Edward Cook AND and a series of short novelettes!

In 2025 we’re celebrating love and want you to join us!

Submissions open: 1st Feb to 1st March 2025
January 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Wishing the best to you all for the festive season and the coming new year!
December 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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Beautiful, alluring and tricky...

Our Winter issue is OUT NOW! Free to read or download from our website.

Feat. stories from @skriptorium.info, @riawritten.bsky.social, Gail Brown, Toshiya Kamei, and Tom Okafor.

Don't miss an issue - join our mailing list!
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December 15, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Beautiful, alluring and tricky...
Our Winter issue publishes December 15th!

Feat. stories from @skriptorium.info, @riawritten.bsky.social, Gail Brown, Toshiya Kamei, and Tom Okafor.
November 24, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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A Return: A Tale in Four Seasons follows several women on a literal and figurative journey from east to west and the magical elements they encounter along the way with themes of diaspora, water, grief, and death.
November 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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Set across multiple childhood summers and an adult reunion, Summer Nights, Cigarettes & Spearmint Toothpaste is a nineties-style rom-com, for the modern queer reader.
November 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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We're thrilled to announce upcoming novellas

Summer Nights, Cigarettes & Spearmint Toothpaste
by James Edward Cook
Publishes in July 2025

A Return: A Tale in Four Seasons
by @indalauryn.bsky.social
Publishes in September 2025

For more info: acoupofowls.com/othered/
#novellarelease #diversefiction
November 16, 2024 at 7:29 PM
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Starting to get a little bit creepy and a little bit cosy...
Our Autumn issue publishes SEPT 15th!

Feat. stories from Arvee Fantilagan, Jenna Brook, Sarah Das Gupta, @whimsydearest.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social, Euan Lim and Phillip E. Dixon

With cover art by @beatricenius.bsky.social
September 3, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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Two months until we release our 2024 anthology: Other Worlds

featuring folklore, fantasy, speculative, horror, contemporary fiction, and science-fiction exploring places, communities, and situations that are othered.

Preorders are now open! acoupofowls.com/otherworlds/
May 2, 2024 at 2:48 PM