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Lilac Peril Press
@lilacperil.bsky.social
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DC-based small press publishing subversive trans writing

Pre-order Issue 02: IDOLS
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poetryphone.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that my poem "Still Learning" will appear in @lilacperil.bsky.social IDOLS issue. More when it's out in the world. 🌿
September 28, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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gharial.bsky.social
heyy ;3 yall should get this esp if you wanna read my best poem
September 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
If you’ve enjoyed my sporadic musing and fixation on xenomorphs, I wrote an ode to the queen that you can find in the upcoming @lilacperil.bsky.social Issue 2: IDOLS
PRE-ORDER | Issue 02: IDOLS
COMING IN FALL 2026 Saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations. The movement leaders who have become canonized. The objects on your altar. The first trans person you ever knew. Late night prayers and ...
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September 18, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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asterolsen.bsky.social
Pre-order the story collection I'm in!

My story is about a really normal cis woman. It's called The Woman in the Tight Pink Shorts.
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 24
It’s here:

The contributor list for issue 02: IDOLS is about ten miles long and full of talent, new and proven

🕯️PRE-ORDER NOW🕯️
🪽to worship with us🪽

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August 27, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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carc.bsky.social
you heard it here first: verse felicity
August 25, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
Pick this one up if you want my juicy essay about xenomorphs.
August 24, 2026 at 10:11 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
Hey quick question, do you guys like gay wrestling and erotic violence?

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August 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
It’s here:

The contributor list for issue 02: IDOLS is about ten miles long and full of talent, new and proven

🕯️PRE-ORDER NOW🕯️
🪽to worship with us🪽

lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...
A blue graphic with a black and white photo of Candy Darling looking up and away. The text reads: Lilac Peril Issue 02: IDOLS. PREORDER NOW! Contributor List.
August 24, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
An ode to a queen, I share what xenomorphs mean to me in the upcoming Idols issue from @lilacperil.bsky.social. You can order yours at the link!
PRE-ORDER | Issue 02: IDOLS
COMING IN FALL 2026 Saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations. The movement leaders who have become canonized. The objects on your altar. The first trans person you ever knew. Late night prayers and ...
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August 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
For some reason none of the graphics posted and I’m not typing all that again so here you go 🫡
A graphic with a green background and a textile in the middle. The text reads: Lilac Peril presents, Dialogue in Mini Comics. A free workshop with Lillie J. Harris. Sunday July 25 at 6 pm. Pure Panic Comics, 8317 Fenton St, Silver Spring, MD 20910. A graphic with a green background and a photo of Lillie in front of a gallery wall. The text reads: Lillie J. Harris is a cartoonist, arts educator, and Nebula Award-nominated writer from Clinton, MD. Tension and empathy are notable themes throughout Lillie's work, as well as thanatology, horror, and no punching down. A graphic with a green background. The text reads: Q&A. Who is this workshop for? trans, non-binary, and Two-Spirit writers of all experience levels. we welcome you whether its your 1st or 100th workshop. How much does it cost? This workshop is free to attend. if you're able to, we ask that you donate to HIPS. Why should I attend? To build community, to fight despair, and to get inspired for that writing project you've been meaning to work on. A graphic with a green background and a textile star. The text reads: August workshop with Evangeline Giaconia. Sunday, August 30 at 1 pm. Rhizome DC.
July 13, 2026 at 9:04 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
🌟July’s free workshop🌟:

DIALOGUE IN MINI COMICS
with Lillie J. Harris
@lilliejharris.bsky.social

Sunday, July 25 at 6 pm

Pure Panic Comics
8317 Fenton St, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Join us for a generative evening of making zines and mini comics!
July 13, 2026 at 9:00 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
GAY SALE ENDS SOON
DON’T MISS GAY SALE
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Jun 10
🚨🚨GAY BOOKS GET YOUR GAY BOOKS 🚨🚨

Now until the end of June you can get:

20% off one book
25% off a two book bundle
30% off a three book bundle

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June 29, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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beestung.bsky.social
NEWS NEWS NEWS! beestung's Pleasure Issue is open for an extra few days for Black and Indigenous writers and writers of color! We deserve a little breathing room, and we're getting it

Deadline: 6/20
Pay: $20
Guest editor: brilliant & savvy & looking forward to reading you up & down
Theme: 🥵🫦🩲🍆🍑🎇
THE PLEASURE ISSUE: REAL + IMAGINARY SUBMISSION CLOSE: (BIPOC ONLY) 06/20/2026 FLASH FICTION + POETRY + CREATIVE NON-FICTION + ART PAY - $20.00 GUEST EDITED BY CHRISTIAN M. IVEY This issue aims to interrogate the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic through flash fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and art. Pleasure does not exist in a vacuum. Which leads to what are the relationships between what we fear and desire, and how does how we engage signify these importances?
June 15, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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alocasiamag.bsky.social
ALOCASIA is now open for applications for the 2026 ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers!

Two recipients will receive $500 each to help incubate their future creative endeavors.

Deadline: July 31st, 2026.

More: alocasia.org/alocasias-mi...
Orchid on white background. Text reads: the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. $500 award for two writers .
June 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
It’s gross 😍
saoirsecl.bsky.social Scare-se Laingolier @saoirsecl.bsky.social · Jun 10
Hi the collection with my story about queer love and cannabilism is on sale!
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Jun 10
🚨🚨GAY BOOKS GET YOUR GAY BOOKS 🚨🚨

Now until the end of June you can get:

20% off one book
25% off a two book bundle
30% off a three book bundle

lilacperil.bigcartel.com/products
June 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
I've got an essay in Issue 02: IDOLS about my fondness for the xenomorph queen, so you'll want to get that one.
June 10, 2026 at 1:12 AM
lilacperil.bsky.social
🚨🚨GAY BOOKS GET YOUR GAY BOOKS 🚨🚨

Now until the end of June you can get:

20% off one book
25% off a two book bundle
30% off a three book bundle

lilacperil.bigcartel.com/products
A graphic with a green leafy background, three book covers, and the words: GAY SALE now until the end of June. Lilacperil.bigcartel.com
June 10, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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sarahclark.bsky.social
if you like what ALOCASIA is doing, you might be interested in our current call for ecofuture writing, our $500 microgrant for queer nature writers, or one of our upcoming FREE online creative writing workshops! and we're open for standard submissions, too.

learn more: ALOCASIA.org
ALOCASIA'S EcoFutures Issue. Deadline 6/6. ALOCASIA.org. computery futurey background. Orchid on white background. Text reads: the ALOCASIA Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers. $500 award for two writers . Venus flytrap background. EJ Haley and ALOCASIA present Strange Hungers: Queering Desire through Carnivorous Plants. June 13 at 3pm EST. Free, virtual on Zoom. This cross-genre generative workshop will invite participants to examine their hungers through the lens of carnivorous plants. Drawing from the works of Kimiko Hahn and A.L. Goldfuss, as well as the care and maintenance of these unique plants, this workshop asks the participant to engage with their hungers, map their desires, and leap forward—unafraid—into strange territories. All genres welcome. Seelai Karzai and ALOCASIA present Postapocalyptic Beings at the Beginning of the World, a poetry writing workshop. July 18th at 3pm, Free, Virtual on Zoom. What can forests, swamps, grasslands, and wildlife inhabiting the earth show us about surviving exile, displacement, rootlessness, and the persistence of being? We will read and discuss a variety of poems by Franny Choi, Ross Gay, Rajiv Mohabir, and others. In this generative writing workshop, we will also have guided poetry prompts inspired by examples from our reading selections and quiet writing time to produce new poems that map out our postapocalyptic psyches.
June 1, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
You’re going to want to pick up the Idols issue from @lilacperil.bsky.social. Why? Because I’ll have an essay in it enthusing over someone very near and dear to me

the xenomorph queen. hsssssssss

I’m thrilled to have been selected for this one!
PRE-ORDER | Issue 02: IDOLS
COMING IN FALL 2026 Saints, celebrities, heroes, and fixations. The movement leaders who have become canonized. The objects on your altar. The first trans person you ever knew. Late night prayers and ...
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May 11, 2026 at 8:38 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
May’s free (virtual) workshop:

THE GENRE SELF
with Isle McElroy
Sunday, May 17 at 6 PM EST
Virtual | Registration here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-genre-...
A graphic with a photo of a figure in an elaborate costume. The text reads: Lilac Peril presents The Genre Self Virtual May 17 at 6 pm EST a free workshop for trans writers with ISLE McELROY
April 23, 2026 at 9:42 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
May 27, save the date DC!!! All the learned transsexuals will be there 🧐🍷 @submorstua.bsky.social
catfitzpatrick.net Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · Apr 22
ANNOUNCEMENT!

This MAY I shall be TOURING the NORTH-EAST making SPEECHES in HONOUR of LOVE and drinking ONLY as much WINE as I PLEASE

all to promote my new BOOK "The Dinner Party" from @sevenstories.bsky.social

Come see me and my PHILOSOPHICAL interlocutors?

🥰🍷🤔🏛️📖

#SymposiumTour #DinnerParty
May 12 – Biblioasis Bookstore (Windsor, ON) w/ THE HOUSE OF LAMB (drinks at The Dominion House) May 15 — Another Story Bookshop (Toronto, ON) w/ NIKO STRATIS (drinks at Tommy's Wine Bar) May 21 — Hive Mind Books (Brooklyn, NY) w/ RAINER HAMILTON (drinks at Carmelo's) May 25 — World Trans Forum (Brooklyn, NY) (drinks at Franklin Park, same as reading) May 26 — Greedy Reads (Baltimore, MD at the 320 W 29th St location) w/ LYRA PEACOCK (drinks at 29th St Tavern) May 27 — Lost City Books (Washington, DC) iw/ ANDREA MORGAN (drinks at The Raven) May 28 — All She Wrote Books (Somerville, MA) w/ ANDREA LAWLOR (drinks at the Tavern at the End of the World) May 30 – The Dinner Party Party ('watch out for deets”) a recent gesture of LOVE from my gf, many packets of on-sale kerrygold butter arranged in a heart around 2 loaves of einkorn brot and a smoked gouda, very heartwarming and romantic, also a pistachio chocolate, truly I am loved cat behind a bar drinking and waxing lyrical or philosophical surrounded by bottles
April 23, 2026 at 9:34 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
It’s the last day of the Trans Rights Readathon and we have hmmm mostly forgotten to post about it!!! You can pick up our newly re-issued first book, our second book (which most people think is our first lol), or pre-order our third! lilacperil.bigcartel.com/products
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March 31, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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sheerspite.bsky.social
sheer spite is run by one (1) weary transsexual and most of the stuff we publish and distribute is by other trans people, not as a moral principle but just because i love trans people and i love the work we make. #tdov
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text reading "transsexual art will live forever" surrounded by an assortment of trans zines
March 31, 2026 at 2:40 PM
lilacperil.bsky.social
ICYMI last week: we had the singular pleasure of being in conversation with our peers about publishing! electricliterature.com/the-renaissa...
The Renaissance of the Trans Magazine - Electric Literature
Eight editors behind trans periodicals discuss trans activism and the power of t4t publications
electricliterature.com
March 31, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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sqotn.bsky.social
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I can thoroughly recommend the 'Taboo' issue by Lilac Peril press.
A wonderful varied compilation of trans expression both written and visual.
Even if you're not doing the readathon you would enrich your life immeasurably by reading it.
lilacperil.bsky.social Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Oct 19
Side by side of our first book (out of print) and TABOO. She’s big!! Order your copy 💋 lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...
Lilac Peril issue zero (a white book with a purple angel on the cover) next to Lilac Peril issue one (a red book with a black angel on the cover) The spines of Lilac Peril issues zero and one next to each other
March 28, 2026 at 11:51 AM