Submissions are open for the upcoming October & November issues of the Trans Women Writers Booklet Series. Pls message me if you’re a trans woman of color interested in publishing a chapbook, zine, or short fiction through the series; we’re currently working on releasing our 18th issue & are paying $300 to each booklet author.
There are no genre/subject matter restrictions for publishing, but there
is a minimum length for the overall text: at least 5k to 10k words of
prose or 28-44 manuscript pages of poetry. We don’t have formal
guidelines & are open to publishing visual/experimental work too. Also, it’s okay to send in work that has been previously published online since the focus of the series is releasing your work into print. Feel free to send me any questions you might have. Thanks!
Things are not getting better. I have to see a special doctor to see why the fuck my body is constantly in pain and making my arms and legs twitch while having to pay for meds and bills coming up. I have sent in multiple applications but no call backs and I need to eat. Help my disabled ass out, please?
Hey, the booklet series I edit just released a collection of radical trans poetry featuring work by Sara Bess, Venus Di'Khadijah Selenite, Albert Lee, Dahlia Saint Knives, and Abeni Jones. I’m especially proud of the fact that we were able to pay our writers a combined total of $500 for this issue.
Like all our previous issues, booklet #14 is free for everyone to download as a pdf over at our patreon. Please read our work and share this link to help us keep publishing (and paying!) trans women writers.
Hi guise, my acct is $15 in the negative (maitenance fee) & I could use some help paying that off so I don’t incur an overdraft fee (I’m freshly out of serious debt & can’t afford any screw ups) I also need money to eat today. Nobody is obligated to help at all but help is always appreciated🙏🏾 Thank you
It’s unclear what she is dealing with but these were tweeted shortly ago. Miss Major has a monthly donation fund here on Fundly, so consider contributing if you aren’t already—she’ll likely need the extra support during and after her hospitalization.
anyone wanna help a poor trans girl eat ? i’m recently jobless & digging thru my savings & i have lots of quality of life disability expenses i’d love to be able to afford :>
Hi, I just released a new chapbook of prose poems titled LA REGIÓN BAJO TIERRA. It’s about stuff like memory, sex work, communism, and insomnia. You can download a free pdf of the chapbook here, and buy a physical copy for $5 here. The front cover is my own art/design, based on these lines from poem #19: The body was a lie. What is human is a gathering of eyes; turning, turning all at once.
Please share this to support my work! If you’re able to purchase a copy, it will be a huge help as I’m trying to save up to buy a cheap new laptop (my current one is +7 years old smh), which will help me out a lot with things like editing this booklet series and my other other (sw) work.
Also, everyone should go read Michelle Evans’ new poetry collection that was just released as May’s issue in the booklet series. Here’s what I wrote about her collection titled Just Another Dead Black Girl:
With the length of the line as her instrument of choice, which wraps around tightly into prose-like columns of text and breaks off suddenly into searing phrases that serve to punctuate and organize the narrative, Evans lays out a map into this region. And it is both across a landscape of distinct memories of violence and with them as companions that we move through the poems in order to arrive at the heart of the things: the violence of the family, of capitalism, of gender, and of the social and legal regime of anti-blackness that condemned Nia Wilson.
We arrive also at the interior, at heartbreak and aching desire that cannot be erased even by so much death. We find ourselves here in this portrait of a survivor, who facing constant danger still wants and even pierces the devastation with her wanting. The culmination of which is the writing of this collection which places Evans among the very icons she invokes: there was Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou, now there is Michelle Evans.
making another post because donations from the last one have stopped. my dear friend & roommate robin is stuck working a job that’s godawful for their mental health. they need help affording extra expenses, most importantly saving up for a laptop, which they need to make music & do sex work.
thanks to everyone’s donations, robin was able to make their first appointments for hrt and therapy! please continue to reblog/donate so this beautiful person can thrive 💖 her twitter is @cuntgiomerate, where there is also a link to her onlyfans account if you’re over 18 and interested in supporting her work!
hey, i haven’t posted here in a while, but i wanted to say that the trans women writers booklet series is still doing really exciting work. we’re now two issues into our 2nd year of publication & we already have our next few issues mapped out for this summer.
in other news - and sorry this is so late! - we’re publishing a collection of radical trans poetry next month (radical defined as anti-capitalist, as gesturing towards another world, as extending beyond the “I” and giving a sense of collective struggle/joy/action) & submissions will be open for at least another week (until june 3rd). please email me if you’re interested! even if you can’t make this deadline, i’m planning a vol. 2 of this radical trans poetry booklet for next year, so get in touch!
I’m not giving up. I’m gonna keep trying to survive and stay in this home. But I’m pretty much eating one meal a day and only taking half my meds, and even that’s going to be hard to do soon. I have money coming in from a couple of writing jobs, but it’s gong to be a little while before I see any of it. If anyone is willing to offer even a little more help, it would go a long way towards getting me to a place where I can start taking care of myself again.
Hey gang, I am indeed alive, and hoo, has this been one one hell of a complicated month for me, but I have some really great news.
Thanks to Jamie Berrout and the Trans Women Writers Collective, I’ve got a booklet coming out on March 1st featuring part one of my sci-fi serial “Woman is the Machine That I Am”.
It’s a sci-fi story about a robot girl who struggles amidst her experiences trying to understand gender, her body, and the very nature of G-d, all while trying to survive living under the control of a “father” who, in his own mind, is no less than a god himself.
This is my first time getting my own fiction published in an actual, physical medium, and I am super proud of it and love what Jamie’s done putting the booklet together, and you can get a look at it in pdf format right now at the above link, as well as pdfs of the entire TWWC back catalogue which I worked through while I was writing this and it’s all really effing good.
However, if you’re in the US, you can get a physical copy next month by subscribing to the Patreon for just $7 with a discounted price available for trans women. By subscribing, you’ll not only be getting what is sure to be a piece of (at least my) literary history in a format that will survive the eventual downfall of the internet and digital media, but you’ll also be helping to support me as a writer and the Trans Women Writers Collective which has been consistently putting out quality writing from some incredibly bright and talented trans women, amplifying their voices, and providing a unique publishing opportunity that allows for the sharing of what I feel is more raw, vibrant, and unfiltered creative expression than what you’d get from a larger, more generalized distributor.
So yeah, please check out my story! I worked really hard on it and hope y’all like it as much as you’ve enjoyed everything else I’ve written. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Tumblr feed experience~
