Category: news
Announcements of new releases, events, collaboration works, interviews, etc. Updates, works in progress, and other commentaries in newsletter.
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Call for Smut: Venus Saturn Square returns
UPDATE 17 MAY 2020: Nobody’s been asking but the second issue of this zine is on indefinite hold, due to my lack of capacity thru this pandemic. Will pick it up when the time is right. Reach out to me with any questions you may have. CALL FOR SMUT: Slow-moving /venus saturn sqaure/ zine returns.…
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The fate of All That’s Left zine
As the web master/low-key archivist of mine and METROPOLARITY‘s efforts over the years, I recently realized that there was little mention or even an image of my old All That’s Left zine series here. Although ATL is a featured category of my writing and likewise a persistant feature of my draft stories pile, would you…
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VENUS SATURN SQUARE smut zine, a physical reality
Is it possible to write yourself out of a blocked situation and into your own fantasies? VENUS SATURN SQUARE took corporeal form on Palm Sunday 2019. It debuted IRL at the Philly leg of Hot Bits queer xxx film festival on April 26th & 27th at Lightbox Film Center, and later had its own noteworthy…
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CLOG Magazine & Transcendent 3
I finally got my hands on two late 2018 releases not of my own self-publishing: CLOG magazine’s artificial intelligence themed issue and Lethe Press’s best trans SFF of 2017 collection, Transcendent 3. Transcendent 3 follows in Transcendent 2’s footsteps with a nicely sized collection of short sci-fi/fantasy stories by trans authors. The Transcendent series reprints…
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What Color Is Blue
Yours truly appears as a character in a scene from
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Transitional Times Transitional Body: a new short story collection
This (25-count zine-now) book follows a few personal (or I suppose artistic) decisions I made after working with outside publishers, wherein I told myself not to forget that writing for myself and my network is what’s most rewarding, both spiritually and financially. It contains four stories, two that were published in 2017, and two that…
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METROPOLARITY’s BAD USER AGREEMENT
BAD USER AGREEMENT, the latest episode of METROPOLARITY‘s Journal of Speculative Vision & Critical Liberation Technologies, is finally here. From conception to publication, this release took a few seasons and is the result of us doing the work according to our capacities and desires, rather than some production minded shit. It was also originally intended…
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VENUS SATURN SQUARE call for submissions
Calendar Dates First Drafts Due• November 16th [Friday]• send to magusmonk @ protonmail . com• don’t worry about word count Prompts & WorksheetsDesire Practice [PDF | text] Anticipated Release & Reading Soiree• Winter A Venus Saturn square? This aspect sometimes means unhealthy sensuality. They are hard, and do not know how to express their emotions.…
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SEXINESS: Rituals, Revisions, and Reconstructions
Find a 2016 time capsule of yours truly in Discipline Press’s latest release. This book is 100% something I would be going to the South Street Tower Records every day after school to look at, and I’m winking at my 13 year old self as a contributor in it. So many beautiful essays in there,…
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Discipline Welcomes Beauty ~ A Cleaning & Organizing Grimoire
This feels appropriate for spring & the start of the zodiac year. A long-awaited grimoire regarding cleaning and organizing, something I seem to be known for/something I do for myself and also feel conflicted about. I used to be a very messy child. You couldn’t see the floor in my room, and I would dash…
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Meanwhile, Elsewhere & Transcendent 2
In 2017 I had two stories published in these two trans SFF anthologies. These were my first experiences outside of self-publishing, having stories published under contract in exchange for a dollar amount. Topside Press’s anthology got HEAT DEATH OF WESTERN HUMAN ARROGANCE and Lethe Press’s anthology got ABOUT A WOMAN AND A KID. Neither story…
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non-binary world buildling ~ Shameless Mag interview
The homie Estraven interviewed me about non-binary storytelling for a trans n women youth mag, Shameless. I liked this interview! Here’s an excerpt: Often when we hear the word binary it’s associated with the gender binary. But are there other binaries that you are exploring with your work? ALL OF THEM. Ok, well I think…