Join us this Friday the 13th of December for a good old time.
Twinks live among us. Loving, lying, sashaying, betraying. Storming the tower of Belzarian the Sorcerer, wandering the eldritch streets of Shoggothtown, and seizing power on Bavarrón Eleven. Since the dawn of time, a cry has rung out across the stars… I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED!
For too long, queer voices have been kept at the margins of pulp science fiction and fantasy. Now, seventeen brave authors have taken up their pens to right that wrong and push the boundaries of excess, masculinity, and good taste.
About the Editors
Trip Galey (he/him) is a writer, a doctor of the academic persuasion, and a researcher of all things pursuant to bargains, exchanges, and compacts of a faery nature. He is ⅓ of the founding team at Bona Books, ½ of multiple writing partnerships, and 100% geek. Mostly harmless. His debut novel, A Market of Dreams and Destiny, was shortlisted for the 2024 Mythopoeic Award for Best Adult Novel. Find him at TripGaley.com or join Patreon.com/TripGaley.
Robert Berg (he/him) is a London-based writer, critic, editor, copywriter, and proofreader. His reviews have appeared in the British-Fantasy-Award-winning, Hugo-Award-nominated Speculative Fiction 2012 anthology. In his other incarnation as amateur Jim Henson expert, he is also the founder of HensonBlog.com. It is unclear whether he is more man or Muppet.
C.L. McCartney (he/him) is a writer and editor of fantasy, science fiction and—somewhat to his surprise—queer horror. His most recent short fiction can be found in the anthology The Crawling Moon (Neon Hemlock, 2024). He is Managing Director of Bona Books and the final ⅓ of its founding triumvirate.
About some of the authors:
James Bennett
James Bennett (he/him) is a British writer raised in Sussex and South Africa. His short fiction has appeared internationally, and he's been twice shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award, first in 2017 for his acclaimed debut CHASING EMBERS and again in 2023 for his short story 'MORTA', which appeared in the well-received THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS. His latest fiction can be found in The Dark magazine, BFS Horizons and Occult Detective magazine. A short story collection PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED should see the light of day in 2024. James lives in the South of Spain where he's working on a new novel.
John Berkeley
John Berkeley (he/him) is a queer British writer and Classics (archaeology) PhD raised in Cambridgeshire and now living in Berkshire, where he spends his time writing speculative fiction novels and short fiction. Dusk and Dawn in the Grand Bazaar is his first published work. Others are on their way.
Aliette de Bodard
Aliette de Bodard (she/her) writes speculative fiction: she has won three Nebula Awards, an Ignyte Award, a Locus Award, and six British Science Fiction Association Awards. She is the author of A FIRE BORN OF EXILE, a sapphic Count of Monte Cristo in space (Gollancz/JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 2023), and of OF CHARMS, GHOSTS AND GRIEVANCES (JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc, 2022 BSFA Award winner), a fantasy of manners and murders set in an alternate 19th Century Vietnamese court. She lives in Paris.
Christopher Caldwell
Christopher Caldwell (he/him or they/them) is a queer Black American living in Glasgow, Scotland with his partner, podcaster Alice Caldwell-Kelly. He is a recipient of the Octavia E. Butler memorial scholarship. His work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, and New Suns 2.
Kieran Craft
Kieran Craft (he/him) is a writer from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand). He is the playwright behind gay Irish romance Four Nights in the Green Barrow Pub, and now spends his time writing queer science fiction and fantasy stories, when he’s not teaching high schoolers English, or watching multi-hour video essays on niche topics.
Julie Danvers
Julie Danvers (she/hers) is a queer Chicagoan who writes spec fiction that usually starts out as horror and ends up as a comedy of errors. She is the author of a whopping seven Mills & Boon novels, each one more melodramatic than the last. As penance for her literary crimes, she also writes short fiction, some of which has appeared in The Arcanist, Sundial Magazine, and Pulp Modern Flash.
Rien Gray
Rien Gray is a queer, nonbinary, and intersex author of sapphic romance, fantasy, and horror. They are the author of the award-winning Fatal Fidelity series starring a nonbinary assassin, and currently writing a trans and lesbian-centered Arthuriana romantasy series, which starts with VALERIN THE FAIR. Their short fiction is published in the Opulent Syntax, Shredded, Unreal Sex, BRUTE, and Heckin' Lewd anthologies. They live in Chicago.
Brent C. Lambert
Brent C. Lambert (he/him) is a Black, queer man who heavily believes in the transformative power of speculative fiction across media formats. As a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine, he turned that belief into action and became part of a Hugo Award winning team. He resides in San Diego.
Bailey Maybray
Bailey Maybray (he/him) is a queer, Bostonian sci-fi and fantasy writer who drinks too much mango green tea for his own good. He creates strange and wonderful worlds with bizarre, often-queer perspectives, from cyborg alien octopi to robotic play directors. Find him @bailey_maybray on X (formerly Twitter).
Ng Yi-Sheng
Ng Yi-Sheng (he/him) is a Singaporean writer, researcher and activist with a keen interest in Asian history and myth. He’s been published in Clarkesworld and Strange Horizons—check out his Pushcart-nominated essay “A Spicepunk Manifesto” and his BSFA-longlisted “A Not-So-Swiftly Tilting Planet”— and is author of the speculative fiction collection Lion City (winner of the Singapore Literature Prize). Additionally, he served as editor of A Mosque in the Jungle: Classic Ghost Stories by Othman Wok and EXHALE: an Anthology of Queer Singapore Voices. His website is ngyisheng.com, and he tweets and Instagrams at @yishkabob.
Anthony Oliveira
Anthony Oliveira AKA @meakoopa is a multiple National Magazine and GLAAD award-winning author, film programmer, pop culture critic, and PhD living in Toronto. His work is in a myriad of genres, often incorporating queer themes, and spans comics, prose, journalism, and academic research.
Caleb Roehrig
Caleb Roehrig (he/him) is a former actor and television producer who currently divides his time between Chicago and Helsinki. An expert at writing on planes, his young adult titles include TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN, LAST SEEN LEAVING, WHITE RABBIT, DEATH PREFERS BLONDES, and THE FELL OF DARK.
Adam Sass
Adam Sass (he/him) began writing in Sharpie on the backs of Starbucks pastry bags. (He’s sorry it distracted him from making your latte.) He’s the author of the buzzy YA novels Surrender Your Sons, The 99 Boyfriends of Micah Summers, and Your Lonely Nights Are Over, which have been featured in The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Today. His next, Cursed Boys and Broken Hearts, releases July 2024. He lives in Palm Springs with his husband and dachshunds.
Malcolm Schmitz
Malcolm Schmitz (he/him) writes about queer autistic joy. His steampunk sapphic scientist short story, “The Captain’s Sphere”, made the Long List for the 2015 Otherwise Award. He’s currently working on a children’s book about a lost trans prince reclaiming his birthright (ask him about the giant mechanical elephants!) He lives in Ohio with his partner, and spends entirely too much time playing the Sims 2.
William C. Tracy
William C. Tracy (he/him) writes and publishes queer science fiction and fantasy through his indie press Space Wizard Science Fantasy. His largest work is the Dissolutionverse: a space opera with music-based magic. He’s also published Fruits of the Gods, an epic fantasy with seasonal fruit magic, How To Operate Your Body, a nonfiction book about body mechanics and correct posture, and The Biomass Conflux, a sci-fi trilogy with colony ships and a planet covered by a sentient fungus. William is an NC native, has a master’s in mechanical engineering, has trained in Wado-Ryu karate since 2003, and keeps bees.
Derrick Webber
Derrick Webber (he/him) thrives on the banks of the mighty Fraser River in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is privileged to write and play on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. He pinballs between queer sci-fi, queer rom-coms and queerish YA - shorties to novels. His short fiction has been published twice and his non-fiction, think any big number. He walks a thrilling tightrope between cutting edge and utterly past it.
Charlie Winter
Based in Australia, Charlie Winter is an academic by day and, by night, still an academic but much more distractible about it. When not performing the inexplicable rituals of academia, he writes fantasy fiction celebrating everyday magic, eco-optimism, and queer identities, out of which he has three short fiction publications.