TRANS VOICES IN HORROR LAUNCH EVENT

Come join us at The Twisted Spine to celebrate and support Trans Voices in Horror! The event will feature readings by special guests and the Trans Voices in Horror zine will be available for purchase.

All proceeds from zine sales will be donated to Advocates for Trans Equality, a nonprofit organization fighting for the legal and political rights of transgender people in America.

About the Zine:

A poetry anthology of the spectral, haunted, and bloodlusting, Trans Voices in Horror is the inaugural print publication of Bloodletter Magazine. Showcasing contemporary work by a dozen trans, non-binary, and two-spirit writers and illustrators, this collection amplifies the genderqueer lens on horror and the ways in which the trans experience informs the genre—as well as the other way around.

Bloodletter is a biannual feminist horror magazine publishing personal and analytical perspectives on the horrific by women, trans, and non-binary writers. Offering an exploratory space for writers to share their lived experiences of horror and the theoretical implications of the genre, Bloodletter is at core a community bonded by the alchemic capacity of storytelling to transform horror into liberation. For more information, visit bloodlettermag.com.

About the Readers:

Dana Belott is a trans poet, multidisciplinary artist, and teacher from woodsy New Jersey. Their work explores ghosts, queer desire, and the body. Dana received their MFA from Pratt Institute after 5 years teaching creative writing in middle and high schools. They have published over 50 volumes of their students’ writing and are dedicated to art-making as a community practice.

Ripley A. Mandanis is a transgender lesbian writer, organizer, educator, and mechanic based in Queens. Her writing is featured in new worlds {press}, No, Dear, Left Voice, WMN, exquisites, and Promethean, as well as in the upcoming issue of Lilac Peril. She also teaches the Transness in Storytelling Workshop at SUNY Westchester.

Claire Orrange is a writer and actress living in Brooklyn. She typically sticks to fiction, but in those moments when she strays to criticism, her dashed dream of being a scholar of the Gothic briefly reawakens. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature from Harvard University.

Goldie Peacock writes stories, essays, and poems. Their words appear in HuffPost, Sundog Lit, MoonPark Review, and more, as well as Monster Beauties, a Maine trans poetry anthology. Celebrations of their writing include Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfictions nominations. Having lived in six states across the Northeast and Midwest, Goldie now calls Brooklyn home and can be found on goldiepeacock.com.

Veronica Rowan is a transsexual writer, musician, community organizer, and educator. She is notoriously sleepy, and has been known to drift off in unfortunate places. She is a devotee of Sappho