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DC-based small press by and for trans writers, with an eye for the subversive and experimental. Issue 01: TABOO available now: https://lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issue-01-taboo

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Jun 2

Issue 01: TABOO collects 30+ trans writers and artists all asking: when the cis world at large sees our very lives at taboo, what do trans people still not want to talk about amongst ourselves?

Releasing in Summer 2025. PRE-ORDER NOW: lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

PRE-ORDER Issue 01: Taboo

PRE-ORDER - ships Summer 2025 When the fact of our existence is taboo, what do trans people still not want to talk about, even amongst ourselves?...

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 10h

Plus! Save the date for November with @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 10h

And then the reading is a few weeks later at People’s Book locally in Takoma Park, MD 🥰

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 10h

The workshop is virtual and free and that means 🫵YOU🫵 can attend www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-writ...

workshop topic
HOW TO "KILL LIES:"
WRITING AGAINST
RECEIVED LANGUAGE
Nico Walker, the infamous bankrobber-turned-novelist,
once wrote in BookForum, "Any writer worth a fuck should be in the business of killing lies." This generative writing workshop will consider the clichés, disinformation, and reductive language that plague minority writers specifically and employ them as writing prompts. We will begin by looking at some remarkable lie-killers across identity groups and history (potential writers include Torrey Peters, Andrea Long Chu, Imogen Binnie, Kay Gabriel, Leslie Feinberg, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Ralph Ellison, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, Charles Yu, Mosab Abu Toha, and Nafissa Thompson-Spires) and finish with a writing exercise in which we, as trans artists, write directly against and past the language wrongly applied
to us.
Sat, October 18 at 2 PM EST
Virtual, registration in bio

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 10h

Can you believe we forgot to post this here? We are doing a DOUBLE FEATURE this month with THE @maxdelsohn.bsky.social to celebrate the release of Crawl !!!

Lilac Peril presents
Max Delsohn's
DOUBLE FEATURE
virtual workshop
Sat, October 18 at 2 PM EST
HOW TO "KILL LIES:" WRITING AGAINST RECEIVED LANGUAGE
reading + q & a
Wed, October 29 at 6 PM EST
PEOPLE'S BOOK
7014-A WESTMORELAND AVE,
TAKOMA PARK, MARYLAND 20912

Max Delsohn's writing appears
in McSweeney's
Quarterly Concern, VICE, Joyland, The Rumpus, and Triangle House, among other places. His debut short story collection, Crawl, about trans men in Seattle during the 2010s, will be published by Graywolf Press on Oct. 21, 2025. He earned his MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 7d

Our auction raised $500, split between Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid and Alice Correia Barbosa’s legal fund 🥳 massive thanks to everyone who bid, and especially to our contributors who donated their work

A picture of Lilac Peril’s book TABOO with text above it that reads “$500 raised to defend migrant rights in DC”

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 17d

Endless thanks to @submorstua.bsky.social and @lukejsuth.bsky.social for letting a middle aged lady work out her nineties and aughties shit in print. Copies of @lilacperil.bsky.social are still available to order but will sell out quick — grab one while you still can.

Image of a book with title Lilac Peril: Taboo

Image of the inside page of a book of an essay entitled, cause Susanna and the legacy of mid-century transvestites

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 22d

Get your gut repeatedly punched for the low price of just $20! lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

TTMadden GORMAN'S HOUSE out now! @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social · 22d

Have to work my way through TABOO by @lilacperil.bsky.social slowly because every single piece is an absolute fuckin gutpunch and I need time to recover.

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 23d

Ends at midnight!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our launch events are a wrap! We still have plenty of auction items that you can bid on for the next week. All money goes to migrant mutual aid in DC auctria.events/migrantsolid...

Home page of the Lilac Peril auction for migrant rights in Washington DC

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 24d

A little more than a day left!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our launch events are a wrap! We still have plenty of auction items that you can bid on for the next week. All money goes to migrant mutual aid in DC auctria.events/migrantsolid...

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Alana Storm @alanastorm.bsky.social · 24d

Late on this -- but if you have a few bucks to spare and want to spill them to keep the horrors at bay my publishing friends over at Lilac Peril have a fundraiser and auction (zines, books, services) going to support Alice Barbosa and migrant mutual aid more generally in the DC area.

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our launch events are a wrap! We still have plenty of auction items that you can bid on for the next week. All money goes to migrant mutual aid in DC auctria.events/migrantsolid...

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 10

Lots of cool shit from contributors! auctria.events/migrantsolid...

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 10

Our launch events are a wrap! We still have plenty of auction items that you can bid on for the next week. All money goes to migrant mutual aid in DC auctria.events/migrantsolid...

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Aster Olsen @asterolsen.bsky.social · Sep 9

sneak peak:
@lilacperil.bsky.social

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Aster Olsen @asterolsen.bsky.social · Sep 9

Join me and several other trans authors tonight for the virtual launch of TABOO, the latest anthology from Lilac Peril. I'll be reading from my story about a guy who makes sissy hypno porn music videos.

www.eventbrite.com/e/taboo-virt...

TABOO virtual book launch

Celebrate the launch of Lilac Peril’s Issue 01: TABOO, a collection of 30+ trans contributors writing on the margins, with a virtual reading

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SCAREse GHOULnor @saoirsecl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Today I became a published author thanks to the lovely people at @lilacperil.bsky.social

Saoirse reads her newly published story. She’s wearing a purple floral blouse and a black skirt.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 7

See you in three hours 💋

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 22

TABOO is almost here 😈 celebrate with us on Sunday, September 7 at Lost City Books for an evening of readings from contributors and other literary perversions

A black and white illustration of an angel holding a sword, along with the text:

HARK! Lilac Peril & Lost City Books presents the TABOO LAUNCH PARTY. Celebrate the launch of Lilac Peril's Issue 01: TABOO, a collection of 30+ trans contributors writing on the margins. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 FROM 5 - 7 PM at

Lost City Books
2467 18th St NW,
Washington, DC 20009

readings * refreshments * perversions

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Sep 5

The books are HERE 🫦

A million thanks to the extraordinary @radixcoop.bsky.social

Copies will be for sale at our launch event THIS SUNDAY 9/7 at Lost City Books, but there’s still time to pre-order from us directly 💋

lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issu...

Andrea smiling in front of a trunk full of boxes

The workshop space of Radix Co-Op featured lots of beautiful posters on the wall

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 30

We agree! See you there :)

Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · Aug 30

I think celebrating trans art in DC feels even more essential right now. I hope to see you all in Lost City Books next weekend!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 22

TABOO is almost here 😈 celebrate with us on Sunday, September 7 at Lost City Books for an evening of readings from contributors and other literary perversions

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EASEL @readeasel.bsky.social · Aug 10

Submissions open 🏃‍♀️

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 22

We will be auctioning signed copies and other fun stuff at both events to fundraise for @dcmigrantmutualaid.org We love our city so much. Fascists can’t have it!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 22

If you’re not local or can’t make it, pls consider coming to our virtual launch a few days later on Tuesday, September 9 :) www.eventbrite.com/e/taboo-virt...

A black and white illustration of baphomet but with the face of a cunty woman, along with text reading:

REJOICE! Lilac Peril cordially invites you to our VIRTUAL BOOK LAUNCH, a night of literary perversions.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 AT 8 PM EST

REGISTER FOR LINK

Celebrate the launch of Lilac Peril's Issue 01: TABOO, a collection of 30+ trans contributors writing on the margins.

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 22

TABOO is almost here 😈 celebrate with us on Sunday, September 7 at Lost City Books for an evening of readings from contributors and other literary perversions

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 22

Tomorrow!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Aug 1

August workshop topic is comics! :)

ft. guest instructor Connie Jin

Free, no experience required, materials provided

RSVP: www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...

LILAC PERIL PRESENTS trans writing workshop
with guest instructor
CONNIE JIN
SATURDAY, August 23 at 10 am
Rhizome DC
6950 Maple St NW, Washington, DC 20012

workshop topic:
comics q&a and workshop
Learnabout making nonfiction comics from professional comics journalist, and leave with a mini comic of your own! We'll start with an introduction to this kind of storytelling and end with a beginner-friendly exercise to start making your own comics, with room for questions. Supplies will be provided.

guest instructor:
CONNIE JIN
Connie Jin (they/them) is an artist, visual journalist and dancer based in Washington D.C. They write and publish comics through NPR, in addition to creating data visualizations and graphics for news stories. Recently, they spent time in Joshua Tree National Park researching for a graphic novel as an artist in residence with the National Park Service. You can usually find them dancing, whether it's in their kitchen or in a studio.

Who is this workshop for?
trans, non-binaty, and Two-Spirit writers of all experience levels. we welcome you whether its your 1st or 100th workshop.
how much does it cost? nothing! the workshop is 100% free to all.
Why should I go?
to build community, to fight despair, and to get inspired for that writing project you've been meaning to work on.

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cody lyoko @ruecodey.bsky.social · Aug 14

i wrote a short story in this btw. please buy it and come to the launch party in DC on 9/7

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · Jun 2

PRE-ORDER Issue 01: Taboo

PRE-ORDER - ships Summer 2025 When the fact of our existence is taboo, what do trans people still not want to talk about, even amongst ourselves?...

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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · Aug 13

It is easy to feel this way but I truly think, for trans writers at least, writing books now is urgent. Write good books about your friends, get them printed, get them widely distributed, get them in the world. There has never before been an opportunity like the one we currently possess to do this.

kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · Aug 11

is there anything more pointless right now that writing a book? feels that way to me

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