Major update: our anthology "Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth" is a Lambda Literary Awards finalist! Thank you so much @LambdaLiterary! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐
ALT The cover of "Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth" edited by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin, showing a window view of a vibrant garden with plants in various Pride colors.
ALT A screencap from the Lambda Literary website showing the covers and titles of the finalists in the LGBTQ Anthology category:
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross, Rutgers University Press
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology edited by Michael Walsh, Autumn House Press
This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan, Saqi Books
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities Second Edition by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Oxford University Press
Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin, Speculatively Queer
Xenocultivars made the "Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy" longlist! "Folded Into Tendril and Leaf" by @bogiperson has been chosen as one of the Notable Stories of 2022: johnjosephadams.com/projectsโฆ
Laya Rose (@layahimalaya) has just been nominated for a Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Artwork for her incredible work on the "Xenocultivars" cover! Congratulations and thank you for making our book so beautiful, Laya! sffanz.nz/the-sir-julius-vogโฆ
ALT The cover of "Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth" by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin, with title and byline in dark brown against a light brown wall under an arched window looking out on a vibrant garden. On the windowsill are succulents in trans pride colors, and a climbing vine that is red at the base and extends through the rainbow, with purple at the top. Above the succulents is a rainbow dragonfly. Through the window is a garden with a pond and two trees, one with a knot in rainbow colors and mushrooms in pansexual colors. In the pond are lily pads in genderqueer colors. There is a green path snaking past flower and vegetable patches and planter boxes, through a fence into a field beyond. The front of the path is framed with tulips in asexual colors on one side and lilies in pansexual colors on the other side. There are flowers in the colors of bisexual and polysexual pride, and leafy vegetables in the colors of aromantic, lesbian, nonbinary, genderfluid, and genderqueer pride.
Laya Rose (@layahimalaya) has just been nominated for a Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Artwork for her incredible work on the "Xenocultivars" cover! Congratulations and thank you for making our book so beautiful, Laya! sffanz.nz/the-sir-julius-vogโฆ
ALT The cover of "Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth" by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin, with title and byline in dark brown against a light brown wall under an arched window looking out on a vibrant garden. On the windowsill are succulents in trans pride colors, and a climbing vine that is red at the base and extends through the rainbow, with purple at the top. Above the succulents is a rainbow dragonfly. Through the window is a garden with a pond and two trees, one with a knot in rainbow colors and mushrooms in pansexual colors. In the pond are lily pads in genderqueer colors. There is a green path snaking past flower and vegetable patches and planter boxes, through a fence into a field beyond. The front of the path is framed with tulips in asexual colors on one side and lilies in pansexual colors on the other side. There are flowers in the colors of bisexual and polysexual pride, and leafy vegetables in the colors of aromantic, lesbian, nonbinary, genderfluid, and genderqueer pride.
"Xenocultivars is a particularly excellent compilation, expertly edited and curated [...] that celebrates the many facets of queer growth and expression, both personally and culturally." Thank you @QueerSciFi for the lovely review! queerscifi.com/review-xenocuโฆ
Lovely post on small presses to the new website of Clara Ward, author of our 2024 speculative fiction novel, Be the Sea, with love to @specqueer and @ThinkNiche. Small presses really do need your love to thrive! ๐ฅฐ (So thank you for being here.) clarawardauthor.wordpress.coโฆ
The finalists for the 35th Annual Lambda Literary Awards have been announced! Go check out the best of LGBTQ literature of the year. ๐
lambdaliterary.org/awards/cuโฆ
We've kicked off our 2023 Novella Series crowdfund! Come check it out and pre-order the six novellas (plus SKIN THIEF by Suzan Palumbo) we're putting out in 2023!
kickstarter.com/projects/davโฆ
Guess whose anthology of plants and joy is a Lammy finalist this year!! Couldn't be more honored to share this with my co-contributors and our wonderful @specqueer editors ๐๐ป๐ท๐ฟ
Major update: our anthology "Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth" is a Lambda Literary Awards finalist! Thank you so much @LambdaLiterary! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐
ALT The cover of "Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth" edited by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin, showing a window view of a vibrant garden with plants in various Pride colors.
ALT A screencap from the Lambda Literary website showing the covers and titles of the finalists in the LGBTQ Anthology category:
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross, Rutgers University Press
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology edited by Michael Walsh, Autumn House Press
This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan, Saqi Books
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities Second Edition by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Oxford University Press
Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin, Speculatively Queer
The Mandrake Loves the Olive, my queerplatonic tale inspired by Palestinian herbal folklore, is in Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth which is a finalist for the #Lammys! Congrats to all of the finalists! ๐ฅณ
Major update: our anthology "Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth" is a Lambda Literary Awards finalist! Thank you so much @LambdaLiterary! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐
ALT The cover of "Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth" edited by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin, showing a window view of a vibrant garden with plants in various Pride colors.
ALT A screencap from the Lambda Literary website showing the covers and titles of the finalists in the LGBTQ Anthology category:
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture by Julie R. Enszer and Elena Gross, Rutgers University Press
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology edited by Michael Walsh, Autumn House Press
This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan, Saqi Books
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities Second Edition by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Oxford University Press
Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth by Isabela Oliveira and Jed Sabin, Speculatively Queer
Please consider giving XENOCULTIVARS a look as the nomination deadline approaches! My story Midnight Candy is eligible, as well as many other wonderful pieces
Other eligible stories from Xenocultivars:
The Aloe's Bargain by @mine_de_rien
Uncharting Territory by Jessica Yang
The Thing About the Jack-o'-Lanterns by @shelleyisms
Midnight Candy by @awritingwren
Dandelion Wishes by @leora_hugs
The Princess and the P. Sativum by @JenLRossman