Casey Plett

A novel about memory, family, and identity in which a trans woman learns her grandfather may have been trans himself.

Little Fish

Arsenal Pulp Press

Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women.

A Dream of a Woman

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn, featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love. These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but never will it be predictable.

A Safe Girl to Love

Cat Fitzpatrick

The #1 post-reality generation device approved for home use! This manual will prepare you to travel from multiverse to multiverse. No experience is required. Choose from twenty-five preset post-realities! Rejoice at obstacles unquestionably bested and conflicts efficiently resolved. Bring denouement to your drama with THE FOOLPROOF AUGMENTATION DEVICE FOR OUR CONTEMPORARY UTOPIA.

Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers

Meanwhile, Elsewhere

One of CBC Books' Canadian Nonfiction to Read in the Fall • A Tyee Best Book of 2023 We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away? We are all hinged to some definition of a community, be it as simple as where we live, complex as the beliefs we share, or as intentional as those we call family. In an episodic personal essay, Casey Plett draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger implications of community as a word, an idea, and a symbol. With each thread a cumulative definition of community, and what it has come to mean to Plett, emerges. Looking at phenomena from transgender literature, to Mennonite history, to hacker houses of Silicon Valley, and the rise of nationalism in North America, Plett delves into the thorny intractability of community's boons and faults. Deeply personal, authoritative in its illuminations, On Community is an essential contribution to the larger cultural discourse that asks how, and to what socio-political ends, we form bonds with one another.

On Community

A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett. By the author of Little Fish and A Dream of a Woman: eleven unique short stories featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love in settings ranging from a rural Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn. These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show that growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but will never be predictable. A Safe Girl to Love, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction, was first published in 2014. Now back in print after a long absence, this new edition includes an afterword by the author.

Casey Plett’s 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award (Canada). Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, and in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days. In “Hazel and Christopher,” two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. In “Perfect Places,” a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In “Couldn’t Hear You Talk Anymore,” the narrator reflects on past trauma and what might have been as she recalls tender moments with another trans woman. An ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human.

A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett. By the author of Little Fish and A Dream of a Woman: eleven unique short stories featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love in settings ranging from a rural Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn. These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show that growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but will never be predictable. A Safe Girl to Love, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction, was first published in 2014. Now back in print after a long absence, this new edition includes an afterword by the author. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Kokumo

Ana Valens

Tyler Vile

Tobi Hill-Meyer

Talia Johnson

Bridget Liang

Lawrence Walker

Rahne Alexander

Luna Merbruja

Magpie Leibowitz

Joss Barton

Ariel Howland

Sascha Hamilton

Sophia Quartz

A. K. Blue

Oti Onum

Connifer Candlewood

Serafima Mintz

Lina Corvus

Sara Oliver Wight

erica inchoate

Lillita Lustre

Chrysalisamidst

Lilith Dawn

A. R. Rushet

Boudicca Walsh

Emily Aviva-Kapor

Take a journey through the worlds of thirty (C)AMAB* trans writers in what is currently the largest collection of poetry and prose made for and by us. Featuring new work by:Luna Merbruja ¿ KOKUMO ¿ Magpie Leibowitz ¿ Joss Barton ¿ Ariel Howland ¿ Casey Plett ¿ Sascha Hamilton ¿ Sophia Quartz ¿ A.K. Blue ¿ Rahne Alexander ¿ Tobi Hill-Meyer ¿ Lawrence Walker ¿ Connifer Candlewood ¿ Serafima Mintz ¿ Talia Johnson ¿ Sugi Pyrrophyta ¿ Oti Onum ¿ Sara Oliver Wight ¿ erica, inchoate ¿ Lillita Lustre ¿ Tyler Vile ¿ Lina Corvus ¿ Bridget Liang ¿ CHRYSALISAMIDST ¿ Ana Valens ¿ Larissa Glasser ¿ Lilith Dawn ¿ AR Rushet ¿ Boudicca Walsh ¿ Rabbi Emily Aviva-Kapor ¿ and an introduction by Julia SeranoCurated and Edited by Amy Heart, Sugi Pyrrophyta, and Larissa GlasserNote: *(C)AMAB means (coercively) assigned male at birth. Our writers featured in this book exist across the gender spectrum, but do not identify with their birth assignment. Many are trans women, but some are genderqueer, non-binary, agender, or all of the above.

Surviving in the Face of Everything

Resilience

Jessica Johns

After Realism: 24 Stories for the 21st Century is the first anthology to represent the generation of millennial writers now making their mark. Diverse, sophisticated, and ambitious in scope, the short stories in this ground-breaking book are an essential starting point for anyone interested in daring alternatives to the realist tradition that dominated 20th century English-language fiction. After Realism offers twenty-five distinctive talents who are pushing against the boundaries of the "real" in aesthetically and politically charged ways--forging their styles from influences that range from myth to autofiction, sci-fi to fairy tale, documentary to surrealism. Even those who continue to work in the realist tradition are doing so critically, with an eye to renovation. The selection is accompanied by comprehensive and provocative essay by editor André Forget that explains the themes, tendencies, and concerns of this group. In bearing witness to an extraordinary flowering of contemporary fiction, After Realism will supply a new standard for Canadian writing.

24 Stories for the 21st Century

After Realism

Casey Plett's first book of short stories.

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