Anthology Launch ~ School of Cvntology ~ Class of 2026

7-11 pm | Tuesday | 8th December | Piehouse Coop

Join us to celebrate the launch of our anthology, a collection of writing by the Class of 2026 School of Cvntology, a three-month trans writing course.

About the book.

In Paige text, a woman is policed by her partner for dressing too sexy when she drops off her kids. Paige’s text grapples with the shame in T4T relationship, of hurting each other and being hurt by each other. J’s texts exist on the knife edge between alternative reality and our reality. Allie reinvents a genre of stoner existentialism. Weird fiction is back. In Sufjan’s piece, our protagonist finds himself in a dazed, disassociated state on holiday, musing over the meaning of language and interpretation. Soils' community satire balances vulnerability and irony. Han’s Sebalsque writing bridges the personal and political in his quest to understand his uncle's time in prison and the policing of queer bodies.

“We believe that writing for a trans audience can produce work that is confronting, energising and, perhaps, more reflective of the contemporary moment in Britain. Over the course, many of our guest lecturers proposed that leaning into the frictions of the world we exist within might be a source for inspiration.”

Class of 2026

soil, sufjan bile, Allie Mica Oliver, Beth Preece, Dudley Dream Walsh, Freja Nicole Woolf, Georgia Hardy, Han Dee, J Min Wang, Joni McLaughlin, Keenan Lew, Laurie Ward, Lux Pyre, Paige Young, Nora Padilla and Rhian Parker.

Edited by Donna Marcus Duke and Elliot Lind

Timings
7 pm - Doors open

7.10-10.20 - Readings

10.20-11.00 - Gossip

About the course

School of Cvntology is a three-month trans writing course covering topics such as humour, autofiction, trans writing genealogy, creative research, and publishing, through weekly sessions led by guest lecturers including Morgan M Page, Traviz Alabanza, Czech Hunter Schaefer, Shon Faye, Jackie Ess, Lauren J Joseph, Claire Star Finch, Remi Graves, Maxe Crandall, Shola von Reinholdt, Sticky Fingers Publishing and Marlo D Mortimer.

About Us

The Stewards of this project are Elliot Lind and Donna Marcus Duke. It is a collaboration between our projects Camp Trans and TISSUE, both seeking to help trans people develop their crafts, skills and sense of community. With this project, we want trans people to write and grow together through peer-to-peer teaching.

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