Do you have stories in your pocket? Have you promised yourself you’ll send them into a publisher in 2025? Here’s a grand list calls for submission and contests for the lgbtq2si+ community. Updatd monthly.

Please join Heather Plett in celebration of her latest book Where Tenderness Lives—a loving exploration of what it means to unravel what we’ve learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures in order to heal and create a purposeful and joyful life.

Join queer writer Betsy Warland for an intimate evening of reading & discussion, moderated by Word Vancouver LGBTQ2S+ curator Jen Currin.

Deviant traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships.

Waddell’s debut cozy mystery, The Body in the Back Garden, releases  in August with Crooked Lane Books. This is the first book in Waddell’s queer cozy mystery series set on Vancouver Island.

Bryce Raffle and Steven Kothlow are excited to announce the launch of their sixth book in The Littlest Dinosaur series, The Littlest Dinosaur Goes To A Wedding.