dawn.vogel | June 18, 2025
Aether Beyond the Binary (Duck Prints Press, 2024) is an anthology of speculative short stories with gender diverse characters, all revolving around a concept of aether, a semi-magical substance that has properties as different as the stories in which it features. Each of the 17 stories has a listing of “tags” at the beginning of […]
dawn.vogel | May 7, 2025
North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher (Neon Hemlock, 2024) is a collection of six linked sci-fi short stories that span 400 years, but with all but one of the stories taking place in a 100-year span. Featuring queer characters occupying a vast star-faring culture, the stories stand alone but also contribute to the larger storyline. […]
dawn.vogel | November 27, 2024
My friend Darren just sent me a tarot deck he really loves, and I now also love it. It’s the Fyodor Pavlov Tarot, which approaches the cards with a queer and gender fluid outlook. The end result is stunning artwork (definitely not safe for work) that offers a fresh approach to card interpretations and meanings, […]
dawn.vogel | November 20, 2024
Jamie Lackey’s Toil and Trouble (2024) is a delightful retelling of Pride and Prejudice that integrates witchcraft and LGBTQ+ characters seamlessly into the Regency setting, offering a fresh take on the Austen classic. The book opens with Mrs. Bennet making a deal with a witch–in exchange for her daughters Lizzie and Mary, her fifth child will be […]
dawn.vogel | October 23, 2024
I’ve gotten a ton of anthologies and novellas from Neon Hemlock, and now they’re running a Kickstarter for a new anthology, Shatter the Sun! The anthology will collect stories, a poem, a game, and a comic (and possibly more) in the queer sword and sorcery genre. You can back the Kickstarter for just this anthology or […]
dawn.vogel | October 9, 2024
Alex Kingsley’s Empress of Dust (Space Wizard Science Fantasy, 2024) is an amazingly compelling post-apocalyptic fantasy novel with magnificent worldbuilding and wonderful characters, including several LGBTQIA+ and non-human characters! Harvard is a scavenger of the wasteland and “dusts” surrounding the walled city of Bastion, but he’s the weakest member of his crew, the Ivies, and […]
dawn.vogel | September 30, 2024
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “Marginalized Genders in Fiction” was a panel where the panelists talked about the history of trans and non-binary […]
dawn.vogel | August 28, 2024
Alex Jeffers’ A Mourning Coat (Neon Hemlock, 2024) is a lushly written, cozy novella about what happens after the death of a loved one for whom you gave up much of your own life. Set in a world just slightly removed from our own, with a minimal bit of contemporary fantasy elements, the story weaves together […]
dawn.vogel | August 12, 2024
Today I have a guest post from Natania Barron, author of Netherford Hall, which she summarizes as “Pride and Prejudice and Witches,” but which also is a sapphic Regency-era tale! So I asked Natania to talk a little about queer folks (particularly women) during the Regency for her guest post today! ~ Queering the Regency As […]
dawn.vogel | July 31, 2024
Sienna Tristen’s hortus animarum: a new herbal for the queer heart (Frog Hollow Press, 2022; reprinted 2024) is a gorgeous chapbook of plant-related prose poetry with numerous queer themes running through them. While I was a little surprised to find all of the poems in this collection were prose poetry (with the exception of the […]
