The Queer & Trans Nonfiction Podcast

Listen in as D/Annie Liontas and I discuss navigating transition on the page, writing while “on fire,” work belonging to the reader once it’s published, striking the perfect balance of research and the personal, establishing language for brain injury, 2nd person POV, writing as resistance to erasure, turning people from your real life (living or dead) into “characters,” describing symptoms of a disability for others to understand, insomnia, crafting a collaborative essay, redaction as care, understanding that there are different ways to experience time, and lots more. Writers/Books/Things to Check Out mentioned in this episode: T Kira Madden’s essay “Against Catharsis,” Toni Morrison, Susan Sontag, Citizen by Claudia Rankine, Paul Lisicky, Kendra Winchester, Marchell Taylor, Dr. Kim Gorgens, Couple’s Therapy, Profile on Orna Guralnik in The New Yorker, Suzanne Keen ,Virginia Woolf, “Most Anticipated Queer Books” list on Electric Lit, Sara Novic, Melissa Faliveno. Links: D/Annie's Website Purchase Sex with a Brain Injury Intro/Outro Music by Lin Lin's Bandcamp Lin's Spotify

On the first ever Genre Switch episode of the QT Nonfiction pod, Mac Crane and I discuss their novel A Sharp Endless Need, as well as experimenting with form as a way to access deeper truths, interpersonal stakes in CNF, autofiction, non-traditional book structure, writing the friends-to-more-than-friends queer pipeline, the inherent eroticism of sports, shame vs. guilt, sex scenes, the motivations of secondary characters, the popularity of Heated Rivalry, Delco accents, and early 2000s emo and pop punk.   Writers/Books/Things to Watch mentioned in this episode: Hanif Abdurraqib (and his column "Notes on Hoops" in The Paris Review), Marina Mabrey at Unrivaled Philadelphia, Heated Rivalry (obviously), Task, Mare of Easttown, Long Bright River, Catcher in the Rye, Perverts (forthcoming July 2026).   Links: Mac's Website Purchase A Sharp Endless Need Intro/Outro Music by Lin Lin's Bandcamp Lin's Spotify

On episode 3 of the QT Nonfiction Pod, Jean Grae and I discuss unmasking the self while writing a memoir, creative output as “the next logical step,” audiobooks, genuine narrative voice, place as more than just setting, writing about feeling eternally displaced, exploring abstract ideas through smaller, concrete things, repetition, the capitalism of it all, older generations finding language for queerness and gender, gently leading readers toward understanding gender affirming care, who’s “allowed” to write memoir, and quantum physics?   Links: Jean’s Website Purchase In My Remaining Years In My Remaining Years Audiobook Intro/Outro Music by Lin Lin's Bandcamp Lin's Spotify

On episode 2 of the QT Nonfiction Pod, Richard Scott Larson and I discuss his memoir, The Long Hallway, as well as topics like braiding parallel narratives, attempting to write a novel and realizing it needs to be CNF, blending memoir and cultural critique of a single film for the entire length of a book, horror as a reenactment of the repressed, writing queer isolation and voyeurism, craft vs. content in memoir reception, extended metaphor, understanding representation in retrospect, writing an "interior" memoir, and more. Writers/Books/Things to Check Out or Watch mentioned in this episode: Halloween (the film), Carol Clover, It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, University of Wisconsin Press' "Living Out" Series, werewolf stories, Overcompensating, Friday the 13th. Links: Richard's Website Purchase The Long Hallway: A Memoir Intro/Outro Music by Lin Lin's Bandcamp Lin's Spotify

The inaugural episode of the QT Nonfiction Pod, featuring a conversation with author KB Brookins during which we discuss KB's journey as a writer, their inspirations, using footnotes, representation, telling our own stories instead of letting others tell them for us, putting top surgery contemplation on the page, weaving poetry into memoir, telling the truth in CNF even when it paints us in a not-so-great light, and more. Writers/Books/Things to Read mentioned in this episode: Kiese Laymon, Hanif Abdurraqib, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Assata: An Autobiography, Angela Davis, Wild by Cheryl Strayed, Melissa Febos, Teen Vogue Op Eds, HuffPost Op Eds, Matt Ortile. Links: KB's Website Purchase Pretty: A Memoir Follow KB on Instagram & TikTok @earthtokb Intro/Outro Music by Lin Lin's Bandcamp Lin's Spotify

An introduction from host and author, Jackie Domenus, explaining the who, the what, and the why behind the QT Nonfiction Podcast. Intro/Outro Music by Lin Lin's Bandcamp Lin's Spotify