It’s a freaky, filthy, and likely rage fueled get-together. It’s also a book launch. Little Puss Press and Arsenal Pulp press join forces to bring you: Anton Solomonik, with his debut book Realistic Fiction; and Amber Dawn with her new poetry collection—Buzzkill Clamshell, along with Emily Zhou and Dia Felix to up the literary unruliness.

Readings to be followed by a book signing.

To reserve any of the above titles, please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve book(s) for April 27 event,” and please let us know which titles you’d like us to reserve for you in the body of the email.

Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.

Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

The Bureau will solicit donations at the beginning of the event—we especially encourage donations from those who do not plan to purchase any books.

All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.

We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD

What are people saying?

About Realistic Fiction: “My heart overflows at this long-awaited story collection, which blends Sonic the Hedgehog aesthetics with the exacting interior investigations of a trans Thomas Mann, and which answers that question through unforgettable narrators who passionately strive to become less than they are, and who fail.”

—Jeanne Thornton, Lambda Award-winning author of Summer Fun and A/S/L

About a body more tolerable: “a sophomore collection that creeps, howls, floats, shatters. an Indigenous speaker grapples with survival, the foster care system, the body, conceptions of motherhood, and trans girlhood in this heart-wrenching leap that returns what is most precious to us through lush language and keen lyricism.”

–Kinsale Drake, National Poetry Series-winning author of The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket

About Buzzkill Clamshell: “The poems in Buzzkill Clamshell showcase the author’s trademark wit and emotional range as they map the terrain of sexuality, aging, chronic illness, and trauma with gorgeous language that is somehow both shocking and subtle.”

-Kai Cheng Thom, author of Falling Back in Love With Being Human

Participants’ bios:

Anton Solomonik is a writer and illustrator living in Brooklyn. He’s the co-host of the World Transsexual Forum, a discussion panel and open mic series for trans writers and artists. His first book, Realistic Fiction, launches in April 2025 by LittlePuss Press.

Amber Dawn is a writer and creative facilitator living on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, BC). She is the author of several books, including two novels (Lambda Literary Award winner Sub Rosa and Sodom Road Exit) and two poetry collections (Where the words end and my body begins and My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems).

Dia Felix is a writer and media producer currently living in the Hudson River Valley.

Emily Zhou‘s first book, Girlfriends, won the 2023 Publishing Triangle’s Leslie Feinberg Award and was a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction. She is the “Editrix-At-Large” at LittlePuss Press and a fiction editor at Joyland Magazine. Her shorter writing has appeared in Literary Hub, e-flux journal, Xtra, Club Curran, and a few other places. She lives in New York.