Tune in live on YouTube on Saturday 18 July (11.30am NZ / 9.30am SYD / 7.30am HK / 12.30am UK / 7.30pm NYC (Fri)) to hear from NZ trans authors Rem Wigmore and Always Becominging as they discuss visibility as trans writers, the stories they tell for their community, and why it’s so important to do so, especially in today’s world.

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REM WIGMORE

Rem Wigmore is a speculative fiction writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, author of the Vengeful Wild duology (Foxhunt and Wolfpack). Rem’s other works include Riverwitch and The Wind City. Their short fiction is published in venues including Baffling Magazine, Reckoning Magazine and two Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy anthologies.

In 2023 Rem won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Fan Writing with their climate fiction essay Conservation, Red in Tooth and Claw.

Rem’s probably a changeling, but you’re stuck with them now. The coffee here is just too good.

Instagram: @remwigmore
Website: remwigmore.com

ALWAYS BECOMINGING

Always Becominging is a gock-swinging, piss-drinking, autistic, stoner, transexual pervert. Her book I Am a Human Being (Compound Press, 2020) won the Jessie Mackay Prize for a Best First Book of Poetry at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Instagram: @alwaysbecominging