The small queer press is a continuous book club at The Pond aiming to uplift queer published works from smaller -mostly indie- presses focusing on diverse stories of LGBTQIA+ life and people.
The book club runs in 2-3 month cycles, each quarter focusing on a different press. Started in 2025, we are continuing this book club throughout 2026 as well.
The Small Queer Press Book Club
no reader commitment!
read the book, or start reading it
show up to the discussion
no sign ups needed
you can go to one, or some, or all
book club is held monthly
2-3 month cycles highlighting a different queer press
the books are available at 10% discount at The Pond
the books are in english, mostly fiction
we meet the last Sunday of the month
January - “Worthy of the Event” by Vivian Blaxell Sunday 25th of January
February - “Persona” by Aoife Josie Clements Sunday 1st of March
March - “Unsex Me Here” by Aurora Mattia Sunday 29th of March
April - “Neotenica” by Joon Oluchi Lee Sunday 26th of April
May - “Nothing at All” by Olivia Tapiero Sunday 31st of May
June - “Atoms Never Touch” by Micha Cárdenas Sunday 28th of June
July - “We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories” by Margaret Killjoy Sunday 26th of July
August - “Above Us the Sea” by Ania Card Sunday 30th of August
September - “A Visitation of Spirits” by Randall Kenan Sunday 27th of September
October - “No Body No Crime” by Tess Sharpe Sunday 25th of October
November - “Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)” by Hazel Jane Plante Sunday 29th of November
December - “The Sacred Heart Motel” by Grace Kwan Sunday 27th of December
2026 Selections
February 2026 book club
February 2026 book club
“Persona”
by Aoife Josie Clements
A feral shut-in discovers a disturbing internet porn video of what seems to be herself. A seance of coked-up artists summons unearthly forces in a studio apartment. The staircase of an exurban marketing company descends endlessly beneath the earth.
In Aoife Josie Clements’ electric, nightmarish, intricately layered novel, the impossibility of goodness crowds in upon two young trans women barely surviving on sex work and zero-hours contracts. Below the familiar evils of capitalism and the bottomless depths of internet culture, a darker horror awaits. What curse follows these women? What are they escaping? What are they running towards?
Sunday
1st of March
17:00 - 18:30
Poppelgade 6, kld.
the books we read in 2025
LOOKING BACK AT
February - “Perfect Little Angels” by Vincent Anioke
March - “The Tiger Flu” by Larissa Lai
April - “Crip Kinship” by Shayda Kafai
May - “Romeo & Seahorse” by Nikolaj Tange Lange
June - “Lákíríboto” by Ayodele Olofintuade
July - “Bone Horn” by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
August - “The Summer of Dead Birds” by Ali Liebegott
September - “Skye Papers” by Jamika Ajalon
October - “We Were Witches” by Ariel Gore
November - “Noema” by Dael Akkerman
December - “H: a trash novel” by R Merey
In 2025 we explored the works published by Arsenal Pulp Press, Cipher Press, Amethyst Editions, & tRaum Books.