Through poetry, experimental narration, and near future story telling, four trans authors dive into the space where the internal world –through mental illness, insomnia, dissociation, love, a tired existence, and dark femininity– meets the physical experience –in herbal tea, nature, pharmaceuticals, ghosts, bureaucratic violence, corporate-esque city scapes, and BDSM spaces.
Gather with us as D Mortimer, Alma Silva, Freja Ro, and Luka Holmegaard read their writings from past and present. Opening the floor to discuss the co-morbidities of trans living today.
D Mortimer is a writer and artist from London interested in the crip unknown. They are an academic, author and playwright. Their debut collection, Last Night a Beef Jerk Saved My Life was published by Pilot Press London in 2021. Mortimer held a techne scholarship at The University of Roehampton where they also completed their doctorate in trans autofictions. Their monograph Speed Glum Hero was published with Sticky Fingers Publishing in Autumn 2024.
Alma Silva is a Brazilian artist based in Copenhagen. In 2025, she published Figure 8, a short novel about self-mythology, time-travelling, and transformation. She is currently developing her second novel as she continuously explores self-authorship and queer mythologies in contemporary literature. She holds a BA of Arts in English from the University of Copenhagen.
Freja Ro’s debut came out in 2024. She writes from a deeply personal space, and her poems circulate about masculinity and healing. Her next collection of poems will be released in the spring of 2026. Here she explores mental illness from a trans perspective. The protagonist finds ease in prayer and herbal tea, while spending the nights either more or less sleepless or numbed out on benzos. Together with Alma Silva, Freja Ro is the cofacilitator of the coming trans writing circle “The Violet Hour”.
Luka Holmegaard is an author based in Copenhagen. His current interest include the medical industrial complex, the electrical systems of the body, slapstick stunt-comedy, & finally (after 5 books) figuring out how to write an actual plot. He has published two novels as well as essays and poetry. His work is translated into English, German and Swedish, and he has won several literary awards including the Prisma Award for the poetry collection Dog, quiet. He currently teaches at The Danish Academy of Creative Writing / Forfatterskolen.