Hey Ho, Tenebrous Cult!
Hope you're as excited about this as we are: we're ready to announce submission details, and reveal the cover, of the next YOUR BODY volume.
Mx Morgan G Robles crafted the exquisite cover that graced YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY in 2022.
Fittingly, they're back to give its companion volume some visual connective tissue. Unsurprisingly, they've outdone themselves.
Tenebrous Cult: feast your eyes on the cover art for YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Body Horror Anthology from trans and gender nonconforming voices:
The original volume came about in a spontaneous, emotional frenzy, when the Texas government announced they would begin prosecuting not only trans individuals, but their family members too: we conceived the anthology in an afternoon—title first, of all things!—publicly announced it that evening, with submissions opening the following morning.
YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY released five months later, without too many bumps in the road; a miracle in itself. To date it's raised over $12,000 for Equality Texas, the Trevor Project and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.
Well, the world is still a bit of a mess, yeah? Let's make some more Weird shit happen.
YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM
A cosmic body horror anthology from trans and GNC voices, a companion volume to YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY, and a charity drive all rolled into one.
Currently aiming to contribute to:
Always open to further suggestions!
If you wish to support this project, but are not part of the target demographic for writers and artists, here are some other great ways you can help:
- Contribute to the art fund HERE. Any donation, no matter how small, will be put fully towards purchasing a piece of interior art. Anything over what we can use for interior art will go directly to the anthology fund itself.
- Sign up to help us read and process submissions HERE.
- Sign up to be a Tenebrous ARC reader (advance review copies) and be a reviewer, promoter, and hype person for this release HERE
- Sign up to our NEWSLETTER and engage with it, and share it with your friends
Alright, so what do we want?
Only accepting submissions from creators who are: Trans, NB, agender, intersex, GNC, and generally any gender identity other than binary cisgender.
Discretionary note: while we respect your privacy (we will not ask details on your identity nor require your legal address or name), being involved with this anthology will definitely come with an assumption on readers' part that the identity of the name you're using is within this demographic. Please do not submit (or if you do, use an alternative pen name) if that's not comfortable or not safe for you. The anthology will be distributed broadly and given every opportunity to be in the public eye and it's important to be prepared.
FICTION GUIDELINES:
4,000 words maximum (no minimum)
Reprints are welcomed
Simsub: always. Multiple subs: yes but no more than two submissions per creator, please.
Genre: Weird Cosmic Body Horror/SFF
The hell does that mean?
It means if it's dark, and involves themes like great unknowable forces, big concepts, space, dimensions, existential drama, good ol' body horror, cosmic dread, genre blending, weird format fuckery (hell yes, send us your experimental one page RPG lyrical cosmic horromance with a soundtrack), then it's probably for us. If it isn't, that's our job to figure out, not yours to worry about!
Target audience is adult.
Narrative poetry welcome.
Pay: 3c/w original, $25/piece reprints
Deadline: 10th of January 2026
Love a content warning under the title if possible, won't hold it against you if it's missing.
Submit HERE.
ART GUIDELINES:
One page interior illustrations or comics, spot illustrations, mini comic strips, and potentially multimedia weirdness.
We can only print B&W/grayscale interiors.
Final print dimensions: 8.5" H x 5.5" W
No bleed please! This limits some of the venues who will print and distribute the book; art submitted with bleed will be reformatted with framing on the page.
While we won't discourage you from creating pieces for this if you want to, we are aware that our means don't cover what your art is worth, and prefer if you submit pieces you already have & would like to reprint with us.
Pay: $25/piece
Submit HERE.
Okay, submissions are open, Weirdos. Let's do some Good Work.
Hail Indie Publishing.
Hail New Weird Horror (+ More!)
Hail the Tenebrous Cult.
Hail the Fever Dream.
Matt + Alex