Sibling Rivalry Press: 16 books

We aren't always aware of the impact our actions have on others. When we brushed against an arm on the subway, did we send electricity up his spine? When we broke it off after three months, did we scar her for life? When we opened the door for the elderly man, did we remind him that he wasn't...

Short fiction by emerging and established gay, bisexual, and transgendered authors. Featured in Issue 01 of Jonathan are Daniel Nathan Terry, Paul Lisicky, Matthew R. Loney, Eric Norris, James Powers-Black, Chip Livingston, Philip Dean Walker, Ian Young, Reginald T. Jackson, and Wendell Ricketts. Proudly published by Sibling Rivalry Press.

In her debut collection of poems, Theresa Senato Edwards gives voice to womanhood, from daughter and mother to warrior and lover. Through whispers and screams, her words shatter the glass of the page; and when the conversation is over, a song of strength reverberates."There’s a new TSE joining...

We do not choose our family. We love them or want to love them. We embrace them or run from them. We leave them or become them. Through it all, we are linked by the commonality of a shared blood, and in Dirty Socks and Pine Needles, a sweet and funny eBook single from Sibling Rivalry Press, Tyler...

Harry Fein, a cab driver in Boise, Idaho, is obsessed with the art of dying. Jacob Pratt, a quiet man with an abusive past, is obsessed with the art of killing. When their lives intersect, so do their obsessions, and as the real becomes surreal, there's a distinct possibility Harry won't...

Razia Mirza is a Pakistani woman from Corona, Queens, who grew up in a tight Muslim community surrounding the first Sunni masjid built in New York City. When a rebellious streak leads to her ex-communication, she decides to hit the road. Corona moves between Razia’s childhood and the comedic misadventures...

In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, and on dangerous backroads where most people keep their heads down or look the other way. Through Texas and Tennessee, Alabama and the riverbeds of the Mississippi,...

Poetry. LGBT Studies. The autobiographical poems of Steven Reigns's INHERITANCE introduce us to the gains and losses of a true American family and detail the bequests of the shadows that linger. Reigns glosses over nothing to reveal the secrets that turn suburbia into a coming-of-age battlefield....

Short fiction by Molly Patterson. A lonely man in an airport bar meets two strangers who turn out to be more than he bargained for.

Poetry. In Fat Girl, Jessie Carty asks us to strip and stand naked in front of a mirror. These poems are our own reflection. Bittersweet in nature, they are self-perception. They size us up and tell the truth: that man or woman, we all struggle to feel at home in our own skins.The poems of...

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Speaking directly to the pop icon's ghost, Megan Volpert dives into a completely charted yet utterly unknown ocean that is Andy Warhol. The resulting collection of love letters and hate mail audaciously perforates the scene of the usual cultural suspects with icy shrapnel in...

Short fiction by Emily Bufford: When a man’s pursuit of motor-less, harness-free flying consumes him, he’ll do anything to achieve it–even if it means entering the world of extreme body modification.

Poems touching on religion, sexuality, Southern life, and self-acceptance reveal the poet's growing up, coming out, and becoming an adult in all its joys and sorrows. My Life as Adam is Bryan Borland's full-length debut and was included as one of only five collections of poetry on the American...

The story of a young hustler who navigates streets, sex, and family, only to discover the light of the dark can be cruel… “Donnelle McGee’s powerful, poetic prose gives Shine a unique voice that is fresh, bold and completely seductive. Like Rechy’s City of Night, Shine brings us a hustler...