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Divinity in the Margins: Transgender & GNC Writers on the Divine Orison Books

What does it mean to be both trans* and religious? Do our communities of faith have room for us? How can we safely carve out these spaces for ourselves and others? Must we compromise half of what are frequently two of the most important, sacred aspects of ourselves? The anthology Divinity in the Margins: Transgender & Gender-Nonconforming Writers on the Divine seeks to answer these questions and more.

In the tradition of Trace Peterson and TC Tolbert’s 2013 Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel’s 2020 We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Divinity in the Margins will feature exclusively transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender-nonconforming writers’ work but with a groundbreaking twist: The anthology will center the intersection of transness and divinity.

Divinity in the Margins will comprise both poetry and essays, culminating in a variety of styles, forms, and queer theology. Trans* and GNC authors of all religious and spiritual backgrounds are encouraged to submit.

This anthology asserts that to be trans* and religious is not antithetical. The editor believes that there is a seat at the table reserved for the transgender Christian, the transgender Muslim, the transgender Jew, the transgender Hindu, the transgender Buddhist—a seat, in fact, for every person of every religious and spiritual group. It is the goal of Divinity in the Margins to celebrate the diversity of the divine, in keeping with Victor Hugo’s ever-relevant sentiment, “To love another person is to see the face of God.”

About the Editor

Remi Recchia is a Lambda Award-winning poet, essayist, and editor from Kalamazoo, Michigan. An eight-time Pushcart Prize nominee, he is the author of six books and chapbooks, most recently Addiction Apocalypse (Texas Review Press, forthcoming), and is the editor of Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature & the Silences Around Us (Sundress Publications, 2024). Remi has received support from Tin House, PEN America, and The Poetry Foundation. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University and a PhD in English from Oklahoma State University.

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Open
Closes on Sunday, June 1, 2025 11:59 PM EDT (in 115 days).

Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Previously published material will be considered if the author holds the reprint rights (please indicate place of original publication in your file).

POETRY
Submit up to 6 poems (20 pp. max). Include all poems in a single file.


ESSAYS
Submit 1 work of nonfiction (up to 6,000 words).


Hybrid-genre work is also welcome (up to 6,000 words).

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