Truth & Dare

So Mayer is a writer, indie bookseller, film curator, and pencil stan. Their most recent books are A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula, 2020), a short essay on queer art, censorship and resistance, and (Litmus, 2018), a poetry sequence about interwar masculinity, technology and hats, and their BFI Film Classics on Orlando is forthcoming. Their work across genres and forms has been published internationally, including in Roxane Gay's anthology Not that Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, in several Criterion DVDs, and in Ignota Press's Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry. Plus their poetry once appeared on hoardings in Dublin. With Adam Zmith, they collaborated on Unreal Sex for Cipher, an anthology of queer SFFH, and on the BBC Sounds podcast The Film We Can't See, a tour through queer film history.

“A brilliant, propulsive collection. These daring tales solid Mayer as an exciting talent.” Irenosen Okojie, author of Nudibranch “Clever, beautiful, brilliant little queer worlds - a collection which deftly plaits thoughtfulness, bravery, unflinching grief and defiant hope.” Nat Reeve, author of Nettleblack “A roaring girl, a punk tribute to queer ancestors, an experiment with words, a dare and a promise… People might rightly ask, what is queer writing. Mayer is here to show us. This. Is. It. I can’t wait to share this book.” Adam Smith, author of Deep Sniff “What so Mayer achieve here is a triumph. These stories are at once captivating, innovative, deeply thoughtful, and fabulous. With Truth & Dare, Mayer has crystallised themself as an essential voice in contemporary fiction. This collection is astonishing - I was euphoric reading it.” Peter Scalpello, author of Limbic