DOPAMINE IS QUEER LITERARY ORGANIZATION THAT AIMS TO ELEVATE LGBTQI+ WRITING AND WRITERS THROUGH PUBLISHING, READING SERIES, LITERARY TOURS AND WORKSHOPS. WE LOOK TO PROMOTE AND NURTURE QUEER WORK THAT FALLS OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM OF EVEN LGBTQI+ STORYTELLING: WORK THAT IS EXPERIMENTAL, BY WRITERS RESISTING ASSIMILATION; WORK THAT STRETCHES THE BOUNDARIES OF WHAT DEFINES ‘QUEER,’ BY WRITERS WITH INTERSECTING IDENTITIES; WORK THAT IS RAW, BY WRITERS WHO ARE SELF-TAUGHT. DOPAMINE HONORS THE OUTLAW HERITAGE OF QUEER ARTISTS AND LOOKS TO WRITERS WHO ARE NOT COMPLACENT, COMPLICIT OR GENTRIFIED, AND WHOSE WORK CHALLENGES THE STATUS QUO THROUGH VOICE, CONTENT, OR EXISTENCE. INSPIRED BY DARING PUBLISHERS SUCH AS HIGH RISK, HANUMAN, BLACK SPARROW, GALLIMARD, OR BOOKS, THE FEMINIST PRESS, SEMIOTEXT(E), AKASHIC BOOKS AND OTHERS, DOPAMINE IS DEDICATED TO STYLISTIC STORIES OF UNVARNISHED QUEER EXISTENCE.

DOPAMINE WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH INFLUENTIAL INDIE PUBLISHER SEMIOTEXT(E), IN WHOSE FOOTSTEPS WE FOLLOW. THIS LITERARY FRIENDSHIP ALLOWS DOPAMINE TO FOCUS ON OUR CREATIVE RAISON D’ETRE WHILE BEING GUIDED THROUGH THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF PUBLISHING. THE TWO PRESSES WILL BE MUTUALLY SUPPORTIVE OF OUR INDIVIDUAL OUTPUT.

IN ADDITION TO PUBLISHING, DOPAMINE AIMS TO PRODUCE READINGS AND OTHER LITERARY EVENTS. DOPAMINE HOPES TO PRODUCE REMOTE WORKSHOPS for WRITERS LOOKING FOR INSPIRATION, CRAFT SKILLS, AND TO NAVIGATE THE PARTICULAR ANXIETIES OF BEING A QUEER WRITER IN OUR CURRENT ERA. THE FEMINIST LITERARY PERFORMANCE TOUR, SISTER SPIT, WILL ASSIST IN ARRANGING BOOK TOURS FOR DOPAMINE AUTHORS ON THE ROAD.

Our SLUTS anthology will be released may 7, 2024.