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So Mayer

So Mayer is a writer, editor, bookseller, organiser and film curator. Their most recent book, Bad Language (Peninsula Press, 2025), is a memoir and manifesto on language and power. Their speculative collection Truth and Dare (Cipher Press, 2023) was longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize and Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Their book-length essay A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing (Peninsula Press, 2022) inspired the BBC Sounds podcast The Film We Can’t See.

They are the co-editor of The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K Le Guin and the Locus Award-winning collection Space Crone by Ursula K Le Guin with Sarah Shin for Silver Press, and Unreal Sex with Adam Zmith for Cipher Press.

So Mayer works with Burley Fisher Books, queer feminist film curation collective Club Des Femmes and Outburst Arts in Belfast, as editor of Catflap magazine.