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Working Girls Press Announces Anthology, "Liquid Silver," Edited by Mia Walsch
New York, NY (October 20, 2026) Working Girls Press is excited to announce "Liquid Silver," an anthology of speculative fiction written by sex workers. Edited by Mia Walsch, "Liquid Silver" promises to be an anthology unlike any other and will feature an array of new voices in the sex worker literary world. So many sex workers are nerds scattered throughout brothels, strip joints and hostess clubs, reading doorstopper fantasy books between bookings or scribbling sentences about space in the notebooks they stash in their lockers. Sex workers across the globe also think critically and imaginatively about what the world could look like in the future, on different planets, in alternate realities, and we want to create a space for them to bring these thoughts to life.
This anthology features the work by 20 contributors who build worlds and explore possibilities at the limits of our imaginations, including interspecies encounters, speculative technology, and interplanetary travel. It is currently available for pre-order through Kickstarter, and the campaign was selected as one of Kickstarter’s “Projects We Love.”
For more information about "Liquid Silver" or to request a review copy, please contact Working Girls Press at workinggirlspress@proton.me.
About Mia Walsch: Pseudonymous but not anonymous. Mia Walsch is an author, visual artist, former sex worker, and middle-aged goth from Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). She is the author of the memoir "Money For Something," as well as non-fiction pieces at Archer and the Tryst Blog. In the 'real' world, she has published a number of award-winning speculative books and short stories. Her work in this genre explores the near and far future, apocolyptic worlds, dystopic cities, and has been described as "raw and necessary" and "Harrowing. Thrilling. Beautifully life-affirming."
About Working Girls Press: Founded in 2023 by Molly B. Simmons and Emily Marie Passos Duffy, Working Girls Press aims to promote, uplift, and distribute art and writing by sex workers through collaborative and collectivist publishing practices. Titles include I Hate My Job (2026) edited by adrie rose, The Holy Hour: An Anthology on Sex Work, Magic, and the Divine (2024), which was featured in Hustler Magazine and Multiversos Podcastand reviewed in Tryst, and the free downloadable resource, Partners In Crime: A Guidebook to Loving Relationships for Sex Workers and their Partners. The press is also home to Off Duty Editions, a series of single author poetry books by sex workers. Our first title of this series, Dancing to the Stormwater and other cautionary tales from my cunt by Paz Deol is available for preorder and has been featured in the Cordite Poetry Review.
WGP practices financial transparency and equity–budgets and expenses are shared both with our authors and our audience. Authors are paid upfront for their work and earn competitive royalties from all sales, in perpetuity. We believe in people over profit—our press was born from a DIY ethos and our community will always remain at the core of our mission and decision-making.
We are an AI-free business–we do not use any AI products in any facet of our business operations or publishing practices. We believe in paying creative people fair wages for their work, and we aim to create more paid opportunities for sex worker writers and artists. In the rising tide of sex worker publishing, we are proud to play a part in the creation of a living archive of sex worker storytelling, critical thought, and creative expression.
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Working Girls Press is excited to announce the release of "Liquid Silver," a groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction written by sex workers edited by Mia Walsch.
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