In the wake of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency, the literary community is responding with the founding of new journals, grants, and book giveaways.

Maggie Nelson and Janice Lee will edit a new online literary magazine, SUBLEVEL, whose inaugural issue’s theme is “contagion”; the editors are also accepting submissions for an open submission feature on “the history of touching.” SUBLEVEL is based at CalArts’ MFA Writing Program, but is not a student-run journal, and will be produced in collaboration with Entropy and East of Borneo.

Meanwhile, Alternating Currents Arts, a “boutique independent press” based in Colorado is offering grants for marginalized and underrepresented writers, and Rebecca Solnit is offering free copies of the ebook version of her 2004 book, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. Huffington Post describes the book, which was originally written during George W. Bush’s first term, as “a history of under-acknowledged progressive victories and a manifesto for hope as fuel for activist change.”

Also, Literary Hub is offering a “reading list for resistance” (two, to be exact, including this one, and this one) that contains fifty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that cover Native American rights activism, voting rights, dystopias, dictatorships, postcolonialism, surveillance, mass incarceration, poverty, race in American history, queerness, civil rights, capitalism, immigration, the impact of mass media on politics, practical advice on community organizing, and much, much more.

Related reading: Teju Cole’s piece in the The New York Times alludes to a play, “Rhinoceros,” by Eugène Ionesco, to illuminate the necessity of resisting the “new normal” that a Donald Trump presidency represents.

Image Credit: Albrecht Dürer, “The Rhinoceros,” Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art.