Foreplay is a chapbook created as a companion to the award-winning anthology Awfully Hilarious: Pillow Talk, functioning as both a prequel and a sequel to it. It’s a short collection of poems, reflections, stories, and essays that lead into deeper conversations about sex, desire, intimacy, trauma, pleasure, vulnerability, healing, and the body.
The writing is short-form — poetic reflections and narrative fragments — covering desire and longing, sexuality and self-trust, pleasure and embodiment, trauma and tenderness, intimacy and consent, and humour and healing. It works as an introduction to the Awfully Hilarious series for new readers and as a companion read for existing fans.
Foreplay will suit readers interested in feminist storytelling, sex-positive and body-positive writing, trauma-informed and queer-affirming literature, intimacy and relationships, mental health and healing, and honest, memoir-style personal essays. It also works as a gift or a conversation starter.
