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George Mason University's College of Visual and Performing Arts announced artist educator and co-founder of Pomo Afro Homos Djola Branner will be the next Director of the School of Theater. Branner starts July 1, transitioning from his most recent role as Professor of Theater at Hampshire College.

New Work from the Author of One of the First Lesbian Mysteries Ever Published By Michele Karlsberg– Barbara Wilson’s Murder in the Collective was one of the first lesbian mysteries ever published. Her later Cassandra Reilly series, featuring a footloose Irish-American translator who solves mysteries while exploring London, Barcelona, and Venice, won her a British Crime Writers’ award. Gaudi Afternoon was made into a film with Judy Davis and Marcia Gay Hardin, and won a Lamb...

Six regional writers will be featured at the Voices for Resistance May 19 event. Sponsored by the Straw Dog Writers Guild and Forbes Library, the reading will begin at 7

Dear Kama, Your book arrived in the mail today. I want to say at the outset that I think what you did with ZOM-FAM is spectacular. Just fucking spectacular. It is brilliant, nourishing, expansive, decolonial, profound, tender, and gorgeous. It made me cry tears of joy. Honest-to-goodness tears of fucking joy. Wow. That hasn’t happened in a looooong time. I adore how your opening poem invokes and honours “the women & femmes / who reshape the universe.” It was a majestic way of inviting th...

Email Address This spring, n+1 announced the establishment of the Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize, a new $5,000 award named in memory of our contributor and beloved short story writer Anthony Veasna So. Today, we’re pleased to announce the inaugural prize winner, Trevor Shikaze, as well as the recipient of this year’s n+1 Writers’ Fellowship, Christina Nichol.   On Wednesday, May 26, we’ll be celebrating Trevor and Christina’s outstanding work—and commemorating Anthony—with a v...

After a brutal winter, made even more difficult by the pandemic and killer storms, the Spring Equinox has arrived and warmer weather days are in sight. The following new non-fiction books are a good way to welcome the new season.

After a brutal winter, made even more difficult by the pandemic and killer storms, the Spring Equinox has arrived and warmer weather days are in sight. The following new non-fiction books are a good way to welcome the new season. Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Knopf, 2021) by celebrated writer Joan Didion opens with a lengthy intro by gay writer Hilton Als, before delighting readers with previously uncollected essays written between 20 and 50 years ago on topics as timely as ever, including coll...

ONLINE: A Celebration of Queer Voices May 10, 2021 6:30 PM press release: A Room of Ones Own, Noemi Press, and Lambda Literary present a virtual reading to celebrate queer voices, featuring authors Melissa Febos, Khalisa Rae, Melissa Faliveno, Emilia Phillips, Raquel Gutiérrez, Sofia Fey, and Ashley Elizabeth Evans. This Crowdcast event will be emceed by Suzi F. Garcia. Khalisa Rae is a poet and journalist in Durham, North Carolina, that speaks with furious rebellion. She is the author of G...

April 23, 2021 To commemorate World Book Day (23 Apr), we flip the page on Singlit and look at the "contents" of an exciting new chapter. (Left to right from top left) Instagram/ballijaswal and suffianhakim, Facebook/jinnykoh, Epigram Books, Instagram/runhideseek, Epigram Books, Facebook/jingjingleeauthor and nuraliah.norasid, and Instagram/marylyn.orificial Singapore’s writers have been telling stories for decades, with veteran authors and poets like Catherine Lim, Edwin Thumboo, Christine ...

Saw Palm, and Tampa Bay Noir. Gale was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a fellow at Writers in Paradise and has served as a panel judge for the Lambda Literary Awards. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in both fiction and nonfiction. You can visit Gale online galemassey.com.