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LGBTQ SF/F/Horror Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian K. Jarboe (Lethe) Subcutanean, Aaron A. Reed (self-published) Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse (Saga) The Silence of the Wilting Skin, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Pink Narcissus) Gay Fiction Lesbian Fiction Transgender Fiction The Seep, Chana Porter (Soho) Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers, Lydia Rogue (Microcosm) Gay Romance LGBTQ Anthology LGBTQ Children’s/Middle Grade  The Deep & Dark Blue, Niki Smith (Little, Brown) LGBTQ Comics SFSX (Safe Sex), Vol. 1: Prote...

Print Anyone can write a poem. To be a poet, though — to have your work read in an age not exactly teeming with famous verse stylists, Amanda Gorman aside — you have to submit. Every year, poets around the country submit their work for dozens of prizes and contests, hoping for a shot at prestige, visibility, maybe eventually an academic job offer. It’s a difficult path, and until recently it was an impossible one for poets like Javier Zamora. Zamora earned his MFA in poetry in 2014 at New York University under the best writers in the country. He’d been published in literary journals l...

Disabled LGBTQ+ Creatives Imagine a Better Tomorrow The Ford and Mellon Foundations invest in queer disabled cultural creatives. January 29 2021 7:08 PM EST In the fall of 2020 the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced an 18-month initiative to increase the visibility of disabled creatives and elevate their voices. Developed after the foundations spent a year researching how to better serve disabled artists, writers, filmmakers, and other creatives, the initiative will invest $1 million in supporting 20 disabled creators whose work “advances the cultural landscape,â...