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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 Lambda Literary Award. Now Cassandra Reilly has returned in a new mystery— Not the Real Jupiter—set ...
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 the reader into your book and your life. And, then, like that, we are catapulted to a kaleidoscopic, p...
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 virtual reading and awards ceremony, hosted by New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman. Join us at 7...