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Amazon Literary Partnership Opens for 2021 Submissions This year supporting everything from PEN America to the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the Amazon Literary Partnership has opened its new US submissions process for 2021. Image – iStockphoto: Simon Apilolla Deadline for Submissions: January 29 In May, as you’ll recall, we announced that the Amazon Literary Partnership program of grants had announced more than US$1 million in funding to a total 66 nonprofit organizations. That program has now opened its application submissions process for its 2021 grants. “As in previous years,�...

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...

Berkeley City College President Angélica Garcia has been recognized on a list of 25 educators published by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. The issue was released to coincide with Women's History Month and is the magazine's 10th anniversary of highlighting women who have made a difference in academics by tackling some of education's toughest challenges, according to a news release from the school. Garcia, who identifies as pansexual, began her tenure as president of the community college in May 2020. The school is part of the Peralta Community College District and is known for civic enga...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BENNINGTON — Poetry at Bennington, an endowed program of short-term residencies that brings established and emerging poets to Bennington College for public readings and close work with students, has announced its spring 2021 lineup of featured poets. This spring, in line with public health practices, all Poetry at Bennington readings will be presented remotely over Zoom. All events begin at 7 p.m. and are free, open to the public, and can be accessed and shared from the Poetry at Bennington webpage, www.bennington.edu/poetry-benningto...

ONLINE: Karen Tidbeck The Memory Theater, and CL Polk! Endlessly inventive, The Memory Theater takes us to a wondrous place where destiny has yet to be written, life is a performance, and magic can erupt at any moment. It is Karin Tidbeck’s most engrossing and irresistible tale yet. In a world just parallel to ours exists a mystical realm known only as the Gardens. It’s a place where feasts never end, games of croquet have devastating consequences, and teenagers are punished for growing up. For a select group of masters, it’s a decadent paradise where time stands still. But...