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Brink Literary Project's new tarot guidebook connects the major and minor arcana with classic literature that represents its attributes. To celebrate its Kickstarter, io9 has a look at some of the contributors, including Captain Marvel's Kelly Sue DeConnick.
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Mya Spalter is offering a publishing workshop through Literary Arts at Featherstone. Courtesy Kate Feiffer
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article with this rather mean-spirited headline: “An Epic of Memoir Writing: The lockdowns have spread a virus of nonmemorable life stories.” Ouch. Whatever happened to everyone has a story worth telling?
For those of us, and there are many of us, who flexed our literary muscles during lockdown and are now emerging a year later with a draft of a quarantine novel or socially separated memoir, it may be time to start thinking about publication because yes, everyone does have a story worth telling.
Michelle Lin April 20, 2021
Bestiary, published by One World / Random House, is K-Ming Chang’s debut novel. Chang’s writing style is a siren song it pulls readers into her stories of loss, survival, and multi-faceted love. A Kundiman fellow and Lambda Literary Award finalist, Chang’s work blends and breaks down genre. I first discovered Chang’s work as a poet, and reading
Bestiary feels simultaneously like coming home and a breath of fresh air. Here, we discuss intergenerational relationships, the idea of a homeland, and her writing inspirations.
Michelle Lin: Firstly, the concept of
Bestiary is magical realism and myths. Not all of it is “true”, at least literally. How do you see the role of truth and emotional truth in a novel with fantasy elements?
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: Protection, Tina Horn, Michael Dowling, Alejandra Gutiérrez & Jen Hickman (Image)
The awards will be presented during the virtual 33rd Annual Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony to be held June 1, 2021.