Words matter: creating culture, saving lives
The Lambda Literary Awards were presented last night. It sounds like a wonderful evening. There’s a write-up, including a full list of…
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Donate a book for quiltbag YA readers
What a cool idea: Lambda Literary Foundation‘s My Story Book Club for quiltbag YA readers now has a donation programme. My Story aims to…
Read moreSupport an emerging quiltbag writer
In August the Lambda Literary Foundation will hold it’s fifth Emerging Voices writers’ workshop/retreat for quiltbag writers. (LLF uses the term LGBT but…
Read moreLambda Literary Award nomination deadline
The deadline to nominate a book for the Lambda Literary Award is today. But Richard Labonte, administrator of the award, has these…
Read moreLLF: New website and new challenge for you
The Lambda Literary Foundation has a new website design and a new challenge. LLF is the biggest and best queer lit organisation…
Read moreHappy Birthday to us!
Hild is eating my life. (And I’m okay with that. Writers like to write.) But it means I have no brain to…
Read moreIt’s time for the Lambda Literary Foundation to stand up
The Lambda Literary Foundation released its new award eligibility criteria today: LGBT authors will be recognized with three awards marking stages of…
Read moreChanging gears with LLF
After two years as a Trustee of the Lambda Literary Foundation, it’s time for me to change gears. It seems like a…
Read moreAm I writing? Am I burning?
I was struck yesterday by Saeed Jones’s post on LambdaLiterary.org, “The Ferocity: Fierce Manifest.” Fierce is Helene Cixous demanding in The School…
Read moreWe need their voices
Busy day today, so I thought I’d link to four things you might find interesting: Here’s a trailer for a film on…
Read moreSunday at Elliott Bay Book Company
This Sunday, May 8th, I’m hosting a reading of Lambda Literary Award finalists at Elliott Bay Book Company. The finalists are: Carol…
Read moreSave the date
If you live anywhere near Seattle, save this date: May 8th, 5 pm. I’ll be MC’ing a reading of Lambda Literary Award…
Read moreNiftyness
So I was footling about on the LLF website (I like to go admire Kelley’s interview every so often–my sweetie!) and came…
Read moreLambda Literary Writers’ Retreat 2011
Last year I taught the fiction workshop at LLF’s Emerging Voices writers’ retreat. It was a pretty astonishing week. If you’re interested…
Read moreTell LLF how to support queer lit
The Lambda Literary Foundation needs your input. Why should you care? Well because. Because you’ll become magically better looking, more talented, and…
Read moreMy 2010: good, bad, and learning opportunities
Last night I started to mull my 2010, and what I kept thinking was, “Blimey, was that this year??” So much of…
Read moreWe did it! Thank you!
The Lambda Literary Foundation has reached its goal–two weeks early–to raise $10,000 for the Chuck Forester Challenge Grant. More than half the…
Read moreCan queer authors write straight characters?
photo: Lambda Literary A few weeks ago I did one of those ten-questions-by-email roundup interviews (with Gena Hymowech) for Lambda Literary on…
Read moreMore than halfway there
The Lambda Literary Foundation is more than halfway to its goal of raising $10,000 for the Chuck Forester Challenge Grant: $6,500 so…
Read moreWriters: if you can’t give money, give a story
Yesterday, I talked about the challenge grant to the Lambda Literary Foundation by Emerging Voices fiction fellow Chuck Forester. If you have…
Read moreHelp save queer lives. Give, and it will be doubled.
If you give $25 or more to the Lambda Literary Foundation right now, your gift will be matched, dollar for dollar, by…
Read moreVideo of me reading in Los Angeles
Here’s video of me reading from Slow River last month at the LLF Emerging Voices Writers’ Retreat in Los Angeles, where I…
Read moreFire in their bellies and mouths filled with light
Writing a blog post is a lot like writing anything else–it’s all about choosing what to leave out and how to arrange…
Read moreTired but happy
I got back from Los Angeles on Sunday. It went well. Very well. I miss everyone already, all those brilliant, beautiful new…
Read morePerbs in the mist…
…except, eh, the mist evaporated by the time I got out there with the camera. But here’s the photo anyway–the dill is…
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