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Queering Literature: A Pride Panel

June 5, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

Kick off Pride month with a discussion panel about writing queer lives in both fiction and nonfiction with Chris Castellani, Garrard Conley, Kelly Ford, Catherine Guthrie, Brontez Purnell, and Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich.

Chris Castellani, Grub’s Artistic Director, is the author of three novels: A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love. In addition, he has contributed essays on creative writing to numerous anthologies, including Naming The World, Now Write!, and others.

Garrard Conley, Grub’s Memoir Incubator Instructor, is the author of the memoir Boy Erased. His work has been published or is forthcoming in TIME, CNN, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, The Common, Lit Hub, The Madison Review, and others. 

Grub Instructor Kelly Ford’s debut novel, Cottonmouths, will be published on June 6, 2017. She is a contributor/editor for Dead Darlings, a writing-focused website. Her short fiction has appeared in Black Heart Magazine, Friend Chicken and Coffee, and Knee-Jerk Magazine.

Catherine Guthrie, a Grub Memoir Incubator graduate, is a women’s health writer. Her work has appeared in All You, Family Circle, O, The Oprah Magazine, OUT, Sunset, Time Magazine, Yoga Journal, and many more. Her queer, feminist, breast cancer memoir, Flat, is forthcoming from Skyhorse.

Brontez Purnell is the author of Since I Laid My Burden Down and the cult zine Fag School. He is also the frontman for his band The Younger Lovers, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company.

Grub Instructor Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, named an Indie Next Pick and one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Buzzfeed, BookRiot, and the Huffington Post. Her essays and short fiction appear in many publications, including The New York Times, Iowa Review, and many others.

 

Details

Date:
June 5, 2017
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
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Organizer

GrubStreet
Phone:
617-695-0075
Website:
www.grubstreet.org

Venue

Trident Cafe and Booksellers
338 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02115 United States
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Website:
tridentbookscafe.com

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.