My last roundup was in February and every time I came back here to update things I just …. didn’t. But hey, 2020 keeps happening so I guess we do too.
OutWrite 2020 went off without a hitch, despite the move to remote, thanks to the incredible writers that participated and our fantastic volunteer team. You can check out all of the events on Youtube. This year is my last as chair, so I’m even more pleased that we’ve been nominated for the Mayor’s Art Award for a contribution to the humanities. You can vote for us here if you’d like to.
While I’d hoped this year to be more involved in conventions and readings, I didn’t expect they’d all be online! I read and paneled at Flights of Foundry, NASFiC and the lowercase. Still to come is FIYAHCON and hopefully more! Not to mention the online reading series I’ve been hosting with Marianne Kirby called Neon Hemlock Live.
And in Neon Hemlock news, we’d love for you to join us on Saturday the 5th for the launch party celebrating Stone and Steel and Yellow Jessamine. RSVP here. And I am so pleased to say that Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn’t Die received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. So September is off to a great start.
I’ve had a really good year, publication-wise. Here are my five quick pitches for the stories that have come out since I last updated y’all:
AIs navigating obligation and tradition in space
Interactive erotic paranormal romance in DC
A literary triptych about a knife/woman/ship and personhood
An audio adventure of gargoyles, gender and revolution
An anthology of revolution that has my story about mental illness and post-apocalyptic antifa