“The first songs resounded in a small town, back then a virus hotspot.” These are the opening lines to a piece I wrote late last year—the first short story I’ve written in around a decade. This flash fiction (in this case, a fiction piece under 200 words) is among 20 pieces of commissioned creative writing that appears in a new...
Read MoreApr 1: Online reading for The Flywheel Reading Series, University of Mary Washington
Coming up next Thursday April 1, I’ll be giving an online reading and Q&A with creative writing students from University of Mary Washington (in Fredericksburg, Virginia) who have been studying stories from Look Who’s Morphing. At this event, I’ll read some work from both Look Who’s Morphing and my novel-in-progress, and...
Read MoreDec 17: Reading and panel talk for Queer Writers, Speaking Across Borders
Update: This event was recorded and is now available for viewing: # I have done a few online gigs during the pandemic, most of them being class visits (hello to any of those students who might be reading this: students at Kew High School and T Cooper’s fiction-writing students at Emory University 👋🏽). I miss in-person appearances and the immediacy of...
Read MoreNov 4: Reading for the Toronto launch of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)
Coming in November, I’ll be reading for the Toronto launch of Hazel Jane Plante’s Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian). Also reading will be Trish Salah and, of course, Hazel Jane Plante.
Read MoreAwarded an artist residency at 100 West Corsicana
Yesterday, I learned that I’ve been award an artist residency at 100 West Corsicana, which is based in Corsicana, Texas (about an hour’s drive from Dallas).
Read MoreSept 28: Panel for JLF Toronto
On Friday Sept 28 at 5:30pm, I’ll be on a panel with Farzana Doctor, Gwen Benaway, and Shree Paradkar (who will be moderating) for the inaugural year of JLF Toronto, a Toronto edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival. The event takes place in the Young Centre (50 Tank House Lane—it’s in the Distillery Historic District), in the Tank House...
Read MoreCrosstown Arts residency update and Jul 23: PechaKucha talk
Since June 3, I’ve been on an artist residency at Crosstown Arts in Memphis (a fantastic residency program; applications for 2020 close today!). While here, I’ve been doing a major revision (including a restructure) of the penultimate chapter of my novel-in-progress. The revision has been going well, in many ways better than I had anticipated....
Read MoreMay 6: Reading for the Toronto launch of This One Looks Like A Boy
I haven’t been doing many readings lately but I have one coming up on Monday May 6. Vancouver writer Lorimer Shenher’s memoir This One Looks Like A Boy: My Gender Journey to Life As A Man is being launched as part of Proust & Company, the reading series run by Glad Day Bookshop. Confirmed performers at the event are poet and author Gwen...
Read MoreAwarded an Ontario Arts Council grant
Yesterday, I learned that I’ve been awarded a Literary Creation Projects (Works for Publication) grant from the Ontario Arts Council. The grant, my first from a Canadian arts funding body, is for the further development of my novel-in-progress. I have really needed this—not even “just” the grant itself, but the morale boost here in...
Read MoreOn an artist residency at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation; awarded an artist residency at Crosstown Arts
I’m about three and a half weeks into a twelve-week artist residency at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. I was here in 2014 and I feel very grateful to have received this opportunity for a second time in my lifetime. While here, I hope to finish the penultimate chapter of my novel-in-progress (which is a five-chapter work). The process...
Read MoreMay 29: Reading for Squirt: A Queer Lit Erotica Cabaret (and Other Secreted Genres)
It has been such a long time since I’ve read any erotic work but soon, I’ll be reading a special excerpt 💦 from my novel in progress that I’ve never had the chance to read before. Here are the details of this next reading, as drawn from the associated Facebook event: Squirt: A Queer Lit Erotica Cabaret (and Other Secreted Genres) Tuesday...
Read MoreMay 8: Talk on Tom of Finland at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Last week, I gave a talk on Tom of Finland at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), in conjunction with the exhibition Tom House: The Work and Life of Tom of Finland. I spoke on a day of significance for appreciators of Tom of Finland: May 8th, the date of Tom’s birthday (now known as Tom of Finland Day). Tom would have been 98 years old. My...
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