Naked Heart is the world’s largest LGBTQ literary festival and Ontario’s most racially diverse literary festival. I feel honoured to be giving a reading at the festival for the second year in a row. I will be sharing an excerpt from my novel-in-progress. Aside from this reading, I plan to spend my weekend checking out the rest of the festival....
Read MoreKaya Wilson to run the Transgender Writers and Writers with Intersex Variations in Australia project
In what is some great news, the Transgender Writers and Writers with Intersex Variations in Australia project is now being run by writer Kaya Wilson. As I’ve mentioned previously, I developed this list to increase, in Australia’s public conversations, the presence of writers who are transgender or who have intersex variations. In September...
Read MoreJun 13: Giving a reading for Proud Voices: Bricolage
The program for Proud Voices, Glad Day Bookshop’s literary season for Pride Toronto, has now been released. There are many great events in the program, including a reading I’ll be appearing at (with a line-up that I’m especially excited about!). Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto’s LGBTQ bookshop (and the world’s oldest LGBTQ...
Read MoreMar 10: Appearing in online panel for Lambda LitFest and Noted Festival
I consider LGBTQ folks to be among my core readers, so I really appreciate opportunities to participate in LGBTQ literary events. Because I’m in Toronto these days, it was too expensive for me to attend the inaugural Lambda LitFest (which is in LA) in person, but fortunately I’ll be appearing on an online panel as part of...
Read MoreAWP Conference (Feb 8-11): A panel talk and a reading
Edited on Feb 4 and Feb 6 to add: In the wake of the US Government’s new travel bans (now currently on hold), I am angry and saddened about those who won’t be able to go to the 2017 AWP Conference and Bookfair in Washington, DC, as well as those attendees whose travel to the conference has been compromised. After giving some thought to a...
Read MoreSigning with a literary agent; receiving a Pushcart Prize nomination
Here’s an exciting announcement: I have now signed with the literary agency MacKenzie Wolf, which is based in New York. My agent, Rachel Crawford, came to encounter my work by reading it in a recent issue of Review of Australian Fiction. My thanks to this journal—especially Matthew Lamb, the editor—for publishing my work and so helping to bring about...
Read MoreDec 10: A slightly unusual reading in Melbourne
This Saturday, as part of my visit to Melbourne, I will be giving a reading from my novel-in-progress. It’s a slightly unusual reading due to its venue: Writers in Residence: Tom Cho, Kate Goldsworthy, Lily Chan Saturday 10 December, 3pm Author Lily Chan is opening up her house in Footscray to present a free literary reading in her backyard! The...
Read MoreDec 1: Appearing at the Sydney launch of BooksActually’s Gold Standard 2016
Coming up very soon, I’ll be visiting Australia! I’m flying into Sydney, where I’ll be reading and speaking at the Sydney launch of a really exciting new anthology out of Singapore. This is my first publication in Singapore! For so many reasons, I’m super-pleased to have an excerpt from my novel-in-progress in this anthology and now...
Read MoreNov 12-13: Appearing at Naked Heart festival
I’m honoured to be appearing at Naked Heart Festival, which is coming up very soon. Staged right here in Toronto, Naked Heart is the world’s largest LGBTQ literary festival. It’s produced by Glad Day Lit, which runs Glad Day Bookshop, the world’s oldest LGBTQ bookstore. (This bookstore has been a wonderful supporter of my work right...
Read MoreSept 27: Panel talk for Roots En Route in Hamilton; books on sale at Word on the Street Festival
Coming up this Tuesday, I’ll be speaking on a free panel about the challenges facing QTPOC (queer trans people of colour) artists. The panel also features the wise and wonderful Farzana Doctor, author of three novels and a great advocate for other authors. Our moderator will be public educator, producer and advocate datejie green. This panel is being...
Read MoreNovel excerpt published in Review of Australian Fiction; latest consultancy work
Earlier this week, Australian literary journal Review of Australian Fiction (RAF) published an excerpt from chapter 3 of my novel-in-progress. This excerpt appears under the title “Are You There, God? It is I, Robot”. Each fortnightly issue of RAF publishes two stories by Australian writers. In this latest issue, my piece appears with a...
Read MoreJuly 6: Reading in Vancouver
Today is the last day of my Gushul Residency here in Blairmore, Alberta. Tomorrow, it’s time to leave for Vancouver, where I’ll be staying for around a week. While in Vancouver, I’ll be doing a reading at Historic Joy Kogawa House, which is where I was previously based as a writer-in-residence. At the reading, I plan to read an excerpt...
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