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A celebration of LGBTQ writers from the DMV.
Join the Library for a full day of readings, workshops, and panels from DC's LGBTQ literary community. Find Your Story will be a day of workshops, presentations, and author talks focused on DC’s writing community. For World Pride the event will have a special focus on LGBTQ writers in the DC area. The day will include panel discussions, informal writing workshops, and a dedicated poetry stage.
DC's Liwanag DC Filipino Book Festival organizers and Queer Poets perform poems of the ever evoloving struggle to come out as queer, bisexual, non-binary and how their lives are impacted during the current administration.
Join the Library and PEN/Faulkner Foundation. for a special conversation with literary icons Manil Suri and Rabih Allameddine. Moderated by novelist Jeffrey Dale Lofton, the conversation will explore their work as gay novelists and reflections on community and friendship among writers.
Lunch and Networking
Join us for a moderated conversation with Find Your Story’s Signature Speaker, Denne Michele Norris. Norris will discuss her debut novel When the Harvest Comes, a story about a young Black gay man, estranged from his father, must confront his painful past—and his deepest desires around gender, love, and sex.
Join a panel of LGBTQ romance authors for a discussion on the art of telling LGBTQ+ love stories, new perspectives on romance genre traditions, and writing meaningful "happily ever afters" for queer characters. Afterwards, meet the authors, have your books signed, and collect generative writing prompts for an informal workshop.
Dr. Casey Catherine Moore and Regie Cabico, co-curators of DC's premiere queer comedy and spoken word series, HomoStanzas. share their queer biographical love poems and inspirations such as Sappho and Ishanee Chanda. Participants will also generate their original queer love poem, sharing their work in a nurturing and positive space. Be prepared to craft evocative verses that celebrate queer love, identity, and resilience.
A special World Pride edition of Los Bookis Podcast recorded live in front of an audience, featuring a roundtable discussion with queer Latine writer: Venessa Vida Kelley, author of When the Tides Held the Moon.
Regie Cabico, the Fairy Godmother of Spoken Word, and Kim Roberts, the premier literary historian of DC, curate and host fourteen LGBTQ+ poets from the greater DC region as they share poetry of love and resilience. Join us in the afternoon for a book fair featuring small local presses and an open mic.
Celebrate the community of independent presses and publishers in the DC area amplifying the voices of LGBTQ writers with a press fair and open mic featuring their work.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | LGBTQ Pride | Author Talk |
