“Adults are often largely absent from YA novels, or when they do appear are problems that need to be solved. Right from the beginning I wanted this to be about generations, about both the good and bad things that are passed between them.”… read more

“Are you thinking about applying to an MFA program? Concerned about queer writing being taken seriously? My biggest advice is to figure out what is most important to you in your graduate studies.”… read more

“AWP is a nationwide writing organization that provides ‘support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers.'”… read more

“I want to write queer books that reflect our queer lives, bodies, relationships, and the worlds we build for each other.”… read more

Authors Sassafras Lowrey, Laura Antoniou, and Cecilia Tan discuss BDSM writing in a post-Fifty Shades literary world… read more

Lost Boi is a counterculture fairy tale, but the way Lowery turns all expectations upside down and finds hope in the darkest corners is the real magic here…. read more

Yesterday, while the NYC sky was dark and stormy and filled with tears, I learned that Leslie Feinberg had passed away. I was on the N train, dazed and crying, surrounded by tourists and commuters. I was unable to find the right words to describe Leslie’s influence and what hir passing means to me, personally,… read more

Gender Failure is not a simple Trans 101 lesson, rather this book offers a far more compelling story that brings readers to the hotel rooms, kitchen tables, and inner lives of Rae and Ivan…. read more

An assortment of writers, including Michelle Tea, Malinda Lo, Darnell Moore, and Miguel Morales, answer a few questions about the nature of queer writing…. read more

Brace Yourself—part title, part warning—is the debut e-book collection from Alysia Angel. Angel, a noted fiction, non-fiction, and memoir-based writer and a 2011 and 2012 alumnus of the Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat, is a force to be reckoned with. A self-described southern-bred working class high femme queer, Angel expertly brings readers into the gritty underbelly… read more