2010 Speakers
Noel Alumit
Noel Alumit’s novels are Letters to Montgomery Clift and Talking to the Moon. He is the winner of the Stonewall Book Award, Violet Quill Award, and Global Filipino Literary Award. His acclaimed theatre pieces include Mr. and Mrs. La Questa Go Dancing,... (more...)
Gavin Atlas
Gavin Atlas is the author of a collection of gay erotic short stories entitled The Boy Can’t Help It (Lethe Press) as well as e-publications such as “La Playita” and “Slave to Shadows.” His fiction has appeared in anthologies... (more...)
David-Matthew Barnes
David-Matthew Barnes is the author of the forthcoming young adult novel Mesmerized (2010; Bold Strokes Books) and the forthcoming literary suspense novel The Common Bond (P.D. Publishing, 2011). He wrote and directed the coming-of-age film Frozen Stars,... (more...)
Elaine Beale
Elaine Beale’s latest novel, Another Life Altogether, was published in February 2010 by Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House. She was the 2007 winner of the Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange Award in fiction. Elaine grew... (more...)
Bruce Benderson
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Steve Berman
Since he began writing at age seventeen, Steve Berman has sold nearly 100 articles, essays and short stories. He has twice been a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards for his editorial efforts. His novel Vintage was a finalist for the Andre Norton... (more...)
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the recipient of the 2009 Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction, the 2009 Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, a California Arts Council Fellowship, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science Foundation... (more...)
Dustin Brookshire
Dustin Brookshire is a poet and activist living in Atlanta, Georgia. Dustin is the founder and editor of Limp Wrist, an online magazine with queer sensibility. He also founded Quarrel, a poetry blog placing emphasis on the revision process, and... (more...)
Rob Byrnes
Rob Byrnes is the author of four novels—Straight Lies (2009); When the Stars Come Out (2006); Trust Fund Boys (2004); and The Night We Met (2002)—and has contributed to several anthologies, including Fool for Love (2009). A native of upstate... (more...)
Dale Chase
Now in her second decade of writing male erotica, Dale Chase thrives on a creative life interspersed with bits of reality. Over 130 of her stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including translation into German and Italian. Her... (more...)
Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper’s most recent book is The Bill From My Father. He is also the author of Maps To Anywhere, A Year of Rhymes, Truth Serum, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again. Cooper is the recipient of the 1991 PEN/USA Ernest Hemingway... (more...)
Wayne Courtois
Wayne Courtois is author of the memoir A Report from Winter (www.reportfromwinter.com). His novel My Name Is Rand was published in 2004, and a second novel, Tales My Body Told Me, is forthcoming. His short fiction has appeared in many anthologies, including... (more...)
Jameson Currier
Jameson Currier is the author of two novels and four collections of short fiction, most recently The Haunted Heart and Other Tales, which was awarded a Black Quill Award for Best Dark Genre Fiction Collection. This year, he began Chelsea Station Editions,... (more...)
Sven Davisson
Sven Davisson (with his partner Nathaniel Bamford) is the publisher of Rebel Satori Press and its imprint QueerMojo. Sven is also editor of Ash?©! Journal now in its ninth year. He is the author of The Starry Dynamo, and editor of the anthologies When... (more...)
James Driggers
James Driggers teaches writing at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is the author of two plays. Driggers’ most recent fiction is a collection of Southern noir stories entitled Lovesick. He and his husband live in the mountains outside... (more...)
Peter Dubé
Peter Dubé is a Montreal-based writer. He is the author of the novel Hovering World (DC Books, 2002), a collection of linked short stories, At the Bottom of the Sky, (DC Books, 2007), and most recently, the novella Subtle Bodies (Lethe Press, 2010).... (more...)
Amie M. Evans
Amie M. Evans has published over 50 short stories and essays as well as one novella. She is a creative-nonfiction and literary erotica writer, experienced workshop provider, and a retired burlesque performer. Evans is the co-editor of two anthologies:... (more...)
Joe Formichella
Joe Formichella is a Hackney Literary Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee whose books include The Wreck of the Twilight Limited, Here’s To You, Jackie Robinson, Murder Creek, and Staying Ahead of the Posse. He lives amongst several other equally... (more...)
Philip Gambone
Philip Gambone’s debut collection of short stories, The Language We Use Up Here, and first novel, Beijing, were Lambda Literary Award nominees. His book of interviews, Something Inside: Conversation with Gay Fiction Writers, was named one of the... (more...)
Gregory Gerard
Gregory Gerard’s work has appeared in Tiny Lights, The Stone Table Review, and World Voice, and has been featured on OUTTAKE VOICES and OutCast Radio. Gerard teaches writing at Writers & Books, Rochester’s community literary center, and... (more...)
Peter Giovanni
Peter Giovanni is a singer, dancer and actor. Over the course of his three-decade-long career, he has performed in just about every musical out there, including roles in Chicago (1st National Tour and Beatrix Theater, NL), Grease (Broadway Revival),... (more...)
Lisa Girolami
Lisa Girolami is the author of The Pleasure Set, Love on Location, Run to Me, and “Finding Grace,” a short story in the anthology, Romantic Interludes 1: Discovery. She has been in the entertainment industry for thirty years, including ten... (more...)
Rigoberto Gonzalez
Rigoberto Gonzalez is the author of eight books, including the recent young adult novel The Mariposa Club. His awards include a Guggenheim, an NEA, The Poetry Center Book Award and the Before Columbus American Book Award for his memoir, Butterfly Boy:... (more...)
Wayne Gregory
Wayne Gregory is a late bloomer to the writing world and to being out, but he’s making up for lost time on both fronts. Wayne’s work has appeared in The Sun, Alltopia, and the anthology, Portland Queer. He has recently completed a memoir... (more...)
Jim Grimsley
Jim Grimsley is an award-winning playwright and author. His latest novels are The Last Green Tree, and Forgiveness, which was published as part of the inaugural James. A. Michener Fiction Series. His story collection, Jesus Is Sending You This Message,... (more...)
Greg Herren
Greg Herren is the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of twelve novels, two novellas, and over fifty short stories. As an editor, he has published ten anthologies including the award-winning Love, Bourbon Street: Reflections on New Orleans. An HIV... (more...)
William Holden
William Holden lives in Cambridge Massachusetts with his partner of 13 years. His writing career spans more than a decade, with over 35 published short stories in erotica, romance, fantasy, and horror. He has served as fiction editor for RFD Magazine,... (more...)
Suzanne Hudson
Suzanne Hudson, is the author of two literary novels, In a Temple of Trees and In the Dark of the Moon. Her work has been included in anthologies such as Stories from the Blue Moon Caf?©, volumes I, II, and IV; The Alumni Grill; Climbing Mt. Cheaha;... (more...)
Fay Jacobs
Fay Jacobs is the publisher of A&M Books, a successor to the legendary Naiad Press. A&M distributes the 14 classic novels of Sarah Aldridge along with Jacobs’ own two essay collections, As I Lay Frying – a Rehoboth Beach Memoir and... (more...)
G. Winston James
G. Winston James is a Jamaican-born poet, author, essayist and editor. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and is the author of the collections Shaming the Devil: Collected Short Stories, The Damaged Good: Poems Around Love and the Lambda... (more...)
Michele Karlsberg
Michele Karlsberg brings a unique combination of skills to effectively carry out publicity campaigns for authors, organizations and film/theater professionals. She has worn many hats in her publishing career including author, publisher, consultant and... (more...)
Thomas Keith
Thomas Keith, a writer and editor, has edited the poems of Jimmy Santiago Baca, as well as several plays by Tennessee Williams. He is the co-author of The Histories of Gladys (Edwin Mellon Press) and The Collector’s Guide to Mauchline Ware (ACC,... (more...)
Collin Kelley
Collin Kelley is a novelist, poet and playwright. His debut novel, Conquering Venus, has just been released. His poetry collections include After the Poison, Slow To Burn and Better To Travel. He is a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and a recipient of... (more...)
Robin Kemp
Robin Kemp is an award-winning poet and doctoral candidate at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Born in New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day and active in the city’s gay community during the 80s, she has written for Gambit, New Orleans Magazine, Louisiana... (more...)
Anne Laughlin
Anne Laughlin’s stories have been published in a number of anthologies produced by Alyson Books, Cleis Press, and Bold Strokes Books. Her first novel, Sometimes Quickly, was published by P.D. Publishing in 2008. Her first novel with Bold Strokes... (more...)
Sonja Livingston
Sonja Livingston is the author of the debut memoir Ghostbread (University of Georgia Press), winner of the Association of Writing Programs’ (AWP) Book Prize for Nonfiction. She has been honored with a NYFA Fellowship and an Iowa Review Award, and... (more...)
Lee Lynch
Lee Lynch has been writing since her work appeared in The Ladder in the 1960s.The most recent of her 14 books, Sweet Creek and Beggar of Love, were published by Bold Strokes Books. Her short stories can be found in Romantic Interludes and at www.readtheselips.com.... (more...)
Ed Madden
Ed Madden’s first book of poetry, Signals, won the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. His has appeared in Best New Poets 2007, Best Gay Poetry 2008, and The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. He is the co-editor... (more...)
James Magruder
James Magruder’ s stories have appeared or will appear in The Gettysburg Review, Bloom, Subtropics, The Normal School, and the anthologies, Boy Crazy and New Stories from the Midwest. His d?©but novel, Sugarless was published in October 2009 (University... (more...)
Jill Malone
Jill Malone is, surprisingly, an accountant. Let’s face it: no one expects accountants to be able to write. Let alone write a book described as “terrific” (Jess Walter), “wonderfully impressive” (Sarah Waters), and “one... (more...)
Jeff Mann
Jeff Mann’s poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many publications, including Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Laurel Review and The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. He has published three award-winning poetry chapbooks, Bliss, Mountain Fireflies,... (more...)
Marianne K. Martin
Marianne K. Martin is one of the top selling lesbian romance authors in the country and her books have gained a wide international readership. Her highly successful novels include the Lambda Literary Award finalists Under the Witness Tree, Mirrors, and... (more...)
Rena Mason
Rena Mason is a SUNY graduate and retired operating room nurse recently relocated to the Pacific Northwest from Las Vegas, Nevada. Work, travel and life experiences are what she weaves into her intriguing stories of science fiction, fantasy and horror.... (more...)
Alistair McCartney
Alistair McCartney is the author of The End of the World Book, which was a finalist for the 2009 Publishing Triangle’s Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and the 2009 PEN USA Fiction award. McCartney received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch... (more...)
Kelly McQuain
Kelly McQuain holds an MFA from UNO and is a two-time recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship and a winner of Philadelphia City Paper Writing Awards in both fiction and poetry. He has served as a juror for Philadelphia International... (more...)
Tom Mendicino
Tom Mendicino lives in Philadelphia. His debut novel Probation was published by Kensington Books in April 2010. www.tommendicino.com Read More →
Michael Nava
Michael Nava is the author of a seven-volume series of novels featuring a gay Latino criminal defense lawyer, Henry Rios. Published between 1988 and 2000, the Rios novels (The Little Death, Goldenboy, Howtown, The Hidden Law, The Death of Friends, The... (more...)
Clara Nipper
Clara Nipper is a writer living in Tulsa, OK. Her book, Femme Noir, was released in September, 2009 and the sequel, Kiss of Noir, will be released in August, 2010, both from Bold Strokes Books. She is currently working on a new murder mystery involving... (more...)
James Nolan
James Nolan’s latest book is Perpetual Care, a collection of short stories set in New Orleans, which won a 2009 Next Generation Indie Book Award. The manuscript of his novel Higher Ground was awarded the 2008 William Faulkner-Wisdom Prize. His... (more...)
Joe Openshaw
Joe Openshaw is a retired veterinarian and current opinions writer and reporter for several outlets, including his blog, www.bessemeropinions.com. He serves his community by being involved in local politics and serves on the Bessemer (Alabama)... (more...)
