2010 Festival
Pitch Your Manuscript
Once again this year, Bold Strokes Books will be providing authors the opportunity to pitch their work to editors Radclyffe and Greg Herren. The pitch meetings will last for ten minutes and will take place Friday afternoon. Please contact: publisher@boldstrokesbooks.com... Read more →
Cecilia Tan
Cecilia Tan is the woman Susie Bright called “simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature.” She is the author of numerous books of short stories and erotic novels, ebooks, and... Read more →
Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper has written two collections of memoirs, Maps to Anywhere and Truth Serum, as well as a novel, A Year of Rhymes, and a collection of short stories, Guess Again. His work has appeared in Story, Ploughshares, Harper’s, The Paris Review,... Read more →
2010 Master Classes
We’ve lined up a whole krewe of literary greats for our Master Class series. Check out the terrific options below. Each will offer practical tips, inspiring insights, and a little lagniappe to take away. Here’s the list of all our Master Class offerings: Lucy... Read more →
Download the 2010 Discount Registration Form
Good through postmark date of March 1st 2010 Discount Registration Form (106.7 KiB) Please download and print out the discount registration form that lists our ticketed events. This form includes the weekend pass for all literary panels and... Read more →
Emanuel Xavier
Emanuel Xavier is the author of the poetry collection Americano, the novel Christ Like, and editor of Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry and Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry. He has been featured on Russell Simmons... Read more →
Fiona Zedde
Fiona Zedde is a transplanted Jamaican currently living and working in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has been published in various anthologies including Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 and 2007, Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers, and Iridescence: Sensuous... Read more →
Jim Grimsley
Jim Grimsley is an award winning playwright and author. His literary fiction includes such novels as My Drowning, Winter Birds, Dream Boy, and Comfort and Joy; his fantasy fiction includes the award winning novels Kirith Kirin and The Ordinary. His... Read more →
Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the recipient of the 2009 Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction, the 2009 Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, as well as a California Arts Council Fellowship, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science... Read more →
Host Hotel: The Bourbon Orleans Hotel
Located in the Heart of the French Quarter, the Bourbon Orleans – features classic Southern Charm with styling reminiscent of the French Opulence of the early 1800’s. With its centralized location – directly behind the famed St. Louis... Read more →
