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Queer Cultural Center

Stellium presents Forged, an online literary arts event celebrating queer and trans Black and POC writers.

2022 National Queer Arts Festival

Join us from June 9th to June 23rd, 2022 for the 25th Anniversary of NQAF with a lineup of amazing events and workshops across the Bay in-person and virtually worldwide.

Stellium presents Forged, an online literary arts event celebrating queer and trans Black and POC writers, featuring our inaugural Cusp Prize winners and lit mag contributors: TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter, Arden Maseko, Nuha Fariha, Dulce María Reyes Bonilla, and Ra Malika Imhotep. Host/Curator: Nefertiti Asanti (@electricfl0wer) is a poet from the Bronx, author of fist of wind and prose poetry editor of Stellium (@stelliumlit). They reside in Oakland, CA.With words from Stellium's Editor-in-Chief Danielle Monique (she/they) @dmoniquewrites .Link to this virtual event will be provided by email after ticket purchase.Accessibility information:Live captioning will be provided.

TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter is a Queer Black writer with a bachelor’s degree in creative writing and education, and a master’s degree in creative writing with a focus on comics and screenwriting from San Francisco State University. His work has been featured in Ramblr Magazine, Tayo Magazine’s special issue: SOFT, Transfer Magazine, BAD EGG Magazine, Borderless Magazine, The Ana Magazine, and Stellium Magazine. He is the author of the Young Adult novel The Marked Ones: Uprising. He is currently developing an autofiction short story collection based on three generations of Black women in his family. His Queer and Afrocentric fantasy novel, The Aziza Chronicles: Awakening, is forthcoming with Deep Hearts YA (fall 2022).

Other than a writer, lover, and frequent procrastinator, Arden Maseko (she/they) is a Rhodes University graduate, majoring in English and Journalism and Media Studies. Their writing is a mirror of their black queer non-binary experience, whether in poetry, short story form, or in journalistic work. She has also been published in select literary publications, such as Stellium, Fifth Wheel Press, and Hashtag Queer (Volume 3), and is a regular contributor to Gay Pages. She loves sunshine, wearing platform shoes, and laughing with loved ones.

Nuha Fariha (she/her) is a first generation, queer Bangladeshi writer. An MFA Candidate at Louisiana State University, she is the current Fiction Editor for the New Delta Review. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Thin Air Online, the Minion Project and Magma. She is the runner up for the 2021 CUSP Prize and the 2022 Road Runner Poetry Prize. Find her online @nuhawrites.

Dulce María Reyes Bonilla (they/she) is a transnational BlaQueer from the eastern side Ayiti/Kiskeya, calling Brooklyn home since 1989. Having also migrated into a lesbiqueer self and out of a cishet marriage in 1997, Dulce’s love of truth, social history and social stories, words in multiple languages, and jutuce, and training in ethnography hopelessly turned Dulce into a nonfiction writer. Dulce’s work has appeared in multiple outlets and won Stellium’s 2021 inaugural Cusp Prize in that category.

Ra Malika Imhotep (Ra/They) is a Black feminist writer and performance artist from Atlanta, Georgia currently completing a PhD in African Diaspora Studies and New Media Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. As a scholar and cultural worker, Ra is invested in exploring relationships between queer Black femininities, Black vernacular cultures, and the performance of labor. As a steward of Black Studies and Black feminist thought, Ra dreams, organizes, and facilitates spaces of critical reflection and embodied spiritual-political education. Ra is co-author of The Black Feminist Study Theory Atlas and their debut poetry collection gossypiin is being published by Red Hen Press, April 2022. ramalikaimhotep.com

Danielle Monique (she/they) is a Black queer nonbinary woman who writes short stories, screenplays, and essays. Originally from South Texas, they now live on the West Coast after stints in Boston, Baltimore, and Minneapolis. They have a B.A. in English and Africana Studies from Mount Holyoke College and half of a Creative Writing MFA from the University of Minnesota. When not writing, she can be found communing with the ancestors, running a leftist job-hunting group, serving as EIC of Stellium Literary Magazine, or taking sass from her dog.

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