Name: Drag Brunch Reading: Sold out!
Start: 2023-03-11T11:00:00-08:00
End: 2023-03-11T13:30:00-08:00
Location: The Fireside Room

Drag Brunch Reading: Sold out!

Lambda Literary

Lambda Literary is proud to present a Drag Brunch Reading! Hosted by  Wo Chan & Tim "TinTim" Jones-Yelvington and featuring Retreat fellows

The Fireside Room

Lambda Literary is proud to present a Drag Brunch Reading! Hosted by drag Wo Chan &amp; Tim &quot;TinTim&quot; Jones-Yelvington and featuring Lambda Literary Retreat fellows.

Tim &quot;TinTim&quot; Jones-Yelvington is the author of the fiction volumes &quot;Don&#x27;t Make Me Do Something We&#x27;ll Both Regret&quot; (Texas Review Press), &quot;Strike a Prose: Memoirs of a Lit Diva Extraordinaire&quot; (co•im•press), &quot;This is a Dance Movie!&quot; (Tiny Hardcore Press), and &quot;Evan&#x27;s House and the Other Boys Who Live There&quot; (Rose Metal Press), and the prize-winning poetry volumes &quot;Colton Behavioral Therapy&quot; (Gazing Grain Press) and &quot;Become On Yr Face&quot; (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press).

Wo Chan, who performs as The Illustrious Pearl, is a poet and drag artist. They are a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize and the author of Togetherness (2022). Wo has received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary. Their poems appear in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, The Margins, and elsewhere. As a member of the Brooklyn-based drag/burlesque collective Switch N’ Play, Wo has performed at venues including The Whitney Museum of American Art, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts, and the Architectural Digest Expo. Find them at @theillustriouspearl.

<h1>Readers:</h1>Kristen Arnett is the New York Times Bestselling queer author of the novels With Teeth (Riverhead, 2021) and Mostly Dead Things (Tin House, 2019) as well as the short fiction collection Felt in the Jaw (Split Lip Press, 2017). She lives and writes in Orlando, Florida.Stephen Patrick Bell (he/him) is a writer raised in New York by Jamaican immigrants, currently based in Chicago where he produced The Moth StorySLAM. His work revolves around themes of class, race, immigrant experience, sex and sexuality, loss, grief, otherness, and neurodiversity. Stephen lives in a classic six with his husband, where they collect art and operate a sex therapy practice. When not reading, writing, traveling, or cooking, he can be found eating his way through various cities. He is currently working on his first novel. Twitter: stephenOrBell Instagram: stephenPatrick.BellKyle Raymond Fitzpatrick is a queer, Latinx writer based in Los Angeles and Barcelona. His fiction has been published by Quarterly West, PRISM International, Cosmonauts Avenue, Midnight Breakfast, The Exposition Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and more. He is at work on his first novel and is a 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow. He loves dogs, pét-nat, and short shorts.noam keim (they/them) is a trans Jewish Arab trauma worker, medicine maker and flâneur freak who writes essays that weave threads of colonialism, longing, reverence to the natural world and trauma healing. noam is a Periplus fellow ’23 and their work has been shaped by the Lambda Emerging Writers ’22, Roots.Wounds.Word ’23 and the Tin House Winter workshop ’23. Their essay collection titled The Land is Holy won the Megaphone Prize 2022 judged by Hanif Abdurraqib and is expected to be published by Radix Media in 2024. Find them at thelandisholy.com or on IG/twitter @thelandisholy.MARS is a writer and cultural organizer born and raised in Detroit. Their work has been published in Obsidian Literature &amp; Arts for the African Diaspora, Michigan Quarterly Review: The Mixtape, Foglifter Journal, Gertrude Press, and elsewhere. MARS is a 2021 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow in Poetry and a 2019 Lambda Literary Art Emerging Writers Fellow in Poetry. Their debut chapbook, FLOWER BOI, is available via Gold Line Press. Shelby Pinkham (she/they) is a Chicanx, bipolar poet from the Central Valley. Her writing appears in PANK, Honey Literary, Poetry Online, and elsewhere. They earned an MA from Cal State Bakersfield and an MFA at Fresno State. She was selected for Lambda Literary’s Emerge Editorial Scholarship and a fellowship at the Writer’s Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices. Additionally, she was a finalist in the 2022 Sappho Prize, and her book, Rx / suppressor, was named a semifinalist in Noemi’s 2022 Poetry Prize. They work as an editor for the Kern County literary journal Rabid Oak and as an educator. Dior J. Stephens is a proud pisces hailing from Midwestern waters. He is the author of the chapbooks SCREAMS &amp; lavender, 001, and CANNON!. Their debut full-length collection, CRUEL/CRUEL, will be released 3/14 with Nightboat Books. They are the Managing Poetry Editor of Foglifter Journal and Press. They tweet at @dolphinneptune and Instagram at @dolphinphotos. Tauheed Zaman (he/him) is a writer and physician whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Salon, Catapult and Foglifter Journal. He was selected by Lambda Literary as a 2022 Emerging Voices fellow, and his prose is upcoming in the organization’s anthology, Emerge (2023). He serves as an associate editor of hybrid/nonfiction at Foglifter, and is working on his first book of experimental essays. When not writing, you can find him singing with the San Francisco Gay Men&#x27;s Chorus or kayaking the Pacific coast. IG: @agentmowgli

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