Saints and Sinners Festival Announces Playwriting Competition
Enter the Saints and Sinners Festival Playwriting Competition for the chance to have your play produced by the Marigny Theatre Corporation and premiered on the weekend of the 5th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. There is a $10 per…
Queer Group Readings/Signings and Reading Series
I'm looking for queer reading series in or around the following cities that Queer Shorts can be a part of: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, San Diego, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Northampton. I'm also looking for queer group readings/signings…
Our dogs, our hearts
I'm a dog person. I am a huge dog person. I notice that the people who are closest to me are also pet people. Maria forwarded this book to me because as soon as she saw the doggie focus, she…
Audacia Ray’s _Naked on the Internet_
Viviane's Sex Carnival is the newest addition to Daily Dose of Queer's blogroll and the Carnival of Bent Attractions upcoming hosts list. I visited Viviane's Blogger profile a few days ago and followed a link to NYC Perverts' Saloon, "a…
Hurry! Merge Press’ Book Sale Ends Soon!
For those of you who may not have already heard, Merge Press is offering a discount of 35% off the cover price of each book you purchase at throughout September. Enter the voucher code HUSH before checkout to get your…
Interview with Margarethe “Grethe†Cammermeyer
I saw this interview with Margarethe Cammermeyer from the Windy City Times. I first read about Margarethe's story in this book, which I loved: Another book telling her story: From the interview: WCT: I’ve read that the lack of recruiting…
Fall 2006 Blithe House Quarterly
The Fall 2006 issue of Blithe House Quarterly, featuring "a diversity of new short stories by emerging and established lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered authors," is available online now! I was pulled into Michael Langan's short story, Skin, by its…
James McGreevey’s Tell-All
McGreevey is the former New Jersey Govenor who resigned in 2004 after having an affair with former aide Golan Cipel. He's putting it out there in his new autobiography, The Confession. McGreevey said he erected a "steel wall around my…
New Trans/Gender Variant Anthology
Morty Diamond, editor of From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond and producer and director of Trannyfags, is looking for "first person stories from trans and gender variant writers about the experience of dating, sex, relationships, and…
Darrah de jour. And more Darrah de jour!
Darrah de Jour, whose Femme in the City column you read every month (right?), will be appearing for a poetry and shorts reading at San Gabriel Valley Pride this weekend! From Darrah (I'll be quoting an email from her throughout):…