Tanya Boteju, Billeh Nickerson, Hiromi Goto, and more join Queer Writers' Showcase, July 27
Co-presented by Amazon, Vancouver Pride Festival’s online event features leading local 2SLGBTQAI+ writers
Tanya Boteju is a teacher and writer whose 2019 novel Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens (Simon & Schuster) was named a Top Ten Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association, as well as selected for the American Librarian Association 2020 Rainbow List. Her forthcoming YA novel, Bruised (Simon & Schuster, 2021), has been selected as a Gold Standard book by the Junior Library Guild.
Vancouver Pride Society presents Queer Writers’ Showcase, in partnership with Amazon, July 27 online at 8 pm PDT as part of Vancouver Pride Festival 2021.
SEVEN LEADING LOCAL 2SLGBTQAI+ writers will share their work and take part in a Q&A as part of this year’s Vancouver Pride Festival.
The virtual event features readings by Tanya Boteju, Hiromi Goto, Billeh Nickerson, Gem Hall, Isabella Wang, Rabbit Richards, and Rae Spoon.
Boteju’s 2019 novel Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens (Simon & Schuster) was named a Top Ten Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association and was selected for the American Librarian Association 2020 Rainbow List. Her forthcoming YA novel, Bruised (Simon & Schuster, 2021), has been selected as a Gold Standard book by the Junior Library Guild.
Goto won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book, Canada and Caribbean Region, for her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, which was the co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. Her first graphic novel, 2021’s Shadow Life (First Second), was inspired by her grandmother and centres on an older Asian queer hero.
Nickerson’s books include McPoems (Arsenal Pulp), the City of Vancouver Book Award-nominated Artificial Cherry (Arsenal Pulp), and his most recent collection, Duct-Taped Roses (Book*hug).
Hall has a background in DIY/zine culture as well as queer and trans community organizing. Hall also illustrated Spoon’s first YA novel, Green Glass Ghosts, which came out this past spring.
Spoon has published three books with Arsenal Pulp Press and a humorous booklet called How to (Hide) Be(hind) Your Songs. Their first book, First Spring Grass Fire, was nominated for a Lambda Literary award aRichards, who focuses on anti-oppression and accessibility work, has been published in Room magazine and Pride magazine, among other publications.
Focusing on anti-oppression and accessibility work, Richards has been published in Room magazine and Pride magazine, among other publications.
Wang, the author of the chapbook, On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press 2019) and the full-length debut, Pebble Swing (Nightwood Editions, October 2021); was recently shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year award and The Malahat Review's Long Poem Contest.
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