Alan Lessik Reading, Birmingham, UK

The Warehouse Allison Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night Shine, will be reading at the Warehouse in Birmingham.

Alan Lessik in Liverpool

Stonewater Zen 13 Hope Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night Shine, will be reading Stonewater Zen in Liverpool. Meditation session included.

Saints+Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival

Hotel Monteleone 214 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival was founded in 2003 as a new initiative designed as an innovative way to reach the community with information about HIV/AIDS, particularly disseminating prevention messages via the writers, thinkers and spokes-people of the LGBTQ+ community. It was also formed to bring the LGBTQ+ literary community together to celebrate the…

$200

Alan Lessik in Belfast

Black Mounin Zen Centre 65 Donegall Pass, Belfast, United Kingdom

Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night Shine, will be reading at the Black Mountain Zen Centre in Belfast.

Alan Lessik in Galway, Ireland

Galway Zen Doo 45 Dominic Street, Galway, Ireland

Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night Shine, will be reading at the Galway Zen Dojo. Meditation included.

Alan Lessik in Dublin, Ireland

Earth+Sky Dojo 1 Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin, Ireland

Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night Shine, will be reading at the Earth+Sky Dojo in Dublin. Meditation included.

Dale Corvino in Indianapolis

Dream Palace Books 111 E 16th St STE 101, Indianapolis, IN, United States

Bonds and Boundaries author Dale Corvino will be reading in Indianapolis at Dream Palace Books. Details will follow.

Dave Gaddy at Sacred Source Conference

The Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel 903 Dulaney Valley Rd, Towson, MD, United States

Dave Gaddy, author of The Simple Magic of Wild Things: The Journey of a Southern Male Wytch, will present his class on using ancestral magick to work through trauma at the 2024 Sacred Source Conference in Towson, Maryland.

$200

Corvino @ Leather History Archives, Chicago

Leather Archives and Museum 6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

Bonds and Boundaries author Dale Corvino will be reading in Chicago at the Leather Archives & Museum. Details will follow.

Emanuel Xavier at the NY Public Library

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library 455 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

A book party like no other, unpacking the pleasures and pain of working in the city. Kicking off NYPL’s World Literature Festival, join poets Camonghne Felix, Dorothea Lasky, Emanuel Xavier, and moderator Helena de Groot for readings and lively discussion about poetry, language, and labor. From day to day labor to the work of writing, this conversation…

Celebrating Time Remaining and James McCourt @BGSQD

Bureau of General Services Queer Division 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, United States

Please join us in celebrating the reissue of James McCourt’s 1993 novel of drag, AIDS, New York City and beyond: 1993’s Time Remaining. Critic Harold Bloom listed Time Remaining as one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. “McCourt is that rarest of contemporary American authors — a true iconoclast.” Dennis Cooper. To…

$10