Rebel Satori Press

No Banned Books Here - Staten Island
2023-05-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Pride Centger of Staten Island, 66 Willow Ave., Suite 202, Clifton, Staten Island, NY, United States
Join poet Emanuel Xavier, memoirist Felice Cohen and author Gerard Cabrera as they discuss their writing and what other writers inspired them to write. They will read from their works, hold an open discussion, followed by a meet and greet.

Gold Room Anthology Launch
2023-05-15 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Blue Cypress Books, 8123 Oak St., New Orleans, LA, United States
Join Rebel poet Daniel W.K. Lee at the Gold Room Anthology Launch

Invisible History Reading DC
2023-05-07 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Little District Books, 737 8th St SE, Washington, DC, 20003, United States
Join editors Michael Bronksi and Philip Clark as they read and discuss late Walter Borawski’s collected poems.

Daniel W.K. Lee @ Old Metairie Library
2023-05-06 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Old Metarie Library, 2350 Metarie Rd., Metairie, LA, United States
Poetry at Old Metairie Library featuring Daniel WK Lee, Christine Kwon, Carolyn Hembree, Brad Richard, Cameron Lovejoy, and Gina Ferrara

NYC Rainbow Book Fair
2023-04-22 12:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Rainbow Book fair is back! For our 10th Fair, our theme is “Weird & Queer.”
Join Rebel Satori authors Tom Cardamone, Sven Davisson, Brian Alessandro, Antonio Addessi, Larry Closs, Philip Clarke, and others at this year’s Book Fair.
There has always been a thin line between queerness and weirdness. After all, “queer” means not just not conforming to gender and sexual norms, but strange and odd.
So we’re celebrating the ways that queer writing has transformed
science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres,
with panels and readings showcasing the best in weird queerness (or queer weirdness!).
Of course, you don’t have to be a fan of sci-fi or gothic lit to exhibit in or come to the Rainbow Book Fair! We’re the largest expo of LGBTQ books in the US, and we’ve been bringing together queer readers, writers, and publishers for over a decade. To book a table, click here. For more information about the Fair, click here.
The Rainbow Book Fair is the largest LGBTQ+ book event in the US. It is totally unique—there is no other book fair quite like it. At the RBF, the people who write, read, publish, and sell our books are taken seriously, but with a lot of queer humor and love thrown in.

New Orleans Poetry Festival
2023-04-15 09:45 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude, New Orleans, LA, 70117, United States
Come see Rebel Satori poets read at this year’s New Orleans Poetry Festival:
Antonio Addessi (Sleeptalking)
Daniel W. K. Lee (Anatomy of Want)
Octavio R. González (limerence)
Scott Hightower (forthcoming fall 2023)
Festival Runs 9 – 5 Saturday and Sunday.
Rebel Readers Showcase at 9:45 on Saturday

Christian Baines in Toronto
2023-04-01 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Flash on Church, 463 Church St, Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 2C7, Canada
Book Launch for My Cat’s Guide to Online Dating by Christian Baines at Flash in Toronto.

Saints+Sinners NOLA Literary Festival
2023-03-24 - 2023-03-26 | Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
Join many of our authors for the 20th Annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans! Readings and sessions will feature Emanuel Xavier, Tom Cardamone, Christian Baines, Daniel Lee, and Jerry L. Wheeler among others.
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 literary arts.
A program of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, SASFest has grown into an internationally-recognized event that brings together a who’s who of LGBTQ+ publishers, writers and readers from throughout the United States and beyond. The Festival, held over 3 days each spring at the Hotel Monteleone in the New Orleans French Quarter, features panel discussions and master classes around literary topics that provide a forum for authors, editors and publishers to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of fans of LGBTQ+ literature.

March Poetry & Pie with Daniel Lee and Allison Alsup
2023-03-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | Windowsill Pies, 4714 Freret St., New Orleans, LA, 70115, United States
Join us for the sweetest literary reading in New Orleans! This month we are featuring local writers Daniel Lee and Allison Alsup. Open mic to follow!

Daniel W.K. Lee (李華強) is a third-generation refugee, queer, Cantonese American born in Kuching, Malaysia. He earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at The New School, and his debut collection of poetry, Anatomy of Want, was published by QueerMojo/Rebel Satori Press in 2019. Daniel makes New Orleans his home with his head-turning whippet Camden. Find out more about him at danielwklee.com or follow him: @strongplum on Instagram / @danielsaudade on Twitter.

Allison Alsup is an award-winning writer, teacher and editor. She holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Emerson College. Her short stories have won multiple contests and appear, among other places, in the 2014 O’Henry Prize Stories and the U.K.‘s 2018 Manchester Fiction Prize shortlist; her non-fiction in Best Food Writing 2015. Her debut novel, Foreign Seed, is to be published next summer by Keylight Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing reserved for works believed to have cinematic potential.

As co-founder of the New Orleans Writers Workshop, Allison has taught a multitude of classes, helping hundreds of writers to hone their craft and achieve their creative writing goals–whether that be revising a story, seeking a first publication or applying to M.F.A. programs. She also mentors writers individually on projects ranging from short personal essays to full-length novels.

Allison firmly believes that engaging with creative expression, whether our own or that of others, not only serves to explore the human condition but is what defines the human condition.

Invisible History Book Launch
2022-12-01 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Bureau of General Services Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, on the second floor (room 210) of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.

Also live-streaming at https://www.youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
All are welcome to attend, with or without donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or via Venmo @bgsqd

Louisiana Words Live
2022-06-26 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Always Lounge & Cabaret, 2240 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, LA, 70117, United States
Join a selection of Louisiana poets, including Daniel W.K. Lee, at The Allways Lounge & Cabaret for Louisiana Words New Orleans Pride reading event. In addition to Daniel, readers include J. Michael Norris, TQ Sims, Jorge Arturo, and Louis Toliver, Jr. There will be open mic sessions and readings by some of New Orleans’ favorite queer poets and writers.

Fever Spores Book Launch
2022-06-23 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Bureau of General Services Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join editors Brian Alessandro and Tom Cardamone for the launch of their much anticipated anthology Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs.

Brian Yapko @ Beastly Books, Santa Fe
2022-06-22 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Beastly Books, 418 Montezuma Ave, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Biran Yapko, author of the recent Queer Space release El Nuevo Mundo, will be at Beastly Books in Santa Fe so read, discuss and sign books. Brian will be joined by author Reese Hogan (Shrouded Loyalties) for a discussion of queer Sci Fi.
Come learn more about Brian’s new book, expand your knowledge of LGBTQ+ speculative fictions, and check out this unique bookstore.

The Quiet Before: Brian Alessandro Interviews Gal Beckerman
2022-06-17 18:00 - 19:30 (America/Chicago) | NY
Fever Spores co-editor Brian Alessandro interviews Gal Beckerman author of The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas. Streaming live via Queens Public Library’s Culture Connection June 17 at 7pm EDT. They will discuss the modest, grassroots beginnings of major social movements and political revolutions. Streaming live via Facebook and YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/QueensPublicLibrary
https://www.facebook.com/QPLNYC

Saints & Sinners Literary Festival
2022-06-10 19:10 (America/Chicago) | NY
19th Saints & Sinners Literary Festival
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 literary arts.
A program of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, SASFest has grown into an internationally-recognized event that brings together a who’s who of LGBTQ+ publishers, writers and readers from throughout the United States and beyond. The Festival, held over 3 days each spring at the Hotel Monteleone in the New Orleans French Quarter, features panel discussions and master classes around literary topics that provide a forum for authors, editors and publishers to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of fans of LGBTQ+ literature.
Early Bird Tickets available through December 31, save $25 on event registration!

Tilted House Spring 2022 Release Party
2022-06-10 18:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | The Front, 4100 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, LA, 70117, United States
Daniel W.K. Lee will appear with other contributors at a celebration celebrating the release of the Spring 2022 issue of New Orlean’s Tilted House Review.

The Poetry of Place & Queer Creolization of New Orleans Poets
2022-04-24 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago) | Greenway Station, 436 North Norman C Francis Parkway, New Orleans, 70119, United States
A poetry reading that would center around the poetry of location, of place, and how it is transformed, articulated, and experienced as queers, as a theme. Antonio Addessi (Sleeptalking, Rebel Satori 2022) would introduce the poets and we would be reading 3-4 poems each. All together 4 poets—Antonio, and local New Orleanian poets Daniel W.K. Lee (The Anatomy of Want, Rebel Satori’s Queer Mojo 2019), Z’étoile Imma, and Brad Richard. We then would like to follow the reading with a panel discussion moderated by Antonio discussing with the poets about their experience of being queer and being a part of the New Orleans community. Some of the topics we will explore is inspiration for writing, the writing process and how New Orleans herself has impacted their writing. In essence, we would explore writer Nick Spitzer’s articulation of “creolization,” that is, the conjoining of “multiple sources in new identities and expressions, continuously co-mingling and adapting traditions in ways that link the local, regional, and global.”

Rebel Satori Authors at New Orleans Poetry Festival
2022-04-16 - 2022-04-24 | NY
New Orleans Poetry Festival returns with live and virtual events.
Get ready for a newly organized and expanded festival. In the course of adapting the fest to our new Covid infested world, we believe we’ve come up with changes in venues and organization that will make it even more inclusive, exciting, informative, and fun. Building on what we learned in the online-only event last year, we will have more remote events this year, but we are also adding back to that mix the community and inspiration of live performance and the Small Press Fair.
The mission of the New Orleans Poetry Festival and Small Press Fair is to create a space for an inclusive and diverse group of writers to collaborate, share and influence each other while also being immersed in the distinct literary culture of New Orleans. As such, our goal every year is to bring in poets and performers from across the globe to share their work and research in topics not only specific to writing but to cultural, political and activist needs relevant to the current climate. We also hope to showcase the best writers that New Orleans has to offer allowing visitors to partake in the writing spirit unique to our city. The Festival is highly participatory with events ranging from workshops where you will be generating writing to open mics where you can share your work to getting out on the dance floor to listen and dance to our poets with bands. We invite the active inspiration of saturation in four days of poetry along with the collaboration of creating a temporary autonomous zone for fostering further explorations and creations that continue beyond the time spent here in New Orleans.
Live events will commence on Thursday April 21 at 7pm with our first live reading, featuring New Orleans poets Karisma Price, Té V. Smith, Henry Goldkamp, & Rebel Satori author Daniel W.K. Lee, presented by The Splice Poetry Series & Tilted House, at the Saturn Bar 3067 St Claude Ave, 70117.
Sunday 4/24 at 2:00 Rebel Satori’s Antonio Addessi and Daniel W.K. Lee among others
The Poetry of Place & Queer Creolization of New Orleans Poets

A poetry reading that would center around the poetry of location, of place, and how it is transformed, articulated, and experienced as queers, as a theme. Antonio Addessi would introduce the poets and we would be reading 3-4 poems each. All together 4 poets—Antonio, and local New Orleanian poets Daniel W.K. Lee, Z’étoile Imma, and Brad Richard. We then would like to follow the reading with a panel discussion moderated by Antonio discussing with the poets about their experience of being queer and being a part of the New Orleans community. Some of the topics we will explore is inspiration for writing, the writing process and how New Orleans herself has impacted their writing. In essence, we would explore writer Nick Spitzer’s articulation of “creolization,” that is, the conjoining of “multiple sources in new identities and expressions, continuously co-mingling and adapting traditions in ways that link the local, regional, and global.”

No admission fees will be charged.
Full schedule can be found here.

Saints & Sinners Literary Festival
2022-03-25 - 2022-03-27 | Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130, United States
19th Saints & Sinners Literary Festival
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 literary arts.
A program of the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival, SASFest has grown into an internationally-recognized event that brings together a who’s who of LGBTQ+ publishers, writers and readers from throughout the United States and beyond. The Festival, held over 3 days each spring at the Hotel Monteleone in the New Orleans French Quarter, features panel discussions and master classes around literary topics that provide a forum for authors, editors and publishers to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of fans of LGBTQ+ literature.
Early Bird Tickets available through December 31, save $25 on event registration!
Registration Link

Jerry Wheeler Reads @ Perfectly Queer (Zoom)
2021-12-15 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | NY
Perfectly Queer celebrates the holidays with readings in new fiction. Queer Space author Jerry Wheeler (PANGS) joins Jenny Bitner (HERE IS A GAME WE COULD PLAY, Jaime Cortez (GORDO), and Rob Rosen (SORT OF DEAD) Wednesday, December 15 from 7pm to 8pm Pacific online via Zoom.
More information
Get the link to the reading from perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com.

Scott Alexander Hess Talk & Booksigning
2021-11-04 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, 522 West Maple Street, Allentown, PA, 18101, United States

Scott Alexander Hess in Allentown PA
2021-11-04 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, 522 West Maple Street, Allentown, PA, 18101, United States
Scott will read and sign books at this live event!
Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center

Emanuel Xavier Live Reading
2021-10-09 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Village Works, 90 E 3rd St Suite B, New York, NY, 10003, United States
First time back on stage since the pandemic at Village Works Bookstore in the East Village, NYC to promote “Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier” with a little help by the amazing Urayoán Noel. Special thanks to NYC Arts Corps for helping to make this event happen.

Shorties: Scott Alexander Hess and Joe Okonkwo
2021-09-16 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Chicago) | NY
Scott Alexander Hess and Joe Okonkwo discuss their latest books. Hess has a volume containing two novellas—The Root of Everythingand Lightning. Okonkwo has published a collection of short stories called Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck. After reading selections from their books, the authors will engage in a spirited conversation: How does writing short(er) fiction compare to composing full-length novels?
Patrick E. Horrigan, author of Pennsylvania Station, calls Hess’s novellas “Historical fiction at its cutting-edge best,” while noted author William J. Mann has lauded Okonkwo’s collection as “A remarkable examination of the human condition.”

Scott Joins: Drunken! Careening! Writers! Where the Boys Are!
2021-08-19 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY, 10003, United States
An in person event at the legendary KGB Bar. Scott joins writers Joe Okonkwo and Sokunthary Svay with your hostess, Kathleen Warnock.

The Root of Everything Book Launch
2021-08-12 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Performance Space, 222 East 46th Street, New York, NY, 10017, United States
A multi-media (in person) event with a host of artists, writers and entertainers at a one-of-a-kind Manhattan performance art gallery space. Scott will read from his new fiction, as well as feature performances and special guests. Save the date.

Scott Alexander Hess @ OutWright
2021-08-07 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Chicago) | NY
Scott Alexander Hess, author of The Root of Everything & Lightning, will appear at the OutWright Conference (virtual) panel Boys Behaving Badly.

Scott Alexander Hess on St. Louis Public Radio
2021-07-28 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | NY
Scott Alexander Hess author of the recently released The Root of Everything & Lightning will appear on St. Public Radio.

Daniel W.K. Lee @ Queer Home CookOut
2021-07-22 18:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Parleaux Beer Lab, 634 Lasseps St., New Orleans, LA, 70117, United States
To Celebrate the release of our anthology, HOME IS WHERE YOU QUEER YOUR HEART, we are touring the United States with a series of events by local queer artists in each city. The final city in the first leg of our tour is New Orleans!

The List of Artists:
Chanel Clark
Elizabeth Gross
Miah Jeffra
Chris Jennings
Jessica Kinnison
Daniel W.K. Lee
Megan McHugh
Karisma Price
Venue: (no ticketing for this event)

Parleaux Beer Lab
https://www.parleauxbeerlab.com/

Community Partners:
Tubby and Coo’s Bookshop
https://tubbyandcoos.com/

Scott Alexander Hess in St. Louis
2021-07-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Left Bank Books, Facebook Live, St. Louis, MO, United States
Left Bank Books welcomes award winning author Scott Alexander Hess, who will discuss his new pair of novellas, “The Root of Everything and Lightning,” on their Facebook Live Page at 7pm CT on July 15. Hess will be in conversation with St. Louis author Donald Miller. Join us on our Facebook Live Page.
