Rebel Satori Press

Rebel Satori @BGSQD, New York
2024-06-28 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Rebel Satori authors, including publisher Sven Davisson, will be at the Bureau of General Services Queer Division. Details to come.

Denver Pride
2024-06-22 - 2024-06-23 | NY
Celebrate Denver pride. Rebel authors Jerry L. Wheeler and Christian Baines will be on hand with copies of their books.

New Orleans Pridefest
2024-06-08 | NY
Big Freedia will headline the New Orleans Pridefest. Come, dance, and you might just run into Rebel publisher Sven Davisson and other NOLA based authors in the crowd.
North Rampart and Elysian Fields, aka the iconic Phoenix Bar.

NOLA Pride with Local Authors
2024-06-06 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Latter Library, New Orleans, LA, United States
Daniel W.K. Lee joins other local New Orleans authors to celebrate Pride.

Noel Alumit @ Skylight Books
2024-06-04 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Skylight Books, 1818 North Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA, United States
Noel Alumit joins a star studded reading at Skylight Books.

Dale Corvino @ Sex Worker Sunday
2024-06-02 13:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Judson Memorial Church, NY, United States
Dale Corvino will be reading from his recent release Bonds and Boundaries at Sex Worker Sunday at the Judson Memorial Church, a sex worker affirming church.
Service 11AM Eastern
Readings begin at 1PM Eastern.

Celebrating Time Remaining and James McCourt @BGSQD
2024-05-30 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, 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 reserve a copy of Time Remaining (Library of Homosexual Congress, April 30, 2024, paperback, $19.95), please write to us at contact@bgsqd.com with “please reserve copy of Time Remaining for May 30” in the subject line.
Thank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!

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 on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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 on Venmo @BGSQD

James McCourt is the author of multiple works of fiction and nonfiction. He is best known for his acclaimed 1971 debut novel Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced Mardu Gorgeous) which is currently available with the New York Review Books Classics imprint. Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-85, published in 2003, was identified by The New York Times as an “heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation.” Critic Harold Bloom listed Time Remaining as one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.
James McCourt lives with his husband, author Vincent Virga, in New York City with summers spent in Ireland. They’ve been together since 1964.

Tim Young has written the new introduction for Time Remaining. He has been thinking and writing about the role of literature and music in the narrative of life for many decades. In addition to a series of essays on popular culture for Design Observer, he has contributed work for The Yale Review.

Emanuel Xavier @ Book Soup, West Hollywood
2024-05-23 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA, 90069, United States
Reading and book signing at Book Soup.

Rainbow Book Fair, NYC
2024-04-20 12:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | LGBT Center, 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Rebel Satori authors will be at the Rainbow Book Fair in New York City.

New Orleans Poetry Festival
2024-04-20 - 2024-04-21 | NY
Rebel Satori will be at the NOLA Poetry Festival’s 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 distinctive literary culture of New Orleans. 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 all aspects of the Humanities, including cultural, political, ecological and historical disciplines relevant to contemporary New Orleans, Louisiana, and the world. We showcase the best writers New Orleans has to offer to our visitors, and to the local community we try to offer the most compelling authors from across the nation and the globe. 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, from formal readings and panels to the most informal and collegial interactions and collaborations. For both locals and visitors we invite the active inspiration of four days of poetry immersion and collaboration, hopefully fostering further explorations and creations that continue beyond the time spent here in New Orleans.

Publishing Triangle Awards
2024-04-17 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The New School, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, United States
Emanuel Xavier MCs the Publishing Triangle Awards ceremony.
Join the Publishing Triangle on Wednesday, April 17 at The New School (63 Fifth Avenue off 13th Street, UC Auditorium) for the 36th annual Publishing Triangle Awards. The ceremony, hosted by poet and activist Emanuel Xavier, will also be livestreamed, and a reception will follow. The awards ceremony and reception are both FREE and open to the public. The event starts at 7pm but arrive early and take pics in front of our new step-and-repeat banner.
This celebration of LGBTQ+ authors and books will feature presenters Carole DeSanti, JP Howard, John Keene, Wo Chan, Reginald Harris, Hugh Ryan, Judy Grahn, Teresa DeCrescenzo, Christopher Bram, Stephen Greco, and Carol Rosenfeld. Michael Nava and Jacqueline Woodson will also present via video.
Winners in nine competitive categories will be announced. Special awards presented will include: Dorothy Allison with The Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement; Hilary Zaid with The Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award; Emily Drabinski with The Publishing Triangle Torchbearer Award; and Kris Kleindienst with The Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award.
*
*
Make sure to sign up for The Publishing Triangle Awards on Eventbrite. Tickets for the awards ceremony and reception are FREE but all guests must be registered in order to be able to enter The New School.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/publishing-triangle-36th-annual-awards-ceremony-tickets-875910149837
*
*
For a full list of finalists, reference our announcement post here- https://publishingtriangle.org/2024/03/2024-publishing-triangle-awards-finalists-announced/
*
*
For those unable to attend in person, the event will be livestreamed and can be viewed on Wednesday, April 17 starting at 7pm here:
https://newschool.zoom.us/s/92123970685

Emanuel Xavier at the NY Public Library
2024-04-15 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10016, 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 explores the way poetry embodies work, using our multicultural city’s rich labor history as the backdrop. Pioneering home recording artist Linda Smith will close out the event with a special musical performance.
This event will take place in person and online.
This World Literature Festival event is co-presented with Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a multicultural and multi-arts institution supporting rising poets, actors, filmmakers and musicians across New York City.
To join the event in person | Please register for an In-Person Ticket. Doors will open 45 minutes before the program begins. For in-person events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment; we will do our best to accommodate everyone. Booked seats that have not been claimed will be released shortly before start time, and seats may become available then. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program.
To join the event online | Please register for an Online Ticket. A livestream of this event will be available on this NYPL event page. To receive an email reminder shortly in advance of the event, please be sure to register! If you encounter any issues, please join us on NYPL’s YouTube channel.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The New York Public Library’s World Literature Festival celebrates books and writers from around the world and reflects the languages spoken in our communities. Discover what our patrons are reading in different languages, resources the Library offers, free events, book recommendations, and more.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Helena de Groot is the host and producer of the Poetry Foundation’s flagship podcast Poetry Off the Shelf. She also created the NYT-featured award-winning audiobook Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver, and is senior producer and sound designer for the Paris Review Podcast, lauded by The New Yorker.
Camonghne Felix received an MA in arts politics from New York University and an MFA from Bard College. Felix is the author Dyscalculia and Build Yourself a Boat, which was long-listed for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. The 2013 winner of the Cora Craig Award for Young Women, Felix has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Callaloo, and Poets House.
Emanuel Xavier was born in Brooklyn, New York. His poetry collections include: Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, Nefarious, Radiance, Selected Poems of Emanuel Xavier, and Love(ly) Child. He is also editor of Me No Habla With Acento: Contemporary Latino Poetry, Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry and Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry.
Dorothea Lasky is the author of seven books of poetry and prose, including The Shining and the forthcoming essay collection, MEMORY.
Home recording pioneer Linda Smith released several collections of delicate, bewitching solo music on cassette in the 80s and 90s, recently reissued by Captured Tracks on vinyl for the first time. ‘Nothing Else Matters,’ originally released in ’95, captures the tension between daily life and creativity. Her album ‘I So Liked Spring’ sets the poetry of Charlotte Mew to music, resulting in unpredictable yet melodic songs — songs that continue to resonate with new listeners nearly 30 years later.

Corvino @ Leather History Archives, Chicago
2024-03-28 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Leather Archives and Museum, 6418 N Greenview Ave, Chicago, IL, 60626, United States
Bonds and Boundaries author Dale Corvino will be reading in Chicago at the Leather Archives & Museum.
Details will follow.

Dave Gaddy at Sacred Source Conference
2024-03-28 - 2024-03-31 | The Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel, 903 Dulaney Valley Rd, Towson, MD, 21204, 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.

Dale Corvino in Indianapolis
2024-03-27 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Dream Palace Books, 111 E 16th St STE 101, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, United States
Bonds and Boundaries author Dale Corvino will be reading in Indianapolis at Dream Palace Books.
Details will follow.

Alan Lessik in Dublin, Ireland
2024-03-27 18:15 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Alan Lessik in Galway, Ireland
2024-03-27 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | 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 Belfast
2024-03-23 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Saints+Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival
2024-03-22 - 2024-03-24 | Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130, 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 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.
Rebel publisher Sven Davisson and TLOHC co-curator Tom Cardamone will be available for pitch sessions Friday 2:45-5:00. Booking in advance required.
Many Rebel authors will be in attendance participating in readings and panel discussions.
Rebel Satori is again proud to publish the 2024 short fiction and poetry anthologies. Congratulations to the winners and runners-up!

Alan Lessik in Liverpool
2024-03-20 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | 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.

Alan Lessik Reading, Birmingham, UK
2024-03-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | The Warehouse, Allison Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night Shine, will be reading at the Warehouse in Birmingham.

Dale Corvino in Seattle
2024-03-14 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, United States
Third Place Books is pleased to welcome Dale Corvino and for a reading of Bonds and Boundaries, Corvino’s new collection of short stories. This event is free and open to the public.
Update 3/12/24: Cesar Padilla, originally scheduled to join Corvino in discussing his work editing I Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear, is no longer able to attend. We’re sorry to miss Padilla’s visit to our store.
For important updates, registration is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
Having trouble accessing Eventbrite? Click here.

Alan Lessik Reading in Brighton, UK
2024-03-14 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | The Queery Bookstore, 46 George Street, Brighton, United Kingdom
Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night Shine, will be reading at the Queery Bookstore in Brighton.

Alan Lessik Reading in Bristol UK
2024-03-13 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Bristol Zen Doo, 91-93 Gloucester Road, Bristol, United Kingdom
Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night Shine, will be reading at the Bristol Zen Dojo.

OUTspoken: The Publishing Triangle’s Reading Series, March Edition (in person & live-streaming)
2024-03-13 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Bureau of General Services Queer Division, 208 West 13th Street, Room 210, New York, NY, 10011, United States
The Publishing Triangle presents its monthly OUTspoken Reading Series as host Rob Byrnes welcomes Mary Burns, Wo Chan, Stephen Greco, Cheryl Head, Bill Konigsberg, Tim Stobierski, Kathleen Warnock, and Jerry L. Wheeler.
Join us as in-person or watch the live-stream (see below) to hear from some of queer literature’s most dynamic established and up-and-coming voices.

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 on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
youtube.com/@bgsqd

Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a 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 on Venmo @bgsqd

Written Work: Poetry, Labor, and the Global City (NY Public Library)
2024-03-13 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10016, 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 Camonghe 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 explores the way poetry embodies work, using our multicultural city’s rich labor history as the backdrop. Pioneering home recording artist Linda Smith will close out the event with a special musical performance.
This event will take place in person and online.
This World Literature Festival event is co-presented with Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a multicultural and multi-arts institution supporting rising poets, actors, filmmakers and musicians across New York City.
To join the event in person | Please register for an In-Person Ticket. Doors will open 45 minutes before the program begins. For in-person events, we generally overbook to ensure a full house. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment; we will do our best to accommodate everyone. Booked seats that have not been claimed will be released shortly before start time, and seats may become available then. A standby line will form 30 minutes before the program.
To join the event online | Please register for an Online Ticket. A livestream of this event will be available on this NYPL event page. To receive an email reminder shortly in advance of the event, please be sure to register! If you encounter any issues, please join us on NYPL’s YouTube channel.
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The New York Public Library’s World Literature Festival celebrates books and writers from around the world and reflects the languages spoken in our communities. Discover what our patrons are reading in different languages, resources the Library offers, free events, book recommendations, and more.

Alan Lessik in London, UK
2024-03-11 19:55 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | London Zen Group, 486 Caledonian Road, London, United Kingdom
Alan Lessik, author of Make the Dark Night Shine, will be reading at the North London Zen Dojo. Advance sign-up requested.

Dale Corvino in San Francisco
2024-03-05 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Fabulosa Books, 489 Castro St., San Francisco, CA, United States
Bonds and Boundaries author Dale Corvino will be reading in San Francisco at Fabulosa Books.
Details will follow.

Alan Lessik - NY Zen Shobo-ji
2023-11-19 13:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | New York Zendo Shobo-ji, 223 East 67th Street, New York, NY, 10065, United States
Alan Lessik will read from his new release Make the Dark Night Shine: A Zen Novel at New York Zendo Shobo-ji.

Alan Lessik Reading - New York
2023-11-15 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | The Better Men Distilling Co, 161 River Ave, Patchogue, New York, NY, United States
Alan Lessik will read from his new release Make the Dark Night Shine: A Zen Novel at The Better Men Distilling Co.
