LIVE- A Celebration of Queer Voices: Corinne Manning, Carter Sickels, De'Shawn Charles Winslow, + Andrea Lawlor

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Join us for A Celebration of Queer Voices panel featuring Corinne Manning, Carter Sickels, De'Shawn Charles Winslow, and Andrea Lawlor as moderator. 

Andrea Lawlor teaches writing at Mount Holyoke College, edits fiction for Fence magazine, and has been awarded fellowships by Lambda Literary and Radar Labs. Their writing has appeared in various literary journals including Ploughshares, Mutha, the Millions, jubilat, the Brooklyn Rail, Faggot Dinosaur, and Encyclopedia, Vol. II. Their publications include a chapbook, Position Papers (Factory Hollow Press, 2016), and a novel, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, a 2018 finalist for the Lambda Literary and CLMP Firecracker Awards. Paul, originally published by Rescue Press in 2017, is out now from Vintage/Knopf in the US and Picador UK in the UK & Ireland.

Corinne Manning is a prose writer and literary organizer whose stories and essays have been published widely, including the anthologies Toward an Ethics of Activism and Shadow Map: An Anthology of Survivors of Sexual Assault. They have received grants and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Artist Trust, and the Hub City Writers Project. Corinne founded the James Franco Review, a project that sought to address implicit bias in the publishing industry. They live in Seattle.

Carter Sickels is the author of novel The Prettiest Star (Hub City Press 2020). He is also the author of the novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury 2012), an Oregon Book Award finalist and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. His essays and fiction have appeared a variety of publications, including Guernica, BuzzFeed, Bellevue Literary Review, and Green Mountains Review. Carter is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award, and earned fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.

De'Shawn Charles Winslow was born and raised in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. His novel, In West Mills, was the 2019 winner of the 2019 Center For Fiction First Novel Prize. He is a 2017 graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and holds a BFA in creative writing and an MA in English literature from Brooklyn College. He lives in New York.

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