Meet The Author: Exploring LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fiction
Monday, Nov 17 / 7pm
Seattle Central Public Library
1000 4th Ave
Microsoft Auditorium
Join us on November 17 at the Seattle Public Library’s Central Branch for Guardians of the Gaylaxy, with readings and a Q&A from five Washington State writers who boldly explore star systems and fantasy realms while spotlighting LGBTQ main characters and relationships.
This will be an out-and-proud and out-of-this-world evening of readings by local...
Meet The Author: Exploring LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fiction
Monday, Nov 17 / 7pm
Seattle Central Public Library
1000 4th Ave
Microsoft Auditorium
Join us on November 17 at the Seattle Public Library’s Central Branch for Guardians of the Gaylaxy, with readings and a Q&A from five Washington State writers who boldly explore star systems and fantasy realms while spotlighting LGBTQ main characters and relationships.
This will be an out-and-proud and out-of-this-world evening of readings by local writers Astrid Amara, Ginn Hale, Laylah Hunter, Langley Hyde, and Nicole Kimberling. From Lambda Literary-winning fantasies to rollicking steampunk stories to racy space romps, each author takes the reader on an exciting, imaginative journey.
This event is presented by Gay City and co-hosted by the Seattle Public Library, and Gay Romance Northwest.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Astrid Amara is the author of the Lambda Literary nominated fantasy The Archers Heart, and the new fantasy novel set during the Crimean War, The Devil’s Lancer.
Ginn Hale is a Lambda Literary nominee and Spectrum Award winner for her fantasy/steampunk novel Wicked Gentlemen, and author of the 1,000 page epic Rifter and the new novel Champion of the Scarlet Wolf.
Laylah Hunter’s first novel, the fantasy Gabriel’s City, releases November 2014 and is the author of short fiction, including Safe Harbor.
Langley Hyde is a Clarion Writer’s Workshop graduate whose first steampunk fantasy novel Highfell Grimoires was released spring 2014, and is nominated for a 2014 Rainbow Award.
Nicole Kimberling is the winner of the Lambda Literary award for her speculative fiction novel Turnskin and founder and editor of the LGBTQ speculative fiction press Blind Eye Books.
