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SUMMARY:Celebrating Paperback Publications: Where There Was Fire and The Sea Elephants (in person and live-streaming)
DESCRIPTION:Where There Was Fire and The Sea Elephants\, novels by John Manuel Arias and Shastri Akella\, share more than their publisher (Flatiron Books) and the DNA of being debut novels released in 2023. Set in international geographies (Costa Rica and India respectively)\, both stories look at the restorative power of community and queer resistance in the face of oppressive power. \nJoin the authors as they celebrate the release of the paperbacks editions of their debut novels this fall. They will read from their debuts\, engage in conversations\, about work old and new\, and about being queer writers of color navigating the American publishing industry. \nJohn Manuel Arias is a queer\, Costa Rican American poet and writer\, and the National Bestselling author of Where There Was Fire\, published in the US and the UK and a Good Morning America Buzz Pick and Barnes & Noble Discover Pick. A Canto Mundo fellow & an alumnus of the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop\, his prose and poetry have been published in The Kenyon Review\, PANK\, The Rumpus\, and Akashic Books. He has lived in Washington D.C.\, Brooklyn New York\, and in San José\, Costa Rica with his grandmother and four ghosts. \nShastri Akella is a queer\, neurodivergent migrant of color who comes from a working-class background. His writing is/will be in Best American Short Fiction 2024\, Guernica\, Fairy Tale Review\, CRAFT\, Masters Review\, World Literature Review and elsewhere. His stories became finalists for the Narrative Fiction Prize twice and he won the 2024 BLR Goldenberg Prize for Fiction\, a 2023 Pushcart Prize \,and a 2022 Fiction Fellowship at the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD. in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Michigan State University. The Sea Elephants\, his debut novel\, published in the US (Flatiron\nBooks) and India (Penguin)\, was named a most-anticipated debut by Good Morning America\, Electric Lit\, Book Riot\, and LGBTQ Reads\, among others. \n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration is not required. Seating is first come\, first served. \n\nAlso live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel: \nyoutube.com/@bgsqd \nSuggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10. \nAll are welcome to attend\, with or without a donation. \n\nWe 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
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LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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