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SUMMARY:Summer Sweat Series: Queer Erotica Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:BGSQD and Hive Mind Books invite writers of all levels and backgrounds to join author Christian Pan in a Queer Erotica Writing Workshop! \nRSVP TO THIS EVENT \n\n\n\n\nDo you have fantasies\, desires\, an over-active imagination? Have you ever wanted to put some of that into a short story? Do you like reading erotica\, and ever thought\, “Yeah\, I could do that!” Do you feel like your particular kind of YUM is not showing up in the LGBTQIA+ lit out there? \nThen grab pen & paper (or a laptop)\, come to the Bureau\, and let´s sweat it out onto the page. \nOver the course of 5 in-person sessions\, this workshop will provide prompts\, tools\, readings\, and discussion of how each of us can bring your erotic story to life. We´ll talk character\, dialogue\, place\, and ways to activate the senses. We´ll read excerpts from other people´s work\, and welcome you to submit excerpts to be workshopped by the class. We will try to get you as close as possible to finishing a draft of that story by the end of the workshop. Participants will also be invited to read an excerpt from their work to invited guests at the Bureau at the end. \nSound like fun? Cost is only $15 per session\, or $50 for all 5 if you pay in advance. This fee will go to support the bookstore as well as to pay Christian for his time. \nClass size is capped at 15. \n*** \nChristian Pan is the author of over 20 books of erotic fiction which often center bisexual characters\, identity\, and experience. His writing has been published by Cleis Press\, Incision Press\, Folly\, Rebel Satori Press\, the Indie Authors Collective\, and the Erotica Consortium; he´s co-authored numerous titles with Jenna Citrus and Olivia Lawless; and his books have received recognition from the Passionate Plume Awards\, the Golden Pigtails\, and The International Impact Book Awards. He is the editor and publisher of The Best Bi Erotica of the Year anthology series\, whose 3rd volume will appear on Bi Visibility Day this September 2026; was Patreon’s A Club Captain for the Queer Erotic Content Creators Club from 2022-25; and hosts the Pulse Session for the Podcast All the Filthy Details. He lives in New York City.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/summer-sweat-series-queer-erotica-writing-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Bureau of General Services–Queer Division\, 208 West 13th Street\, Room 210\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:VERONICA PLACE Virtual Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us on ZOOM for the launch of Harron Walker’s new novella VERONICA PLACE \nRSVP FOR THE EVENT LINK \n\n\n\n\nWidely hailed across Brooklyn and Queens as one of THE books coming out on Aug. 17\, Veronica Place concerns a young woman named Anne Instagram as she moves into an apartment complex for divorcées like herself\, where every woman’s past is more mysterious than the last… Will Anne fit in? Will they pelt her with rocks? And who is this mysterious man named Man who drives his indestructible car with such gender-appropriate rage? Could he have narrative import? You’ll have to RSVP to find out… \nCosponsored by Hive Mind Books and the Bureau\, join Harron Walker\, Nicholas Russell\, Joss Barton\, and Morgan M Page for a virtual night of reading and conversation. \nA Zoom link will be sent out to all attendees prior to the event. \n*** \nHarron Walker is the author of AGGREGATED DISCONTENT: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman\, (Random House\, 2025)\, and she contributed to MOTHA’s Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects (The University of Chicago Press\, 2024) and Grace Bonney’s Collective Wisdom (Artisan\, 2021). \nA freelance writer in Brooklyn\, her work has appeared in New York\, GQ\, Esquire\, W\, Interview\, Out\, CULTURED\, Document Journal\, and other print and digital publications. She has also worked as a sensitivity editor on trans news coverage for GQ\, Harvard Public Health\, and elsewhere. \nNicholas Russell is a writer and editor from Las Vegas. His work has been featured in The Believer\, McSweeney’s\, The Yale Review\, Reverse Shot\,The Point\, The Baffler\, The Nation\, and Dirt\, among other publications. He’s attended Short Fiction workshops at VQR and Tin House\, as well as the Critics Academy for the New York Film Festival and the Press Inclusion Initiative at the Sundance Film Festival. He’s also received support from MacDowell and the Nes Artist Residency. \nNicholas is a contributing writer at Defector (formerly at Gawker 2.0)\, managing editor at Still Alive Magazine\, and a bookseller at The Writer’s Block. His debut novel Observer is out on September 15\, 2026. \nJoss Barton is a poet\, writer\, and journalist documenting transgender and queer love and life in Saint Louis\, Missouri. Her spoken word poetry blends femme fever dreams over the soundtrack of american nightmares and queer and transgender liberation. \nMorgan M Page is a Canadian writer\, historian\, artist\, and activist currently based in London\, England. Her work has been published in The Globe and Mail\, Buzzfeed\, Montréal Review of Books\, and numerous anthologies. She runs the trans history podcast One From the Vaults.
URL:https://www.bgsqd.com/event/veronica-place-virtual-book-launch/
LOCATION:Online event\, New York\, NY\, United States
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