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SUMMARY:Shh! I’m listening… Second Edition
DESCRIPTION:New York Queer Zine Fair and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division _______ (adverb) present the second edition of\nShh! I’m listening…\n  \nSaturday\, December 5\, 2020 at 2 PM EST\, Virtually Everywhere.\n\n  \nThis virtual ______ (noun) brings together 3 queer zine makers to ______ (verb) their ______ (noun). Expect some ______ (adjective) visuals and ______ (adjective) text that will be ______ (adjective)\, ______ (adjective) and maybe even a little ______ (adjective).\n\n  \n*This is an actual event. Our three fabulous zine makers/readers are JB Brager\, Tyler Hampton\, and Anthony Malone. You are invited to fill out the above Mad Lib and send it to us at instagram.com/nyqzf.\n\n  \nSuggested donation to benefit NYQZF and the Bureau: $5\nAll are welcome to join! Donation is not required.\n\n  \nBut registering on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event!\nClick here to register\n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Office Hours Poetry Showcase Reading
DESCRIPTION:  \nOffice Hours Poetry Fellows from the Fall 2020 cohort will read the innovative poetry they’ve developed over the course of the workshop. Our free workshop provides post-MFA poets access to continued support for manuscript-development and everyday writing. We welcome all poets\, especially people of color\, LGBTQ+\, and those who are femme-identified. Our name derives from our side hustle. Many of us are freelance\, adjunct instructors\, who continue to thrive in the margins of academia.\n\n  \nFeaturing: Madeleine Mori \, Carrie Hohmann Campbell\, Mary Block\, Laura Cresté\, Emily Hockaday\, Marty Correia\, Paco Márquez\, Sarah M. Sala\, Holly Mitchell\, and Linda Harris Dolan.\n\n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division\n\nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation.\n\nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link for the event.\n\nClick here to register\n\n\n  \nMadeleine Mori is a white and Japanese-American poet originally from San Francisco. She earned a bachelor’s degree in winemaking from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and an MFA from New York University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Salt Hill\, Sixth Finch\, The Cincinnati Review\, jubilat\, DIAGRAM\, and the American Poetry Review\, among others. She is the Poetry Editor at Pigeon Pages and lives in Brooklyn.\n\n  \nMary Block lives and writes in her hometown of Miami\, Florida. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New Poets 2020\, RHINO\, Nimrod Journal\, and Sonora Review\, among other publications. Her work can be found online at SWWIM Every Day\, Rattle\, Aquifer\, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program\, a 2018 Best of the Net finalist\, a 2012 finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation\, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. More at www.maryblock.net\n\n\n  \nCarrie Hohmann Campbell is the author of the chapbooks Drawn to Extinction (Finishing Line Press) and incongruent: someday (dancing girl press). She has degrees from Allegheny College and New York University. She lives in northwestern Pennsylvania where she precariously balances teaching creative writing at Edinboro University\, homesteading\, and writing\, and can be found on the web at www.carriehohmanncampbell.com.\n\n\n  \nLaura Cresté is the author of You Should Feel Bad\, which was selected for a 2019 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and a BA from Bennington College. The winner of Breakwater Review’s 2016 Peseroff Prize\, her poems have appeared in journals including No Tokens\, Tinderbox\, and Bodega\, and she has received support from the Community of Writers.\n\n\n  \nEmily Hockaday is the author of five chapbooks\, including the forthcoming Beach Vocabulary from Red Bird Chaps. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals\, and along with Jackie Sherbow she coedited the anthology Terror at the Crossroads. She can be found on the web at www.emilyhockaday.com and @E_Hockaday.\n\n\n  \nMarty Correia writes memoir and poetry in the East Village where she has lived with conceptual artist Kate Conroy since 1996. A graduate of NYU’s creative writing MFA program\, Marty is the author of the novel Pigeon Mothers\, and her next project is the genderqueer memoir\, Nobody Here Knows Me. www.martycorreia.com @martycorreia\n\n\n  \nPaco Márquez is a poet based out of Manhattan\, author of the chapbook Portraits in G Minor (Folded Word Press\, 2017). His poems haven been published by Fence\, Apogee\, Live Mag! and Huizache\, among others. Originally from León\, México\, Paco has spent most of his life in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. pacomarquez.net\n\n\n  \nSarah M. Sala is the author of Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books 2020). The founding director of Office Hours Poetry Workshop\, and assistant poetry editor for the Bellevue Literary Review\, she teaches expository writing at New York University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in BOMB\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Southampton Review\, and The Brooklyn Rail. www.sarahsala.com\n\n\n  \nHolly Mitchell is a poet from Kentucky\, now living in New York. Holly received an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University and has poems in Paperbag\, Juked\, and Baltimore Review\, among other journals.\n\n\n  \nLinda Harris Dolan is a poet\, editor\, and educator in Brooklyn. She’s a teaching artist through ArtWorks at Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital\, and she holds an M.A. in Literature and an M.F.A in Poetry from NYU\, where she was a Starworks Creative Writing Fellow. Her work appears in Barrow Street\, The Brooklyn Review\, Cordella\, and No\, Dear\, among others. lindaharrisdolan.com.\n\n\n\n 
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SUMMARY:Patrick Earl Ryan in conversation with Jewelle Gomez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special virtual event – New Orleans native PATRICK EARL RYAN and writer\, icon\, and activist JEWELLE GOMEZ discuss writing\, queerness\, and Ryan’s award-winning debut short story collection\, IF WE WERE ELECTRIC\, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction\, the first selected by Roxane Gay as the new editor of the prestigious series.\n \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation \nRegistration is required\n  \nClick here to register\n  \nPurchase Ryan’s If We Were Electric and/or Gomez’s The Gilda Stories from the Bureau!\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us!\n  \nPraise for IF WE WERE ELECTRIC: \n“IF WE WERE ELECTRIC\, the debut short story collection from New Orleans’s native Patrick Earl Ryan is\, indeed\, fiercely electric. These twelve startling fictions have been crafted by a writer with an assured and absolutely original voice and a remarkable understanding of how place is as much a compelling character in a good story as the people who populate it. There are stories here about unrequited love and youthful yearning\, the complexities of desire between men\, the beginnings and ends of relationships\, deaths both inevitable and untimely\, the bitter ache of loneliness\, the quiet horrors that unexpectedly befall us\, and the magic of the ordinary world. With this outstanding collection\, Patrick Earl Ryan makes his mark on Southern literature and how!” – Roxane Gay\n  \n“Infused with all the mystique and mystery that New Orleans is known for comes this enchanting\, hypnotic debut story collection from Patrick Earl Ryan… The stories feature outliers and miscreants trapped in situations that often feel claustrophobic but are impossible to ignore. Ryan is a true natural at weaving textured language and complex characterization into plots that are serpentine and saturated with emotional complexity. This quality is exceptional for a debut author and a definite determinant for a gilded literary career ahead. Addictively gorgeous and mesmerizing\, Ryan’s collection of twelve literary gems are meant to be savored\, re-read\, and reflected upon as readers await his next creation.” – Jim Piechota\, the Bay Area Reporter\n  \n  \nPATRICK EARL RYAN was born and raised in New Orleans\, Louisiana. He is the author of If We Were Electric\, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in the Ontario Review\, Pleiades\, Best New American Voices\, Men on Men: Best New Gay Fiction for the Millennium\, and the James White Review. He was the founder and editor in chief of the LGBTQ literary journal Lodestar Quarterly.\n  \nJEWELLE GOMEZ\, playwright\, novelist\, poet\, and cultural worker\, is the author of eight books\, including the first Black Lesbian vampyre novel\, The Gilda Stories. In print more than 25 years\, the novel will soon be a television mini-series. Jewelle’s fiction\, poetry\, and essays have appeared in over 100 anthologies. She is playwright-in-residence at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco.\n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:QUEER WRITERS\, SPEAKING ACROSS BORDERS
DESCRIPTION:  \nSix authors from four time zones share their writing\, and talk about how queerness operates in their work and how this has changed over time. \n  \nJoin Kiran Bhat\, Tom Cho\, Farzana Doctor\, Jee Leong Koh\, Angela Meyer\, and Sarah Sala for a group reading and a conversation moderated by William Johnson\, Deputy Director of Lambda Literary. \n  \nSuggested donation of $5 to benefit the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division \nAll are welcome to join\, with or without a donation \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required in order to receive the Zoom link on the day of the event. \nClick here to register.\n  \nThe Bureau’s online store features books by several of the participating authors. See links beneath each person’s biography below for books that you can purchase from our store. \nThank you for supporting the Bureau by purchasing books from us! \n  \nKiran Bhat is an Indian-American traveller\, polyglot\, and author. He is primarily known as author of the English-language story cycle\, we of the forsaken world… (Iguana Books\, 2020)\, but he has penned four other books in four different languages\, and he has had his writing published at The Brooklyn Rail\, The Colorado Review\, The Florida Review\, Eclectica\, Waxwing\, The Free State Review\, Cha\, The Mascara Literary Review\, The Chakkar\, and several other places. You can currently find him nested in Melbourne\, but he calls Mumbai his eternal home. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \n  \nTom Cho is the author of the collection of fictions Look Who’s Morphing\, originally published in Australia and later released by Arsenal Pulp Press for North America. Tom’s fiction pieces have appeared in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and The Best Australian Stories series\, among many others. His current fiction project is a novel that mashes up fiction\, pop culture\, philosophy of religion\, and much more besides. tomcho.com \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n  \nFarzana Doctor is the Toronto-based author of four novels: Stealing Nasreen\, Six Metres of Pavement and Seven\, which has just been named a Chapters-Indigo Best Book of 2020. The Globe and Mail listed it as a Best Independent Read to Pick Up This Fall\, and Ms. Magazine called it “fully feminist and ambitiously bold”. She is also an activist\, part-time psychotherapist and amateur tarot card reader. farzanadoctor.com\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \n  \nWilliam Johnson is the Deputy Director of Lambda Literary\, an organization dedicated to promoting LGBTQ literature. \n  \n  \nKoh Jee Leong is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet)\, named a Best Book of the Year by UK’s Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the US. He has published four other books of poems\, a volume of essays\, and a collection of zuihitsu. His latest book is a work of hybrid fiction called Snow at 5 PM: Translations of an insignificant Japanese poet. He has been translated into Japanese\, Chinese\, Vietnamese\, Malay\, Russian\, and Latvian. Originally from Singapore\, Koh lives in New York City\, where he heads the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound and runs the Asian indie press Gaudy Boy. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n  \n  \nAngela Meyer is an Australian author and editor. Her debut novel\, A Superior Spectre (Ventura Press)\, was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award\, the MUD Literary Prize\, an Australian Book Industry Award\, the Readings Prize for New Australian Writing and a Saltire Literary Society Award (Scotland). She is also the author of a novella\, Joan Smokes\, which won the inaugural Mslexia Novella Award (UK)\, and a book of flash fiction\, Captives. She works as a freelance editor and consultant. \n  \n  \nSarah M. Sala is the author of Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books 2020). The founding director of Office Hours Poetry Workshop\, and co-poetry editor for The Bellevue Literary Review\, she teaches expository writing at New York University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in BOMB\, The Southampton Review\, and The Brooklyn Rail. www.sarahsala.com \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n 
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SUMMARY:TELL 68: Hair
DESCRIPTION:  \nTELL is an evening of story telling from the mouths and minds of queers in NYC hosted by Drae Campbell at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division since February 2014. \nHair is the theme of the 68th TELL\, on Saturday\, December 19\, 2020\, 6 to 7:30 PM (EST). Featuring lea robinson\, Merrie Cherry\, and Fernando Vieira. \nThe event will take place on Zoom. \nThis is a free event\, but you must register on the Eventbrite page in advance in order to receive the Zoom meeting link on the day of the event. \nDonations for the performers and the Bureau are much appreciated!\nMake a donation when you register on the Eventbrite page. \nClick here to register\n  \nThe Bureau will send out a link to the Zoom meeting to all who have registered on the day of the event. \nPhotograph by Grace Chu\nDrae Campbell is a writer\, actor\, director\, story teller\, dancer\, and nightlife emcee. Drae has been featured on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and on stages all over NYC. Drae’s directing work has appeared in Iceland\, NYC\, Budapest and in the San Francisco Fringe Festival. The short film Drae wrote and starred in with Rebecca Drysdale\, YOU MOVE ME won the Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short at OUTFEST 2010 and has been shown in festivals globally. Drae won the grand prize at the first annual San Miguel De Allende Storytelling Festival in Mexico. She once reigned as Miss LEZ and also got dubbed “the next lezzie comedian on the block” by AfterEllen.com for her comedic stylings on the interwebs. Campbell hosts and curates a monthly queer storytelling show called TELL at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division. Check her out online!  www.draecampbell.com. \n  \nMerrie Cherry reigns over the Brooklyn drag community with a sweet hand. She hosts\, MCs\, and plans events in the popping community and beyond. The creator of the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards she was set a new meaning of what is means to be a drag queen. With no plans to stop we can expect so much more from this cherry. Stay tuned! \n  \nlea robinson is a queer/transgender/butch/gender non-confirming POC identified actor and writer. lea recently moved to Oakland from NYC\, where they were active in both the theater world and film & tv. Lea is currently SAG-AFTRA and AEA and has representation in both L.A. (manager: MadCatch Entertainment) and in San Francisco (MDT). A lover of cats\, scary movies and video games. \n  \nFernando Vieira is an Ecuadorian born\, New York-based writer\, director\, and performer. Most of his works document the effect of heteronormativity and misogyny on the lives of women and queer individuals. In 2016\, he debuted as a playwright with the monologue “Me voy porque puedo\,” (I’m leaving because I can)\, which he also directed. His latest play “Goodbye\, Little George\,” explores the subject of gender identity and homophobia. He recently debuted a documented performance titled “Unlabeled”\, where he discusses life as a queer non-conforming person. Vieira has been part of artistic cohorts at institutions such as NYFA\, Creative Capital\, and Leslie-Lohman Museum. \n  \n 
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