Lambda’s at AWP23!
Author: LeKesha Lewis
March 2, 2023
We are back outside! After some time away, Lambda Literary will be live and in-person at AWP23 in Seattle March 8th-12th. Stop by our booth in the Bookfair for Lambda merch, author signings, and new copies of Emerge. Then join us at the LGBTQ+ Reception, and find our staff on panels and readings throughout the week. Find all this and more in the details below.
THURSDAY, MARCH 9TH
LL at the Book Fair
Booth 908 [view map of the floor]
9am-5pm PT
Featured Author Signings:
Patricia Grayhall – Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine from 12pm-1pm
Edgar Gomez – High-Risk Homosexual from 3pm-4pm
Panel: The Future of Queer Publishing
Queer art has always been at the forefront of cultural movements, pushing boundaries and expanding our ideas of what art and industry can look like. What does queer literature look like today across the publishing industry, and what are our hopes, dreams, and plans for its future? Join the publishing professionals who are revolutionizing queer literature for an in-depth discussion on the expansive possibilities of queer publishing.
Rooms 343-344, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
10:35-11:50am PT
Off-site Samiya Bashir reading with Nightboat Books
Rendezvous Theatre, 2322 2nd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121
9:00 – 11:00pm PT
FRIDAY, MARCH 10TH
LL at the Book Fair
Booth 908 [view map of the floor]
9am-5pm PT
Featured Author Signings:
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, PhD – Big Girl from 2pm-3pm
LGBTQ+ Reception
This is an LGBTQ+ meet and greet hosted by Lambda Literary. Come say hi!
Grand Ballroom B, Second Floor, Pike Street Tower, Sheraton Grand Seattle
6-7:30pm PT
SATURDAY, MARCH 11TH
LL at the Book Fair
Booth 908 [view map of the floor]
9am-5pm PT
Featured Author Signing:
Jeanne Thornton – Summer Fun from 3pm-4pm
Off-site Lambda Literary Brunch Reading at Stella.
Join us for a celebration of LGBTQIA+ writers with readings by Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellows, including poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction in the spirit of a drag brunch. Hosted by Lambda Literary with special guest hosts. Limited capacity. Registration sold out.
Fireside Room at Stella. 900 Madison St, Seattle WA 98104
11am-1:30pm PT
Panel: Pedagogy Goes Pop: Creating Equitable Poetry Workshops through Popular Culture
The pop-culture image of the poet is still stuck in the Beatnik 1950s, and those new to poetry still perceive the art form as pretentious. In response, four diverse, practicing poet-educators discuss fresh approaches to the use of popular culture in teaching poetry to high school and undergraduate students. These practices democratize and reinvent writing classrooms as loci of possibility and permission through the engagement of timely works of television, film, music, and even internet memes.
343-344, Summit Building, Seattle Convention Center, Level 3
3:20-4:45pm PT
