ALL PRIDE, NO PREJUDICE! A Literary LGBTQ+ Celebration

Featuring

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  Natalie Adler

  Natalie Adler

  Natalie Adler’s debut novel, Waiting on a Friend, is forthcoming from Hogarth in May 2026. She has an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University. She is an alumna of The Center for Fiction / Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellowship and an editor at Lux magazine.

  
  

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  Samantha Allen

  Samantha Allen

  Samantha Allen is the author of Patricia Wants to Cuddle and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States. A GLAAD Award-winning journalist, her writing has been published by the New York Times, Rolling Stone, CNN.com, and more.

  
  

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  Nicholas Boggs

  Nicholas Boggs

  Nicholas Boggs is the New York Times bestselling author of Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of the iconic figure in over three decades. He also co-edited a new edition of Baldwin’s collaboration with French artist Yoran Cazac, Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (2018). He is the recipient of a 2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant and fellowships from the Leon Levy Center for Biography, the Scholars-in-Residence program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Gilder Lehrman Center and Beinecke Library at Yale, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. Most recently he was the 2024-2025 John Hope Franklin Fellow at the National Humanities Center. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., he received his BA from Yale and his PhD from Columbia, both in English, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing from American University. He now resides in New York City.

  
  

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  Julián Delgado Lopera

  Julián Delgado Lopera

  Julián Delgado Lopera is the author of the New York Times acclaimed novel Fiebre Tropical (Feminist Press 2020), the winner of the 2021 Ferro Grumley Award and a 2021 Lambda Literary award, and a finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and the 2021 Aspen Literary Prize. Julián is also the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! (Aunt Lute 2017), an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and a 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award.

  Julián’s work has been supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Public Library, Baldwin for the Arts, Hawthornden Foundation, Black Mountain Institute, Creative Work Fund, Hedgebrook, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Headlands Center for The Arts, Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Granta, Teen Vogue, the Kenyon Review, McSweeney’s, the Rumpus, the White Review, LALT, Four Way Review, Broadly, and TimeOut Mag, to name a few. He is the former executive director of RADAR Productions and one of the founders of Drag Queen Story Hour. Julián has been curating Latinx history projects for over 10 years in partnerships with places such as the GLBT Historical Society, SF Public Library, El/la Para Translatinas, Galería de la Raza and Brava Theatre. Born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia, Julián currently resides in Brooklyn where he is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Contemporary Latine Literature at CUNY. His second novel Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You is forthcoming in 2026 from Liveright Publishing, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company.

  
  

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  John Glynn

  John Glynn

  John Glynn is the Editorial Director of Hanover Square Press, an imprint of HarperCollins. His nonfiction debut Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer was an Indie Next pick, an Oprah, The Magazine “Best LGBTQ Book of 2019,” and a Cosmopolitan Best Book of 2019, among other accolades. His writing has appeared in People, Oprah Daily, The Millions and The Daily Beast.”

  
  

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  Jessica Handler

  Jessica Handler

  Jessica Handler’s novel The Magnetic Girl was awarded the 2020 Southern Book Prize. She is the author of the memoir, Invisible Sisters, and the craft guide, Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss. Her writing has appeared on NPR, in Tin House, The Bitter Southerner, Brevity, CreativeNonfiction, the Washington Post, Oldster, and elsewhere. She served as the Ferrol Sams, Jr. Distinguished Writer in Residence at Mercer University, a visiting faculty member at West Virginia Wesleyan College’s low-residency MFA, and a member of the faculty at the Etowah Valley MFA at Reinhardt College. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, author Mickey Dubrow. More at www.jessicahandler.com.

  
  

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  Clarence A. Haynes

  Clarence A. Haynes

  Clarence A. Haynes is the author of The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery. He is also the coauthor of Omar Epps’s Afrofuturist series Nubia: The Awakening and The Reckoning and the nonfiction work The Legacy of Jim Crow. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

  
  

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  Samuel D. Hunter

  Samuel D. Hunter

  Samuel D. Hunter’s other plays include Little Bear Ridge Road, A Case for the Existence of God, The Whale (Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, GLAAD Media Award, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play), A Bright New Boise (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), Greater Clements, Lewiston/Clarkston, The Few, A Great Wilderness, Rest, Pocatello, The Healing, and The Harvest. He has been awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, a Hull-Warriner Award, and a Drama Desk Award, among others. He holds degrees in playwriting from NYU, the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Juilliard. He holds an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Idaho.

  
  

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  Roya Marsh

  Roya Marsh

  Roya Marsh is a Bronx-born poet, performer, educator, and activist. She is the author of dayliGht (2020), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, and SAVINGS TIME (2025). Her work centers Queer liberation and insists on white people’s responsibility in dismantling white supremacy. She is co-founder of the Bronx Poet Laureate program and leads creative writing workshops with NYC DOE, PEN America Emerging Voices, Lambda Literary’s LGBTQ Writers in Schools, and Poets & Writers. Roya is a recipient of the Lotos Foundation Prize for Poetry and the 2024 BRIO Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts.

  Roya and her work have been featured widely including, the Academy of American Poets, the Poetry Foundation, Poetry Magazine, GLAAD, Electric Literature, the Village Voice, Nylon Magazine, Huffington Post, the Root, Button Poetry, BAM, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The National Mall, The Apollo Theater, Joe’s Pub, Lexus Verses and Flow, On One with Angela Rye, BET and The BreakBeat Poets Vol 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket 2018).

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  Rasheed Newson

  Rasheed Newson

  Rasheed Newson is the author of the national bestseller My Government Means to Kill Me, which was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist for Gay Fiction and was named one of the “100 Notable Books of 2022” by the New York Times. He is also a television drama writer, producer, and showrunner. He codeveloped Bel-Air and worked on The Chi, Animal Kingdom, and Narcos, among other drama series. Newson is a 2025–26 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow. He currently lives with his husband and their two children in Pasadena.

  
  

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  Keith Ridgway

  Keith Ridgway

  Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His previous novels include A Shock (winner of the 2022 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction), Hawthorn & Child, and Animals. He has been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger, the O Henry award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His books have been acclaimed “ingeniously slippery” (Lucy Scholes, New York Times Book Review), “bleak, hilarious, chilling and hopeful” (Louie Conway, Vanity Fair), and “like Finnegans Wake, only readable” (John Self, London Times).

  
  

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  Paul Rudnick

  Paul Rudnick

  Paul Rudnick (he/him) is the author of What Is Wrong With You? and Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style. His plays have been produced on and off Broadway and include Jeffrey, I Hate Hamlet, Regrets Only, and The New Century. He is the author of eight books, and he’s a frequent contributor to the New Yorker; his writing has also appeared in Vogue, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and more. His screenplays include Addams Family Values, Coastal Elites, In & Out, Sister Act, and the film adaptation of Jeffrey. Find out more at PaulRudnick.com and follow him on X at PaulRudnickNY.

  
  

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  Auguste White

  Auguste White

  Auguste White is an Emmy winning & five time Emmy nominated comedian, writer, and director. She was recently named to the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. After three years as a supervising writer at Saturday Night Live, she joined Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and Sam Means’ latest collaboration with Tracy Morgan and Danielle Radcliffe: The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins on NBC. Auguste lives in Brooklyn, where she recently adopted two evil and violent cats, Alice and Sunday.

  
  

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  Celeste Yim

  Celeste Yim

  Celeste Yim is a TV writer from Toronto. They are a 2021 Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow a 2019 NYFA Canadian Women Artists’ Award recipient, and a Youngblood member at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Celeste holds a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.F.A. from NYU Tisch.

  
  

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