q-lit festival

Hello again!

I am going to be a part of Q-Lit’s festival coming up soon at the end of the month. If you don’t know, Q-Lit is an org celebrating regional queer writing, and for the festival they are coming to inner-city Naarm for the first time.

The whole program can be found here - there’s stacks going on. The event I’m a part of is in the Afternoon of Stories. Our panel is ‘Write or Wrong: Living Through Capitalism” and will be a discussion about writing and money and the realities of all that. The panel is with Mama Alto and Chenai Mupotsa-Russell.

I’m working a lot at the moment and also have gone back to uni, which does not leave much time or energy for writing. I feel like maybe this is the tightest time of my life money-wise, despite all the work, so maybe this panel is well-timed lol.

You can get a ticket for the event for $0 if you need to, $15, or $30 if you can afford it.

After the stuff with the SLV started to happen, Q-Lit were the first people to reach out to me and offer me work. I think they’re doing really great things so it’d be cool if you supported them.

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Also, Alexander Te Pohe’s short story What Are False Stars to a God?, which appears in Avast!, the collection of trans fiction Michael Earp and I edited, was shortlisted for an Aurealis award :>

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Trans Book Festival was a few months ago and is now on youtube. here is the panel with me, Seth Malacari, Nevo Zisin and Michael Earp, talkin about YA, chaired by Liz Sutherland :) You can watch the whole festival on TGV’s youtube channel.

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