OutWrite DC LGBTQ Literary Festival

OutWrite DC LGBTQ Literary Festival Washington, D.C.’s annual, free LGBTQ literary festival. is 8/5-8/7, 2022 🏳️‍🌈📚📝
http://www.outwritedc.org/ http://linktr.ee/outwritedc

🥗 Need a meal? Are you a member of the Le***an, Gay, Bi, Trans, Q***r + Community? We got youCheck out our menu for this...
08/05/2025

🥗 Need a meal? Are you a member of the Le***an, Gay, Bi, Trans, Q***r + Community? We got you

Check out our menu for this week! Thanks to our weekly deliveries from Food Rescue, .dc The DC Center offers free meals to our community, helping reduce food waste and feed those in need! 💚

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08/18/2023

Thank you to everyone who made OutWrite 2023 possible! We are so grateful. If you want to check out recordings of all the events, visit The DC Center's YouTube channel The DC Center

Check out what the news has to say about OutWrite 2023! We are featured in Metro Weekly, Washington Blade, Washington Ci...
08/11/2023

Check out what the news has to say about OutWrite 2023! We are featured in Metro Weekly, Washington Blade, Washington City Paper, Urban Bohemian, and Tagg Magazine!

AND OUTWRITE STARTS TONIGHT, GET EXCITED!

!! OutWrite 2023 is officially one week away! Join our keynote speaker Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for a brief reading from...
08/04/2023

!! OutWrite 2023 is officially one week away!

Join our keynote speaker Mecca Jamilah Sullivan for a brief reading from Big Girl and a moderated discussion with 2023 OutWrite chair Emily Holland.

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is the author of Big Girl, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection and a best books pick from Time, Essence, Vulture, Ms., Goodreads, Booklist, Library Reads, and SheReads.com. Her previous books are The Poetics of Difference: Q***r Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora (University of Illinois Press, 2021), winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association, and the short story collection, Blue Talk and Love (2015), winner of the Judith Markowitz Award for Fiction from Lambda Literary. She is an associate professor of English at Georgetown University and lives in Washington, DC.

Register at https://thedccenter.org/outwrite-2023-festival-schedule/

A Q***r Love letter led by Rosario Santiago!
08/03/2023

A Q***r Love letter led by Rosario Santiago!

Ekphrasis Fantastic led by Brandon Blue!
08/03/2023

Ekphrasis Fantastic led by Brandon Blue!

Q***ring the Publishing Industrial ComplexLed by Steve Bellin-Oka (he/him), Allison Blevins (she/her), Dustin Brookshire...
08/01/2023

Q***ring the Publishing Industrial Complex

Led by Steve Bellin-Oka (he/him), Allison Blevins (she/her), Dustin Brookshire (he/him), Caridad Moro-Gronlier (she/her)

What is the responsibility of q***r (LGBTQIA+) editors in publishing? In a roundtable discussion, panelists will draw on their experiences as both writers and editors to highlight the hurdles faced by q***r and other marginalized writers, provide concrete tips on how to navigate publishing, and discuss the future of publishing.

Q***r Stories: Writing Our Way Into BelongingLed by Neema Avashia (she/her), Jennifer Savran-Kelly (she/they), Jeffrey D...
08/01/2023

Q***r Stories: Writing Our Way Into Belonging

Led by Neema Avashia (she/her), Jennifer Savran-Kelly (she/they), Jeffrey Dale Lofton (he/him), Curtis Chin (he/him)

The q***r community has gained a measure of acceptance over time and also been dealt crushing blows in today’s sharply divided world. Q***r literature allows us to tell our truths, our stories that show who we were, are, and hope to become. Three authentic and sometimes uneasily honest q***r voices have given us Endpapers, Another Appalachia, Red Clay Suzie, and Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant—books that show our power is more in how we receive ourselves and than in how the world receives us. Join us for an empowering conversation about what it means to live fulfilled lives as our true selves in a world that, even today, does not fully embrace or understand us.

Existence as Resistance: Trans Poets on Nationwide Anti-TransnessLed by KB Brookins (they/them), Cyree Jarelle Johnson (...
08/01/2023

Existence as Resistance: Trans Poets on Nationwide Anti-Transness

Led by KB Brookins (they/them), Cyree Jarelle Johnson (he/him), Sofia Fey (they/them), K. Iver (they/them), Jzl Jmz (she/her)

As of May 2023, 49 out of 50 states in the U.S. have attempted to pass anti-trans legislation. Trans people are overtly in the mouths and minds of people who mean them harm on street corners, in congress, and within literary pages every day. What does one make of this? What might poetry offer this harsh reality? During this event, trans poets will read their works of poetry, prose, and hybrid-genre lit to display trans narratives by trans people and to disrupt falsehoods about our personhood. Ideally, audiences will walk away ready to support these writers and support trans people in their city, state, country, and beyond.

At the Gay Bar: LGBTQ+ Bars in History and as Community CentersGregg Shapiro (he/him), Rick Karlin (he/him), Eboné Bell ...
07/31/2023

At the Gay Bar: LGBTQ+ Bars in History and as Community Centers

Gregg Shapiro (he/him), Rick Karlin (he/him), Eboné Bell (she/her), Jo McDaniel (she/her), Coach (they/them), Krista Burton (she/her)

The bars have a long history in the LGBTQ+ community. In the early days, they not only served as places to socialize, but also as community centers where organizers and activists gathered. This panel will celebrate the role of bars in our lives, and also discuss what the future holds as q***r neighborhoods evolve. Panelists include Rick Karlin, the co-author of the 2022 book Last Call Chicago: A History of 1001 LGBTQ-Friendly Taverns, Haunts & Hangouts (Rattling Good Yarns Press); Eboné Bell, Editor-in-Chief of Tagg Magazine; Jo McDaniel and Coach, co-owners of As You Are, and Krista Burton, author of Moby D**e: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Le***an Bars in America.

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