Representing Ourselves: Queer Short Stories (in person & live-streaming)
October 12 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join Jarrod Campbell and Matthew Lansburgh for a reading from their story collections and a discussion about the importance of representing queerness in fiction, why this need for honest, varied representation has brought us here and where these bold portrayals will take us.
This event will take place in person at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, room 210 of The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th St., NYC, 10011.
Registration is not required. Seating is first come, first served.
Also live-streaming on the Bureau’s YouTube channel:
Suggested donation to benefit the Bureau: $10.
All are welcome to attend, with or without a donation.
We will pass a bag for donations at the start of the event, but we can also take credit card donations at the register or on Venmo @BGSQD
Jarrod Campbell is a writer living in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. His fictions, essays, reviews and poetry have appeared in Heavy Feather Review, Northwest Review, Modern Literature, Wicked Gay Ways, and Boner World (Berlin). His collection of short stories, The Reason I’m Here, (June 2023, Stalking Horse Press), was listed as an anticipated June LGBTQIA+ read by Lambda Literary.
Matthew Lansburgh‘s collection of linked stories, Outside Is the Ocean, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 30th Annual Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction. His fiction has appeared in journals such as One Story, VQR, New England Review, Glimmer Train, Ecotone, Epoch, Alaska Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, StoryQuarterly, Columbia Journal, Guernica, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and has been shortlisted in the Best American Short Stories series (in 2018 & 2022) and the Pushcart Prize series (in 2017).
