Join poets Beth Gylys and Dustin Brookshire for, yes, you guessed it, a villanelle workshop.
Mimosas & Mocktails: A Poetry Open Mic
Event Description: Reading Queer kicks off a new year of programming with Mimosas & Mocktails: A Poetry Open Mic featuring Caridad Moro-Gronlier. Join us from 1-2:30pm (EST) on Sunday, January 9, 2022. Those wishing to read in the open mic will need to sign up on Eventbrite. By registering for…
Reading Queer Presents “Anything Else Under Heaven: A Writing Workshop” with poet Mia S. Willis
RSVP HERE Description: Poetry frequently offers glimpses of Black and queer joy in times of societal turmoil and uncertainty. As Black creators become increasingly essential to local and national movements for change, participants in this workshop will encounter the bop poetry form created by Afaa Michael Weaver at the Cave Canem…
Wild & Precious Life Series
Dear Friends, Last week, “Zoom Bombers” commandeered the reading, the link was changed and all queer hell broke loose. We apologize for the disruption and this week we’re ready to meet any challenges. If you were not able to attend or access the reading last week, join RQ for the next Wild &…
RQ & Dustin Brookshire Present the Wild & Precious Life Series
RQ & Dustin Brookshire Present the Wild & Precious Life Series
COVID-19 may have radically altered our world, but the pandemic hasn’t altered our commitment to the community. Although we can’t hang out in person, we’ve partnered with Dustin Brookshire to create a virtual reading series to soothe our souls in this time of chaos.
RQ Presents: QueerWrite Your Subversion with Eve Eurydice
Hailing from Lesbos, Greece, Eurydice is a multimedia artist, podcaster, journalist, educator, single Mom, & the author of 3 books & numerous stories & articles. She is currently at work on a memoir titled The Lesbian that tells the story of Lesbian women–a genealogy that spans from Sappho to her great grandmother to her grandmother to her mother to her–& of our Lesbian language; on a nonfiction book titled Speak Sex to Power; & on a novel retelling the story of Eurydice in her own words.
Breaking Binaries: A Writers Workshop led by Clayre Benzadón & Caitlin Andrews
Join Reading Queer, Clayre Benzadón & Caitlin Andrews for “Breaking Binaries”, a writing workshop that celebrates creative possibilities. RSVP here.
Reading Queer Presents “Writing in Queer Spaces” with Freesia McKee
DATE: MARCH 24TH, 2019 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PMLOCATION: HISTORY MIAMI MUSEUM @ 101 W FLAGLER ST, MIAMI, FL 33130. MAP hereCOST: ALWAYS FREE. Donations appreciated. Donate here Queer individuals have always had to build their own havens and teach their own history, in remedying a society where division…
Reading Queer Presents Maggie Thrash @ The Miami Book Fair 2018
Maggie Thrash is the author of the graphic memoir Honor Girl as well as the Strange Truth books. She is a former staff writer for Rookie. Following her acclaimed Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash revisits a period of teenage depression in Lost Soul, Be at Peace (Candlewick), a graphic memoir that is at once thoughtful, honest, and marked…
Justin Phillip Reed Wins National Book Award 2018!
In 2015, Reading Queer invited Justin Phillip Reed to co-headline the 2015 RQ Literary Festival before he published his first book. Last night, Justin won the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry! Reading Queer is proud to have worked with the beautiful writer, and to have witnessed his poetry blossom.…