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.
Reading Queer Awarded $70,000 Knight Arts Challenge Grant Miami
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awards Reading Queer a 2016 Knight Arts Challenge Miami (KACM) grant, a community-wide initiative funding the best ideas for the arts in South Florida. This is the second KACM grant awarded to Reading Queer since 2013. “The KACM grant will strengthen Reading…
Donate to Reading Queer on Give Miami Day
SAVE THE DATE – Donate to Reading Queer on Give Miami Day Just over one year ago, I launched the first Reading Queer Literary Festival at the Betsy Hotel – South Beach. With the support of our sponsors and individual donors like you, Reading Queer inaugurated the first queer-centric literary festival…
RQ Writing Workshop with 2012 OBIE Lifetime Achievement Award winning playwright, songwriter, translator, editor and educator Caridad Svich
FUNDarte in collaboration with Reading Queer present an intimate writing workshop with 2012 OBIE Lifetime Achievement Award winning playwright, songwriter, translator, editor and educator Caridad Svich. “This space of writing is a space of tensions and fissures and tectonic plates shifting across fields of time. Reach for the stars, but…
The Reading Queer Writing Academy presents “The Personal Is Political”
Your story matters! Join Reading Queer and Christine Morando for “THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL: TELLING YOUR STORIES AND MAKING THEM VISIBLE” at the Hôtel Gaythering-South Beach Saturday, February 21st from 2 – 5 pm. Morando will help participants appreciate their own life stories and introduce them to the stories of contemporary…
Reading Queer announces the Reading Queer Writing Academy 2014
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make…