Boston Book Festival 2018

From memoir to plays, novels to essays, today’s queer writers are making their stamp on the written word across genres. But queer authors face additional challenges in bringing their works to market, from questions of identity and “writing in one’s own lane,” finding receptive or hard-to-reach audiences, tackling tropes, and the weight of creating Happily Ever Afters (or not) for a community inured to rejection, violence, and stereotype. Moderator Kelly J. Ford (Cottonmouths) will lead a discussion with Sara Farizan (Here to Stay), Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (The Fact of a Body), Milo Todd (The Falcon of Doves), and David Valdes Greenwood (The Mermaid Hour) on the complications, expectations, and jubilations of living, writing, and publishing while queer.