Dine Out for AQLF tonight!

Dine Out for AQLF will be held tonight at Wahoo Grill, 1042 West College Ave. in Decatur, from 5 to 10 p.m. Ten percent (10%) of the evening's food sales go directly to AQLF. Guests must mention they are dining for AQLF in order to be included.

Wahoo has been rated as one of the Top 10 restaurants in the city by Atlanta Magazine, Creative Loafing, Access Atlanta and many more. The menu has an emphasis on seafood, but there is also pasta, chicken, burgers, salads and plenty of options for vegetarians.

Members of the AQLF board will also be dining that evening at 7 p.m., so drop by and say hello and find out more about this year's festival.

Line-Up for Stonewall Reading, June 27

Readings will take place on Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Atlanta-Fulton County Central Library in Downtown. See the post below for more details.

First Section (10 a.m. - noon)

Franklin Abbott (host)
Patrique Vosges
Bob Strain
Sincere
Guerin Asante
Larry Corse
Lakara Foster
Alice Teeter
Deb/ra Hiers

Second Section (noon - 2 p.m.)

Collin Kelley (host)
Megan Volpert
Theresa Davis
Yolo Akili
Lisa Allender
Elliott Mackle
Kristyl Dawn Tift
Dustin Brookshire
Antron-Rechaud

Third Section (2 - 4:30 p.m.)

Reginald Jackson (host)
Malika
Donovan Brown
Karen G
Jessica Hand
Stanley Fong
Robin Kemp
Cleo Creech
KenJ Martin
Queen Sheba

Stonewall Reading, June 27

The Atlanta Queer Literary Festival and the Special Collections Department of the Atlanta-Fulton County Library team up to present a day of readings to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which ushered in the gay rights movement in America. Readings will take place on Saturday, June 27, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Central Library in Downtown.

Performers include: Malika, Patrique Vosges, Larry Corse, Alice Teeter, Elliott Mackle, Robin Kemp, Cleo Creech, Karen G, Dustin Brookshire, Bob Strain, Antron Rechaud, Stanley Fong, Lakara Foster, Megan Volpert, Collin Kelley, Guerin Asante, Queen Sheba, Lisa Allender, Deb/ra Hiers, Jessica Hand, Theresa Davis, Yolo Akili, KenJ Martin, Reginald Jackson, Sincere, Kristyl Dawn Tift and Franklin Abbott.

The library is located at 1 Margaret Mitchell Square in Downtown Atlanta. We strongly encourage visitors to take Marta to the Peachtree Center station. There is an entrance/exit directly across from the library's front door.

Dine Out for AQLF at Wahoo Grill, June 29

Dine Out for AQLF will be held Monday, June 29, at Wahoo Grill, 1042 West College Ave. in Decatur, from 5 to 10 p.m.  Ten percent (10%) of the evening's food sales go directly to AQLF. Guests must mention they are dining for AQLF in order to be included. 

Wahoo has been rated as one of the Top 10 restaurants in the city by Atlanta Magazine, Creative Loafing, Access Atlanta and many more. The menu has an emphasis on seafood, but there is also pasta, chicken, burgers, salads and plenty of options for vegetarians. 

Members of the AQLF board will also be dining that evening at 7 p.m., so drop by and say hello and find out more about this year's festival. 

AQLF Partners with MondoHomo!

AQLF is joining forces with the MondoHomo Festival for a special evening of poetry and spoken word at Eyedrum Gallery, 290 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr., on Thursday, May 21. The evening will include:

Mondo Politico Art Opening 

7 p.m. to 1 a.m., $7, all ages!
20+ artists, mixed media curated by Donnie Reider + Kathy King

Then Atlanta Queer Literary Festival (AQLF) co-presents Homo Spoken Sex & Politics! 

Hosted by Ché Johnson & DJ E with emcee Seria Mills, and Jed Drummond, Finnegan,Theresa Davis, Stacie Boshma, Royce Hall, Karen G., Kathleen Delaney, Collin Kelley (co-director of AQLF), and Sincere

Music by Gretchen Phillips and Athens Boy's Choir 

**OPENING NIGHT SCREENING**
Stories From the Road - A Film About Following PJ Harvey
Directed by Kyle Keyser

For more information about this event and to see the full MondoHomo lineup, visit www.mondohomo.com. AQLF will have a table at the event for you to sign up for our e-mail list, get info about the upcoming festival, find out about our upcoming fundraiser dinner (details here soon) and purchase a limited-edition broadside by National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty (see previous post below). 

Signed, limited-edition Mark Doty broadsides

We have a small number of limited-edition broadsides featuring Mark Doty's poem "Immanence" for sale. The autographed copies are $20 and unsigned are $15. Doty is a National Book Award winner and was just nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for his collection of new and selected poems, Fire to Fire. You may purchase a copy via PayPal using the link in the right sidebar. The cost includes shipping and handling

All proceeds from the sale of the broadsides will support the 2009 AQLF.

AQLF 2009 Authors & More!

We are pleased to announce three of our very special guests for the 2009 Atlanta Queer Literary Festival. Our keynote speakers will be poet and activist Staceyann Chin and novelist Manil Suri, along with special slam poet/musical guests Good Asian Drivers. More featured artists will be announced in the coming months so check back often.

We're also pleased to announce Anthony Garcia-Copian as the winner of the 2009 Larry Corse Playwriting Competition for his play, The Book of Revolutions. The play will be produced during AQLF and the author will be in attendance. More about Garcia-Copian (pictured at left) coming soon. 

We'd also like to welcome and thank our new partners and sponsors, including the Decatur Book Festival, Georgia Center for the Book, DeKalb County Public Library and YouthPride. These new partners join our returning sponsors Outwrite Books & Coffee House, Charis Books & More, Emory University, Atlanta-Fulton County Public Library System and First Existentialist Congregation of Atlanta to present the 2009 festival. Links for all our sponsors and partners can be find in the right sidebar.

Our partnership with the Decatur Book Festival, which draws a crowd of 70,000-plus every Labor Day weekend, is especially exciting as we will be programing a series of GLBT readings during this spectacular literary weekend. An announcement of those special guests is forthcoming.

Please also note that we have slightly changed our sponsorship and donation levels in the right-hand sidebar. We know economic times are tough, but please consider making a tax-deductible donation to AQLF via PayPal.