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Overview
Hashtag Queer is a collection of short work in all literary genres (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, scripts) written by and/or about LGBTQ+ people and lives. It includes short stories, flash fiction, poems, essays, memoirs, plays, screenplays, and monologues by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, genderqueer, gender fluid, agender, non-binary, and straight. Many of the pieces are about different aspects of queerness and being queer, while others are about other aspects of life experienced through a queer lens.
Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Vol. 1 includes previously unpublished and reprinted work by the following writers:
* FICTION (short stories, flash fiction) by Joe Baumann, DC Diamondopolous, Bill Gaythwaite, Calvin Gimpelevich, Sam Heyman, Thomas Kearnes, Adam McOmber, Emma Munro, Richard Natale, and Paige Zubel
* CREATIVE NONFICTION (essays, memoirs) by Carolyn Agee, Laura Gullveig, Miah Jeffra, Darlene O?Dell, Carla Sameth, and Eva M. Schlesinger
* POETRY by Judith Barrington, Gabriella M. Belfiglio, L.C., Zac Cahill, Laury A. Egan, oakley flanagan, Mud Howard, Maddie Godfrey, Colin James, Kristin Laurel, Sacha Mankins, Jean Mikhail, Scott-Patrick Mitchell, Lylanne Musselman, Kenneth Pobo, Kimberly Ann Priest, T. Stores, Serene Vannoy, and Emenual Wolff
* SCRIPTS (plays, screenplays, monologues) by Richard Ballon, Alex Clarke, Thomas Klocke, Philip Middleton Williams, and Evan Tsitsias
Hashtag Queer was edited and is introduced by Sage Kalmus, MFA writing teacher and cofounder of Qommunity LLC, parent of Qommunity: The Queer Social Network & its publishing & production imprint Qommunicate Media.
Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Vol. 1 is the premiere edition of an annual publication of work found through an open call for submissions.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940154398418 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Qommunity LLC |
| Publication date: | 06/01/2017 |
| Sold by: | Smashwords |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Qommunity LLC is the parent company of Qommunity: The Queer Social Network (qommunity.org & iOS/Android)—a one-stop media source, marketplace, and social network for the LGBTQ+ community and supporters, where diversity is celebrated & individuality finds sanctuary. The publishing and broadcasting imprint of Qommunity is Qommunicate Media. The premiere publication of Qommunicate Media is "Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Vol. 1".
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note - vi
Fiction | Short Stories & Flash Fiction
1957 |DC Diamondopolous - 1
A Memory of His Rising | Adam McOmber - 11
First/Then | Sam Heyman - 25
Studies Show Cigarettes Kill | Paige Zubel - 53
How Jac Twist’d Turned You | Emma Munro - 107
All and Nothing At All | Richard Natale - 114
And Then This | Calvin Gimpelevich - 133
A True Host Leaves Nothing to Chance | Thomas Kearnes - 142
The Time You Give and the Time You Take | Joe Baumann - 188
The Livorno Story | Bill Gaythwaite - 207
Nonfiction | Essays & Memoirs
To An Ex-Lover, after A Natural History of the Senses | Miah Jeffra - 44
Chasing Home | Laura Gullveig - 78
A Lenten Examen of Past and Future Incarnations of Myself |Carolyn Agee - 111
The Flip Side of Coming Out | Eva M. Schlesinger - 136
The Year of Eating Banana Splits | Carla Sameth - 170
A Worn Sole | Darlene O’Dell - 226
Poetry | Poems
Her Name Was Nancy | Lylanne Musselman - 6
Straight A’s | Lylanne Musselman - 7
I Wanted to Be a Beatle | Lylanne Musselman - 8
400,000 | Kenneth Pobo - 9
Grace | the Piano | Kenneth Pobo - 10
Not Human | Kimberly Ann Priest - 24
L’chi/L’cha: on being queer and jewish | Sacha Mankins - 43
If my father were retired to rural France, | T. Stores - 48
If my father were a humanist capitalist, | T. Stores - 51
Fagtastic Damage | Zac Cahill - 65
A Small Matter of Fellatio Emphatics | Colin James - 66
Pedantry & The Three Legged | Colin James - 67
Freaky| Kenneth Pobo - 68
This City | Serene Vannoy - 93
Cruising Christopher Street | Gabriella M. Belfiglio - 94
The Dyke With No Name Doesn’t Really Think About Sex | Judith Barrington - 104
emotion invoice | Mud Howard - 105
Letters from Outside the Binary | L.C. - 110
Brows | Emenual Wolff - 113
Twinning | Serene Vannoy - 126
Poetics of Nature | Gabriella M. Belfiglio - 129
Clavicula | Kristin Laurel - 131
I Like Dick | Maddie Godfrey - 139
The World in Reverse| Jean Mikhail - 167
silver makes everything disappear | Scott-Patrick Mitchell - 184
celestial | oakley flanagan - 205
inadvertent angels | oakley flanagan - 206
Presence and Absence| Laury A. Egan - 221
The Spirit’s in It | Kristin Laurel - 229
Scripts | Plays, Screenplays & Monologues
His Name Was Doug | Richard Ballon - 4
Jared - from the play “Unstuck”, Monologue 1 | Evan Tsitsias - 63
The Girl Who Dressed as a Bear | Alex Clarke - 69
Jared - from the play “Unstuck”, Monologue 2 | Evan Tsitsias - 95
Two Slaves in a Cage | Thomas Klocke - 96
A Life Enriching Community | Philip Middleton William - 157
Contributors - 232
About the Editor - 242
About the Publisher - 242