Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Volume 1

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Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Vol. 1 includes previously unpublished and reprinted work by the following writers: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, 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.

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Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Volume 1

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, 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.

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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, 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

ISBN-13: 9781946952011
Publisher: Qommunity LLC
Publication date: 05/15/2017
Series: Hashtag Queer: Lgbtq+ Creative Anthology , #1
Pages: 238
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Sage Kalmus is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Qommunity LLC. He teaches writing in Lesley University's Creative Writing MFA program. His fiction has appeared in Whisperings Magazine, Carnival Online Literary Journal, and Rose Red Review. His essays and articles have appeared in The Writer, The Hampshire Gazette, and Livestrong.com. He wrote and directed three plays in San Francisco. He worked as an editorial intern for Dzanc Books and is a three-time contest reader for Salamander Magazine's summer fiction contents. Since 2004 he's been a part-time freelance writer, editor, and ghostwriter. He holds a BS in Film & Broadcasting from Boston University and a MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. He lives in western Massachusetts with his loving husband and their four-legged family.

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

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