5/22/2007

Wonderful news!

RedBone Press author Ernest Hardy has earned a 2007 PEN/Beyond Margins Award for Blood Beats: Vol. 1! Go here to see more on this year's PEN literary awards. And go here to congratulate him/post a comment. We are so proud!

5/15/2007

DC Black Pride activity...

Celebrate Voices Rising during DC Black Pride! Contributors Chistopher Adams, Warren Adams, Tony Brown, G. Winston James, Curu Necos-Bloice and Michelle Sewell will read at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 26, 2007 at Lambda Rising Bookstore, 1625 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009. 202-462-6969.



Another related event: Fire & Ink at DC Black Pride! Join authors reading from their new work: Laurinda Brown (Walk Like a Man), Michael-Christopher (From Top to Bottom), Doug Cooper-Spencer (This Place of Men), Wyatt Evans (Nothing Can Tear Us Apart), Clarence J. Fluker, Tracee Ford, Dorothy Harris and Tonya Parker (Spirited); Lee Hayes (A Deeper Blue); G. Winston James (The Damaged Good, Voices Rising, Spirited); Michelle Sewell (Growing Up Girl); and Tim'm T. West (Flirting). This event will be at the DC Pride host hotel in the Potomac room, lower level, from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 26, 2007.



I'll see you all there!

Ernest Hardy reads at Lammy celebration!

It's that award time of year: the Lammys. Our man Ernest Hardy is up for one in the Arts & Culture category. As part of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Lammy reading series, he'll be reading from Blood Beats: Vol. 1 at Skylight Books in Los Angeles this Friday, May 18, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. Also reading are Bettina Aptheker, author of Intimate Politics (Seal Press); Victor Bumbalo, author of Questa (Broadway Publishing); Hilary Carlip, author of Queen of the Oddballs (Harper Paperbacks); Jennifer Doyle, author of Sex Objects (University of Minnesota Press); Mike Szymanski and Nocole Kristal, authors of The Bisexual's Guide to the Universe (Alyson Publications); and Stuart Timmons, co-author of Gay L.A. (Basic Books).

Skylight Books is at 1818 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90027; phone is 323-660-1175.

The event is free and open to the public. Go, bring friends, and yes, buy the book!