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03.07 2016

Black into the Future: Alexis De Veaux in Minneapolis

Heads up, Minneapolis! The Loft Literary Center hosts "Black into the Future: An Evening with Alexis De Veaux" this Wed., March 9, 2016 at 7 p.m. Go here for more info. Books will be available at the event through Ancestry Books.
01.31 2016

Alexis De Veaux and Janet Mock at Tulane University Feb. 16, 2016

Join Alexis De Veaux and Janet Mock for "Conversations in Color" at Tulane University in New Orleans. De Veaux and Mock will discuss sexuality and identity in literature, from Yabo and Redefining Realness. Feb. 16, 2016, 6-8 p.m.; free, but ticket...
01.31 2016

"Blackbody Curve" by Samiya Bashir

New poem by Samiya Bashir posted at Poetry Daily last week, Jan. 27, 2016: "Blackbody Curve."
11.02 2015

Alexis De Veaux reads at Charis Books Nov. 12!

Join Lambda Literary Award-winner Alexis De Veaux and guest readers Mary Anne Adams, Kelley Alexander and Frances Wood for a reading from Yabo! Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Charis Books & More, 1189 Euclid Ave. NE, Atlanta, GA 30307. Book...
10.25 2015

Alexis De Veaux presents 2015 Wallace Bacon lecture Oct. 28, 2015

Alexis De Veaux delivers the 2015 Wallace Bacon lecture this Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015 at noon at Northwestern University's School of Communications. Her lecture, "Geographies of Difference: The Remix," is centered on an interactive reading of Yabo...
10.14 2015

Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene in Toronto Oct. 16-18, 2015

Check out Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene as part of Naked Hearts in Toronto this weekend. Sponsored by Glad Day Bookshop. Go here to see the complete schedule!
09.13 2015

Interview with Yvonne Fly in San Francisco Bay Times

If you're in the Bay Area, check the Sept. 3 issue of the San Francisco Bay Times. If not, you can read it here (flip to page 17).
09.13 2015

Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene in Lambda Literary!

Go see here!
07.22 2015

RedBone Press vending at OutWrite DC Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015

RedBone Press is pleased to be vending at this year's OutWrite LGBT Book Festival in Washington, DC. OutWrite is a celebration of LGBT Literature. The weekend is full of book readings, writing workshops, book discussions, poetry readings and more....
07.22 2015

Marvin K. White is So Soul San Francisco July 17-Aug. 9, 2015

So Soul San Francisco: Blackbirds Boogie & other gumbo grooves is a Black Art Salon that celebrates the extraordinary work of the late great queer poet and writer, Wayne Corbitt, arguably the most influential and prolific Black Gay artist to c...
07.22 2015

Yvonne Etaghene reading in Washington, DC on July 30

Makers Lab + ZAMI present Yvonne Fly Onakeme Etaghene, author of RedBone Press' latest, For Sizakele, for an evening of dynamic performance + conversation on Thursday, July 30, 2015. Etaghene will read from For Sizakele, and perform electric, sug...
07.22 2015

Yabo is at the top of Venus Thrash's list

Poet Venus Thrash wants her lesbian literature high-quality and engaging, complex and multifaceted... and Yabo's made the top of her list at velamag.com. Way to go, Alexis De Veaux!
07.22 2015

Ernest Hardy's latest Crave

Ernest Hardy reviews the black indy film series, "Tell It Like It Is," now running simultaneously in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, in the July 16, 2015 Crave Online. On July 2, Ernest critiqued Elizabeth Alexander's poem, "When," recently republ...
06.05 2015

Library of Congress LGBT Literary Celebration on June 18, 2015

The Library of Congress celebrates LGBT literature, featuring LGBT publishers Sibling Rivalry Press, Manic D Press and RedBone Press. A panel discussion moderated by William Johnson, editor of LambdaLiterary.org, is at 2 p.m. June 18, 2015 at the ...
06.01 2015

Alexis De Veaux, Lammy Award winner!

Congratulations to RedBone Press author Alexis De Veaux, winner of the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction for Yabo! We are so, so proud!
06.01 2015

Congratulations to Lammy finalist Alexis De Veaux!

So proud of RedBone Press author Alexis De Veaux, a Lambda Literary Award finalist for Yabo in the Lesbian Fiction category. Awards will be announced tonight!
04.08 2015

RedBone Press at AWP in Minneapolis, April 9-11, 2015

If you'll be at AWP this week, visit us at table 851 at the Book Fair. And come to the "Queer/Feminist/of Color Presses on the Imperative to Publish" panel, with RedBone Press, Korima Press, Evelyn Street Press and Third Woman Press on Friday, Apr...
03.20 2015

Alexis De Veaux to lecture at SUNY-Fredonia March 31

As part of SUNY-Fredonia's celebration of Women's Herstory Month, Alexis De Veaux is giving the Gender & Social Change lecture, "Intersectionality and the Future Everyday," Tuesday, March 31, 2-15 at 7 p.m. at SUNY-Fredonia. More details here ...
03.04 2015

Yabo is a Lammy finalist!

Yabo by Alexis De Veaux is a Lambda Literary Award finalist in the Lesbian Fiction category! We're very excited about this news! Congratulations to all the Lammy finalists, listed here.
02.27 2015

Mapping the Afro-Imaginative Symposium at UT-Austin, March 5-6, 2015

RedBone Press authors Alexis De Veaux and Ana Lara are speaking at the upcoming symposium, "Mapping the Afro-Imaginative: Black Queer Diaspora Studies & the Work of the Imagination," at University of Texas at Austin next week, March 5-6, 2015....