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I Wrote a Trans Memoir Without Even Knowing It (at First)

I Wrote a Trans Memoir Without Even Knowing It (at First)

Oliver Radclyffe on the Long and Winding Road to Publication Day

By Oliver Radclyffe | September 25, 2024

Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Navid Sinaki on Finding His Voice as a Young, Queer Iranian Immigrant

By Navid Sinaki | August 13, 2024

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

“I have become a text that revises themself, that will revise themself every day, every day until the last day.”

By Bee Sacks | May 13, 2024

Why I Write Gay: Eric Schlich Channels His Bisexuality Through Queer Protagonists

Why I Write Gay: Eric Schlich Channels His Bisexuality Through Queer Protagonists

“I’m done thinking of that as cowardly. Because what it really was, was empowering.”

By Eric Schlich | January 18, 2024

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

"It’s both mystical and humiliating how your novel can know things before you yourself know them."

By James Frankie Thomas | September 13, 2023

Manuel Betancourt on Navigating Queerness in English and Spanish

Manuel Betancourt on Navigating Queerness in English and Spanish

gay, I found myself caught between the two languages.”">“In grasping for gay, I found myself caught between the two languages.”

By Manuel Betancourt | June 12, 2023

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Marlon James: One Day I Will Write About My Mother

Marlon James: One Day I Will Write About My Mother

"My mother, who spent most of her life building work and family, never built a room of her own."

By Marlon James | February 4, 2019

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

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Gabrielle Bellot Considers How a Writer's Work is Measured Against Her Death

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 13, 2018

Neel Patel on Writing Past the Stereotypes of Indian Americans

Neel Patel on Writing Past the Stereotypes of Indian Americans

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By Mira Jacob | July 19, 2018

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Stray City

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By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 22, 2018

Nonfiction As Queer Aesthetic: Discovering Myself, Discovering My Art

Nonfiction As Queer Aesthetic: Discovering Myself, Discovering My Art

Dave Madden on Recognizing the Possibility of Life and Narrative

By Dave Madden | January 30, 2018

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