Brittle Paper will be at the 2019 Lambda Literary Festival in Los Angeles, on Friday, September 27. We will be featured in an event focused both on our curatorial work in African literature and on the work of queer writers and the evolution of representations of queerness in Nigerian literature. Currently in its third year, the Lambda Literary Festival is an initiative of Lambda Literary, the leading LGBTQI+ organisation in literature. The 2019 festival, themed “All the Feelings: A Celebration of Queer Emotion,” will last for a week, from September 21 to September 28. All of its 40+ events, featuring 1,500+ writers and readers, are free and open to the public.
The Brittle Paper event, convened by the Lamda Award-nominated American journalist and former senior editor at Out magazine Anne-christine d’Adesky, will begin with d’Adesky interviewing our founder Ainehi Edoro, Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The second panel will see d’Adesky and Ainehi in conversation with the novelist and curator Unoma Azuah, author of Edible Bones and editor of Blessed Body: The Secret Lives of Nigerian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender; Arinze Ifeakandu, finalist for the Caine Prize 2017 and Editor-in-Chief of 14, Nigeria’s first queer art collective; and Itiola Jones, Book Editor at Indolent Books, Editor at Voicemail Poems, and winner of the Brittle Paper Award for Poetry 2018. The second conversation will, in many ways, extend our 2017 anniversary conversation themed “Un-Silencing Queer Nigeria: The Language of Emotional Truth.”
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Friday, September 27, 2019
Time: 6 P.M.
Venue: Plummer Park, West Hollwyood, Los Angeles, California, USA
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