Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Volume 1 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194695201X ISBN 13: 9781946952011

Publisher: Qommunity LLC, 2017

Synopsis

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Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Vol. 1 includes previously unpublished and reprinted work by the following writers: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

About this title

About the Author

ABOUT THE EDITOR 

Sage Kalmus is Cofounder/Co-CEO of Qommunity Media LLC and Senior Editor of Qommunicate Publishing. He's taught writing magical realism in Lesley University's MFA Creative Writing program, was an editorial intern for Dzanc Books, and a three-time reader for Salamander Magazine's summer fiction contest. Sage's fiction has appeared in Whisperings Magazine, Carnival Online Literary Journal, and Rose Red Review and in the upcoming Darkhouse Books anthology, Sanctuary. His nonfiction has appeared in The Writer and "The Hampshire Gazette". He wrote and directed three plays in San Francisco, including a one-man show in which he started. He earned a MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and a BS in Broadcasting and Film from Boston University. He lives in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts with his loving husband--fellow Qommunity Media cofounder/co-CEO & Qommunicate Publishing Associate Editor, Curry Kalmus--and their four-legged family. 

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

 

Qommunicate Publishing is the imprint of Qommunity Media LLC, a queer media company devoted to giving voice to the margins. Qommunicate's other publications to date include Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Volume 1, Queer Families: A LGBTQ+ True Stories Anthology and Queer Around the World: A LGBTQ+ True Stories Anthology. Upcoming publications from Qommunicate include Geek Out!: Queer Pop Lit, Art & Ideas; Queer Gaymes: LGBTQ+ Puzzles & Games; Pan's Ex: Queer Sex Poetry; and More Queer Families: A LGBTQ+ True Stories Anthology. Qommunity Media LLC is also the creator of Qommunity: The Queer Social Network (queerqommunity.com & iOS/Android)--a one-stop media source, marketplace, and social network for LGBTQ+ and allies, where diversity is celebrated & individuality finds sanctuary.

From the Back Cover

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

Qommunity LLC is creator of Qommunity: The Queer Social Network (qommunity.org & iOS/Android)--a one-stop media source, marketplace, and social network for LGBTQ+ and allies, where diversity is celebrated & individuality finds sanctuary. Hashtag Queer: LGBTQ+ Creative Anthology, Vol. 1 is the premiere publication of Qommunity's publishing imprint, Qommunicate Media.

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Contents

Editor's Note | Sage Kalmus

Fiction | Short Stories & Flash Fiction

1957 |DC Diamondopolous
A Memory of His Rising | Adam McOmber
First/Then | Sam Heyman
Studies Show Cigarettes Kill | Paige Zubel
How Jac Twist'd Turned You | Emma Munro
All and Nothing At All | Richard Natale
And Then This | Calvin Gimpelevich
A True Host Leaves Nothing to Chance | Thomas Kearnes
The Time You Give and the Time You Take | Joe Baumann
The Livorno Story | Bill Gaythwaite


Nonfiction | Essays & Memoirs

To An Ex-Lover, after A Natural History of the Senses |
Miah Jeffra
Chasing Home | Laura Gullveig
A Lenten Examen of Past and Future Incarnations of Myself |Carolyn Agee
The Flip Side of Coming Out | Eva M. Schlesinger
The Year of Eating Banana Splits | Carla Sameth
A Worn Sole | Darlene O'Dell


Poetry | Poems

Her Name Was Nancy | Lylanne Musselman
Straight A's | Lylanne Musselman
I Wanted to Be a Beatle | Lylanne Musselman
400,000 | Kenneth Pobo
Grace by the Piano | Kenneth Pobo
Not Human | Kimberly Ann Priest
L'chi/L'cha: on being queer and jewish | Sacha Mankins
If my father were retired to rural France, | T. Stores
If my father were a humanist capitalist, | T. Stores
Fagtastic Damage | Zac Cahill
A Small Matter of Fellatio Emphatics | Colin James
Pedantry & The Three Legged | Colin James
Freaky| Kenneth Pobo
This City | Serene Vannoy
Cruising Christopher Street | Gabriella M. Belfiglio
The Dyke With No Name Doesn't Really Think About Sex |
Judith Barrington
emotional invoice | mud howard
Letters from Outside the Binary | L.C.
Brows | Emenual Wolff
Twinning | Serene Vannoy
Poetics of Nature | Gabriella M. Belfiglio
Clavicula | Kristin Laurel
I Like Dick | Maddie Godfrey
The World in Reverse| Jean Mikhail
silver makes everything disappear | Scott-Patrick Mitchell
celestial | oakley flanagan
inadvertent angels | oakley flanagan
Presence and Absence| Laury A. Egan
The Spirit's in It | Kristin Laurel


Scripts | Plays & Screenplays

His Name Was Doug | Richard Ballon
Jared - from the play "Unstuck", Monologue 1 | Evan Tsitsias
The Girl Who Dressed as a Bear | Alex Clarke
Jared - from the play "Unstuck", Monologue 2 | Evan Tsitsias
Two Slaves in a Cage | Thomas Klocke
A Life Enriching Community | Philip Middleton Williams

Contributors
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About the Publisher

Edition details

• Publisher: Qommunity LLC
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194695201X
• ISBN 13: 9781946952011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Kalmus Sage