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Happy Pride Month! Stephanie and Lauren chat about recent and current reads, publishing trends, the challenges of a writer's life, summer and fall workshops, and more!

[Non-fiction, Essay, Memoir]
Nicole Shawan Junior was bred in the bass-heavy beat and scratch of Brooklyn, where the cool of beautiful inner-city life barely survived cripplings caused by crack cocaine. She is a black, Queer and poverty-born counter-storyteller, felon, and former police prosecutor. Stephanie and Lauren chat with Nicole about her recent writing, non-fiction workshops, and forthcoming memoir.

[Fiction, Horror, Short Stories]
Kivel Carson is an emerging writer concerned with social justice, Black liberation, and representation through art and storytelling, particularly in the genres of literary fiction and Afrofuturism. In this episode, she chats about "Night Has No Eyes," a sharp zombie story in Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing.

[Fiction, Steampunk, Short Stories]
La Toya Hankins returns to Lez Talk Books Radio to dish about her new steampunk story, featured in Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing.
You can find more of her short works in Lez Talk: A Collection of Black Lesbian Short Fiction and at JMS Books. LaToya also penned the novels SBF Seeking… and K-RHO: The Sweet Taste of Sisterhood.

[Short Stories, Creative Non-fiction, Journalism]
Almah has been published in various anthologies, including the revised edition of does your mama know?: Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories. Her journalism has garnered a National Ethnic Media Award from New America Media and recognition on Utne Reader’s “Great Writing” blog. In this episode, Almah chats about her latest short story, found in Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing.

[Short Stories, Novel, Creative Writing]
M Shelly Conner uses her experiences as a dapperqueer Black woman to produce multi-genre works that examine intersections of race, gender, and sexuality. Her collection of writing spans multiple media and a range of publications, including "Black From the Future: A Collection of Speculative Fiction."
As a whole, Shelly's writing makes queer interventions in a tradition of storytelling about Black life and families from Jim Crow South to south side Chicago.