Please join us at the Port Veritas open mic at the Equality Community Center to celebrate the launch of Queering Friendship: Stories + Poetry from Multi-Generational LGBTQ+ Writers. The event is co-sponsored by Port Veritas, the Equality Community Center, MWPA, and the Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum.
Queering Friendship arises out of the ten-week Community Word writing workshop hosted by Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance and the Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum in Fall 2022 and facilitated by Jan Bindas- Tenney. A multi-generational group of nine LGBTQ+ writers came together to read, write, and build community.
Authors will read excerpts of their work and will be joined by open mic readers.
This event is free, and masks are required.
To access this event online, please use this link during the event time.
Participants in the 2022 Community Word workshop for LGBTQ+ Community Members.
In this chapbook, nine luminous, Maine-based queer and trans writers present essays, stories, and poems that queer friendship. Here you’ll find revelations of relationships, of the self with others, adolescent selves, self-love, survival, and the way we have been saved, strained, by our friends: the ocean, a cat, a girl, a cousin, a stranger. These are gorgeous pieces of writing about loss, about being found, about longing.
