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Friday October 11, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Foglifter—created by and for LGBTQ+ writers and readers—continues the San Francisco Bay Area’s tradition of groundbreaking queer and trans writing, with an emphasis on publishing those multi-marginalized (BIPOC, youth, elders, and people with disabilities). Join us for the launch of Foglifter’s Fall 2024 issue, celebrating our vibrant 9.2 edition with a dazzling night of literary readings. Explore new voices as our featured writers bring their work to life. Limited print copies of the issue will be available for purchase. Featuring Starlight Shamsi, Amalee Beattie, sienna fereshteh, Eden Nobile, Grayson Thompson, and more! Doors at 6:45PM. FREE, $10–15 suggested donation

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Starlight Shamsi

Starlight Shamsi (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator of SWANA descent currently based in California. Through visual media, performance, and collective storytelling, they explore the tension between rootedness and movement in diaspora. Amer’s work reinterprets... Read More →
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Amalee Bea

Amalee Bea (she/they) is a Blackqueer writer, artist, and curator of warm communal spaces based in Oakland, California (Ohlone Land). Their written work spans experimental poetry, nonfiction, science fiction, and prose. Her practice also includes painting, installation, and conceptual... Read More →
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Eden Nobile

Eden Nobile (he/they) is a trans writer originally from the Connecticut river valley, pursuing an MFA in poetry at St. Mary's College of California. Their writing life is highly influenced by ecology, possibly the long-term effects of watching Animal Planet as a youth. Nobile is a... Read More →
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sienna fereshteh

sienna fereshteh (they/them) is a multiracial, Iranian-American artist based in the South Bay Area. They believe that their fundamental role as a poet is to RESIST the insidious violence of erasure, to pay witness to humanity in its struggle for collective liberation—such that our... Read More →
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Grayson Thompson

Grayson Thompson [he/him] is a Black, Jamaican-American, queer transgender cowboy poet who moonlights as a therapist. A mouthful, Grayson is Foglifter Press' 2024 Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize Winner with SAND BODIED FLORIDA BOY (forthcoming 2025) and Winner of Write Bloody's 2024... Read More →
Friday October 11, 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Strut (470 Castro St, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA)

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