Outer Alliance podcast #69: OA Podcast #5 March 18, 2011
Posted by juliarios in : events, interviews, news, Outer Alliance Podcast , 3commentsWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #69. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. This week we’ve got the fifth Outer Alliance Podcast episode for you!
In this episode, Catherine Lundoff, Jean Marie Ward, and Lisa Nohealani Morton talk to me about Hellebore and Rue, an anthology about lesbian magic users. After the interview, Catherine reads a selection of teasers from the book, and Jean Marie reads an excerpt of her contribution.
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Notes:
Angela Korra’ti’s post about her plans to raise money for disaster relief in Japan is here.
This year’s Lambda Award Finalists are listed here. Congratulations to everyone, especially OA members, Steve Berman, Katharine Beutner, and Sandra McDonald!
MidSouthCon is happening next weekend in Memphis, Tennessee. I’ll be there along with OA member, Angelia Sparrow. if you’re nearby, come say hi!
The Rainbow Book Fair is also happening next weekend in New York. It’s a big and free LGBT book event, and Craig Laurence Gidney, Nora Olsen and Kat Lively will all be there!
Lisa’s poem in Strange Horizons is “How to Bake a Cake From Scratch”.
Viable Paradise, the writing workshop where Lisa and I first met, is open for applications until the 15th of June.
Catherine’s reading last Friday (we recorded the interview on Sunday the 13th) took place at Dreamhaven Books in Minneapolis. If you’re in the Twin Cities area, and want to support an awesome indie bookstore, that’s a great place to go.
Finally, in addition to all the cons Catherine and Jean Marie listed, Lisa says she’ll be at WorldCon in Reno this August, so if you’re there, say hello!
Thanks for listening, and please do feel free to leave feedback here, on the google group, or by e-mailing me at julia@juliarios.com. I’d love to hear from you.
Outer Alliance Spotlight #52: Coming Out 2010 October 15, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : links, news, publications, queer-friendly publishers, submissions , add a commentWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #52. The Spotlight features news about (and sometimes interviews with) allies who are active in supporting and celebrating LGBTQI speculative fiction. Coming out Day was Monday the 11th (Tuesday the 12th in the UK), so that’s our focus this week.
OA Members Talk About Coming Out:
Nicola Griffith shared an excerpt from her memoir, And Now We Are Going to Have a Party: Liner Notes to a Writer’s Early Life. This is a sad, alarming, amusing, and sweet glimpse of Nicola’s teen years before she became a well-adjusted and happily out adult.
Cheryl Morgan reminded us that being out is not always simple, easy, or safe with a post examining some of the challenges trans people face.
Catherine Lundoff agrees that being out is a privilege, and asks that we consider supporting organizations which help queer youth like District 202.
New Releases:
Rigor Amortis, the anthology of zombie erotica edited by Jaym Gates and Erika Holt is available at amazon, and contains stories by OA members Kay Holt and Kaolin Fire.
The Little Death of Crossed Genres, edited by Chris Fletcher and Jaym Gates is available in both electronic and print formats through the Crossed Genres website.
The latest issue of Weird Tales contains Natania Barron’s three part poem about “made” women in mythology. “The Wakened Image” appears alongside pictures by Brigid Ashwood.
Calls for Submissions by Queer-friendly Publishers:
Rose Lemberg would love to see poems with LGBTQI voices for Stone Telling. The current submission window is open until the 21st of November, and at present, Rose says there hasn’t been nearly enough queer content in the submissions pile.
Port Iris Zine is accepting submissions for issue #4 until the 5th of November. See their guidelines for more details.
Karen Romanko is looking for Halloween themed stories for her next anthology, Jack-o’-Spec.
That’s all for this time. Join us again next week, and please share any news you might have here in the comments, on the Outer Alliance google group, or via Twitter (mention either @omgjulia, or @outeralliance)
Outer Alliance Spotlight #23: Catherine Lundoff February 26, 2010
Posted by juliarios in : interviews , 1 comment so farWelcome to Outer Alliance Spotlight #23. Each Friday, the Spotlight features an ally who writes, reviews, publishes, or is in some other way involved with LGBTQI speculative fiction. Our guest this week is author and editor, Catherine Lundoff.
Catherine is a lesbian identified bisexual, who married her partner of 16 years last September. She’s been writing since 1996, and has amassed a long list of queer speculative and erotic fiction sales, including the recent “Great Reckonings, Little Rooms” in Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative History, and “The Egyptian Cat” in Tales of the Unanticipated #30.
She received a Lambda nomination for the lesbian ghost story collection, Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades in 2008, and also won the Golden Crown Literary Award in the Lesbian Erotica category that same year for her short story collection, Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing. She is currently reading submissions for a new anthology, Hellebore and Rue, which she is co-editing with JoSelle Vanderhooft.
Catherine is a regular at WisCon and Gaylaxicon, and she’ll also be appearing at MarsCon next week in Bloomington, Minnesota. If you can’t make it out to see her in person, you may find her online on LiveJournal, MySpace, Facebook, and GoodReads. She lives in Minnesota with her wife and two cats.