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TONGUES AFIRE READING SERIES
featuring Cheryl Boyce Taylor
accompanied by Tongues Afire participants Lolan Sevilla, Charan Morris, Gail Dottin, and Poonam Srivastava

Thursday November 5, 2009
6:30-8:30pm
at the Audre Lorde Project (ALP)
85 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY (see directions below)

Please join us for the inaugural event of our fall reading series that features Tongues Afire participants reading with established writers and cultural activists!

This event is FREE and open to the public.

Cheryl Boyce-Taylor – Born in Trinidad and raised in New York City, Cheryl Boyce Taylor is the author of three collections of poetry, Raw Air, Night When Moon Follows, and Convincing the Body.  She holds Master’s Degrees in both Education and Social Work, and has led writing residences for Urban WordNYC, Poets House, Poets & Writers and The New York Public Library.  Her texts Water and Redemption have been commissioned through Duke University, Jacob’s Pillow and the National Endowment for the Arts, for Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Dance Company.

The Tongues Afire Reading Series is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) and the Audre Lorde Project.

Tongues Afire is a free creative writing workshop for Queer Women, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color, facilitated by R. Erica Doyle, that meets weekly in the fall at ALP.

Future Events in the Tongues Afire Reading Series at ALP, all 6:30-8:30:

Thursday, November 19th: featuring Juanita Diaz-Cotto (Juanita Ramos), SINISTER WISDOM 74: Latina Lesbians (ed.), Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice, Companeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology) (ed.), and Gender Ethnicity and the State: Latino and Latina Prison Politics.

Thursday, December 10th: featuring Cheryl Clarke, author of Humid Pitch, Living as A Lesbian, Experimental Love, Narrative:Poems in the Tradition of Black Women, The Days of Good Looks, and After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement.

Wednesday, December 16th: Tongues Afire 4: 2009 Participant Reading:  Join us to celebrate the conclusion of the Fall 2009 TA workhop.

Directions
Audre Lorde Project
85 South Oxford St between Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217

C train to Lafayette Avenue; G train to Fulton Street; 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, M, N, R to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street

When Women Gather

Editor: Claudia Moss

Publisher: Logical-Lust Press

Deadline: December 31, 2009

Payment: $50/story and 1 copy of the book upon publication

Everyone—whether female or male—has stood, at some point in his life, in the presence of women and known authentic power and healing energy and the beauty of the erotic, and as a result of this experience, has been transformed, in some way, into a greater vision of self.  The forthcoming anthology, When Women Gather, will depict what this phenomenon feels like, tastes like and looks like, through a range of unique short stories, essays, personal accounts and poetry.

I am seeking well-written, literary submissions from women and men, young and old, from every corner of the globe, from the published and unpublished.  Although submissions can be erotic, sensual, romantic, political, spiritual or humorous, they must be true.  Ponder writing about refugee women and girls banning together in a strange land, a street of women who come together to rid the neighborhood of a crack house, women who pray together in drumming or humming circles to excise the world of negative energy, women who embrace the erotic in the taboo of loving one another, women who camp under the stars in North Georgia mountains at women’s festivals or female family and friends who meet in a nursing home to honor a matriarch.  I’m flexible but not taboo friendly, so please no incest, underage characters, or bestiality.

Stories should be unpublished, between 1,500 and 4,000 words, and submitted as a Word attachment.  Two (2) submissions are allowed per writer.  Please include a cover letter with a paragraph bio and full contact info (mailing address, phone number, and real name/pseudonym) when you send your submissions.  All submissions that fail to adhere to these directives will be deleted unread.

Payment will be $50/story and 1 copy of the book upon publication.  Contributors retain the rights to their stories.  The publisher has the final approval over the manuscript.

Send your submissions as a Word document to whenwomengatherbook@gmail.com.

If you have any questions about When Women Gather, please query whenwomengatherbook@gmail.com.

Deadline: December 31, 2009

Manuscripts will be accepted on a rolling basis, so writers are encouraged to submit early.  Email: whenwomengatherbook@gmail.com