May 13 - 16, 2010, in New Orleans, Louisiana

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  Saints & Sinners has already begun to book an exciting program for the Festival, including literary luminaries Ann Bannon, Michael Nava, and Tim Miller.   Participants include:
   

  • Ann Bannon has been called “The Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction” for her landmark “Beebo Brinker Chronicles,” a series of five original paperback novels published by Gold Medal Books in the 1950s and 60s. The books tell the stories of young lesbians in the gay Mecca of pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village. In the intervening years, having gone through many editions and reprints, Ann’s books have become something more than ardent and engaging tales; to a new generation of readers, they provide historical insights into gay life in those faraway days.
     

  • Emanuel Xavier is the author of the poetry collection Americano, the novel Christ Like, and editor of Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry and Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry. He has been featured on Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry on HBO and selected finalists for Best Gay Erotica 200. The CD, Legendary- The Spoken Word Poetry of Emanuel Xavier, is his first spoken word/music collaboration compilation album. He performs regularly throughout the country as an openly gay spoken word artist. He is recipient of the Marsha A. Gomez Cultural Heritage Award and a NYC Council Citation for his many contributions to gay, Latino and New York City arts.
     

  • Fiona Zedde is a transplanted Jamaican currently living and working in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work has been published in various anthologies including Best Lesbian Erotica 2004 and 2007, Wicked: Sexy Tales of Legendary Lovers, and Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica. She is also the author of four novels, the Lambda Literary Award finalists Bliss and Every Dark Desire, as well as A Taste of Sin and Hungry for It. Her novellas, “Pure Pleasure,” “Going Wild” and the “Sexual Attraction” appear in the collections, Satisfy Me, Satisfy Me Again, and Satisfy Me Tonight, respectively. Find out more at www.fionazedde.com.
     

  • Jim Grimsley is an award winning playwright and author. His literary fiction includes such novels as My Drowning, Winter Birds, Dream Boy, and Comfort and Joy; his fantasy fiction includes the award winning novels Kirith Kirin and The Ordinary. His latest two novels are The Last Green Tree, published by Tor Books of New York in 2006, and Forgiveness, published by the University of Texas Press as part of the inaugural James. A. Michener Fiction Series. His new story collection, Jesus Is Sending You This Message, was published in September 2008 by Alyson Books. Jim received the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Writers Award for his body of work in 1997, and has twice been a finalist for the Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2003-2004). In 2005 he won an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Jim was one of the inaugural recipients of the James Duggins Mid-Career Author’s Award in 2007.
     

  • Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the recipient of the 2009 Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction, the 2009 Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, as well as a California Arts Council Fellowship, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships. She is the author of three novels, a collection of short fiction, a collection of narrative nonfiction, and many books for children. Her novels have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, and German. Bledsoe is one of a tiny handful of people who have spent time at all three American stations in Antarctica. Her novel about three women living on that wild continent, The Big Bang Symphony, will be published in Spring 2010.
     

  • Michael Nava is the author of a seven-volume series of novels featuring a gay Latino criminal defense lawyer, Henry Rios. Published between 1988 and 2000, the Rios novels (The Little Death, Goldenboy, Howtown, The Hidden Law, The Death of Friends, The Burning Plain and Rag and Bone) earned six Lambda Literary awards and won widespread critical acclaim. In 2000, Nava was awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in gay and lesbian literature. Currently, Nava is at work on a historical novel set in an Arizona border town during the Mexican Revolution called The Children of Eve. A graduate of Stanford Law School, he has also had a distinguished career as an appellate lawyer and is currently a staff attorney for the Honorable Carlos Moreno, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court in San Francisco.
     

  • Tim Miller will be performing his new show, Lay of the Land, at the 2010 event. 
    
    Lay of the Land is Tim Miller’s saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Queer Union during a time of trial! Careening from his sexy misadventures performing in 45 States, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on gay folks all over the country, to his life as a grade-school flag monitor, to choking on cheap meat caught in his 10 year old gay boy’s throat, Lay of the Land friskily gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu! Lay of the Land is a “lay” in all kinds of ways: a sex-assignation, a queer citizenship map, and of course a narrative ballad with a recurrent refrain! (Miller’s favorite way-down-the-list definition for “lay”!)

  We at DREAMWalker Group hope to see you at the 8th annual Festival next year. And we’ll keep you posted as we finalize our plans for what’s certain to be another great event.

  (Last year's attendees included:

  Ali Liebegott
  Ali Vali
  Amie M. Evans
  Amy King
  Andrew W. M. Beierle
  Andrews & Austin
  Anne Laughlin
  Anthony Bidulka
  Barb Johnson
  Barbara Lhota
  Becky Cochrane
  Benoit Denizet-Lewis
  Brad Richard
  Brane Mozetic
  C. Cleo Creech
  Carol Rosenfeld
  Charles Rice-Gonzalez
  Christopher Hennessy
  Clara Nipper
  Clifford Henderson
  Collin Kelley
  Dale Chase
  Danielle Downs
  David Puterbaugh
  David-Matthew Barnes
  Elana Dykewomon
  Ellen Hart
  Fay Jacobs
  G. Winston James
  Gary Zebrun
  Geneva St. James
  Greg Herren
  J. M. Redmann
  Jameson Currier
  Jeff Mann
  Jeffrey Ricker
  Jeffrey Round
  Jennifer Knight
  Jenny Lowery
  Jerry Wheeler
  Jess Wells
  Jim Duggins
  Jonathan Sudholt
  Justine Saracen
  Kelly Smith
  Laura Mullen
  Lewis DeSimone
  Linda Daniel
  Marianne K. Martin
  Mark G. Harris
  Martin Hyatt
  Megan A. Volpert
  Michael Gross
  Michael Lowenthal
  Michael Montlack
  Michael Thomas Ford
  Michele Karlsberg
  Nathan Burgoine
  Peter Dubé
  Radclyffe
  Rob Byrnes
  Robert Taylor
  Samiya Bashir
  Scott Heim
  Shawn Clements
  Steve Scott
  Sven Davisson
  Theresa Davis
  Thomas Keith
  Timothy J. Lambert
  Trebor Healey
  Vincent Diamond
  Wayne Courtois
  William Holden)
   

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