In Tkaronto on the last weekend of September? Head over to the Contemporary Stage at Word on the Street for a conversation between El Ghourabaa editors and two of the new queer and trans Arab anthology’s contributors.
A Room of One’s Own Bookstore in Madison, WI, will be hosting a launch of El Ghourabaa featuring co-editor Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch and anthology contributor Bazeed in conversation with Fawzy Taylor.
Seeking uncanny, fun, experimental, creepy, sarcastic, playful, vulgar, inventive, sexual, weird, sweet, and evocative works, editors Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch set out to collect Arab and Arabophone queer writing.
Kwan’s lyrical imagery and confessional poetry in Sacred Heart Motel makes readers question their own experiences and surroundings.