Tag: fiction
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We’re Not Here if We’re Queer
To be honest, I am always angry when people say they’re are publishing work by queer authors, but that the topics of the stories therein are not “limited” to LGBTQAI etc topics. I know they mean well, but what they are saying is that somehow, our unique identities and experiences are limiting. That somehow being queer […]
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Let me learn from where I have been
I’ve been trying to figure out what I would write about the Lambda Literary Emerging Writer’s Retreat. I think the solution is just to sit down and write, and by the process of writing, get to what I want to say. First off: Malinda Lo, my awesome workshop instructor, wrote a great post on the […]
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This Is Not The Post You Are Looking For
I will be blogging about my experience at the Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Retreat at some point. For now, I really just wanted to write a “thank you” post to all of the people who helped me get to the Retreat. I would sincerely like to thank all of the people, past and present, who […]
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You Should be Writing
Some of you are probably familiar with that “you should be writing meme”, wherein people take a picture of their favorite TV or film characters, and put the caption “you should be writing” on the picture. You can do a quick Google image search to get the gist of the idea. I have a few of […]
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Lambda Literary Fellowship
Long time no blog for me! It was a hectic spring semester for me, to say the least. But I bring very glad tidings: I have been awarded a Fellowship with the Lambda Literary Emerging Writer’s Retreat. I am still dazed and humbled over the fact that my work (and therefore, myself) were selected. I will […]
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The Status is Not Quo: Sexism in Fantasy
This past week, I had the misfortune of speaking with another fantasy author who thought that sexism in medieval fantasy “makes sense”. She was defending another author’s sexist assumptions about a work we were critiquing. I gave her what I hoped was my best are you fucking kidding me? look before proceeding to explain the obvious: “It’s fantasy. […]
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An Excerpt from “The Greek Boy”
Last night at the Colorado Springs Writers Read Series, I read an excerpt from my short story “The Greek Boy”, which is about Lord Byron. In the final months of his life, Lord Byron was preoccupied with two things: supporting the Greek struggle for independence against Turkey, and his fifteen year old page-boy, Lukas. This […]
J. S. Kuiken 