BGSQDBureau of General Services—Queer Division
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U.S. Launch of queer American/Canadian Authors: Melanie Mitzner‘s novel Slow Reveal, set in 1990s New York and Ken Harvey‘s novel The Book of Casey Adair, set in 1980s Madrid, Boston and New York.
WITH FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS THROUGH THE WRITERS’ UNION OF CANADA
Suggested donation $10 to benefit the Bureau’s work.
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Registration not required to attend–only to make a donation.
Purchase Melanie Mitzner’s Slow Reveal (Inanna Publications & Education, 2022, paperback, $22.95) from the Bureau’s online store.
Purchase Ken Harvey’s The Book of Casey Adair (U of Wisconsin Press, 2021, paperback, $18.95) from the Bureau’s online store.
Both books are also available at our physical store as well.
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Melanie Mitzner was awarded an Edward Albee Fellowship for her play Personal Effects. Her screenplay Dodge and Burn was a finalist in the Writers Guild East Foundation Fellowships. In the Name of Love and Out to Lunch were finalists in the Houston Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. She received a fellowship from M.E.T. Theater and fiction grants from Vermont Studio Center and Summer Literary Seminars. An excerpt of her novel Too Good to Be True was published in Harrington Lesbian Quarterly. She’s written for Vol1Brooklyn, Wine Spectator, Hamptons, The Groovy Mind, Society for Curious Thought, Broadcast Week, Millimeter and Bloom. She appeared on Best of Women’s Fiction podcast. You can follow her on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. For more information, visit her website: www.melaniemitzner.com. She lives in Montréal and New York.
Ken Harvey is the author of two award-winning books: a short story collection (If You Were With Me Everything Would Be All Right) and a memoir (A Passionate Engagement). He’s been published in over twenty U.S. and international literary magazines, including The Massachusetts Review, Consequence, and The Buenos Aires Review. He’s read his work on National Public Radio in the United States and in Italy and has been granted writing residencies at the Wurlitzer Foundation and the Millay Colony. A book reviewer for Lambda Literary, Ken holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College. A native of Boston, he now lives in Toronto with his husband and basset hound, Lily Tomlin.