Me as her again is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction!
This is quite an honor as the other finalists in the category include books by Michelle Cliff and Jane Rule. The award will be announced May 28.
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Upcoming readings in San Francisco:
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
5:30-6:30pm
UCSF Parnassus Campus
Room HSW 302
(Health Sciences West)
This program is being co-sponsored by the Staff Subcommittee of
the Chancellors Advisory Committee on LGBT Issues, SWANABAQ
(Southwest Asian/North African Bay Area Queers) & Aunt Lute Books
Attendance credit given toward the UCSF LGBT Wellness Program
Thursday April 9, 2009 With Mahru Elahi
Modern Times Bookstore 888 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 7:30 PM FREE ________________________________________________
In New York:
“Waiting for Tables,” a reading of new work
“Waiting for Tables” is an essay-in-progress about the histories of the Armenian and Turkish communities in Sunnyside and Woodside, Queens. This is a first person account about life and death, stories of immigration, and neighborhood diplomacy:
May 2 Topaz Arts 55-03 39th Avenue Woodside, QueensSubway directions: #7-train to 61 St. or the R, V, G trains to Northern Blvd.
Details and directions are available at www.topazarts.org.
The project is made possible in part with funds from the Decentralization Program, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.
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This summer, I’ll teach a writing workshop on cultural identity at Topaz Arts: Our Side
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Late breaking news: The Agos Literary Supplement, Kirk, is on women’s books and authors. Melissa Bilal did an interview with me, on page 9. The supplement is in Turkish but a few pages are in Armenian in the back: http://www.agos.com.tr/kirk5/Default.html