UNCOVERED TRUTHS & MANIPULATED WORLDS
In TANANARIVE DUE‘s work of historical fiction, The Reformatory: A Novel, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for
DYSTOPIAS & FALSE PROMISES
In the dystopian Chain-Gang All-Stars: A Novel, NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH offers a clear-eyed look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
Grades 9 – 12 Moderated by Ismery Pavon, program coordinator at Miami Book Fair. In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist
Two Memoirs: A Reading
Television producer Gary Janetti’s Do You Mind If I Cancel?: (Things That Still Annoy Me) chronicles the pains and indignities of everyday life. In his
Paris is Still Burning
In the Lobby Lounge…Miami Book Fair & Reading Queer Inspired by the legendary documentary film Paris is Burning and the queer counterculture it documents, Paris
Paris is Still Burning
Inspired by the legendary documentary film “Paris is Burning” and the queer counterculture it documents, this performance showcases prominent contemporary queer poets of color whose
“FANTASY FEMINOMENON” – MIDDLE GRADE FANTASY
Believing in yourself is hard enough without saving the whole world on top of it all! Find out how much Amari is willing to sacrifice
HARD-WON HOLINESS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA JACOBS & AVA NATHANIEL WINTER
Join us for a discussion on the tender and difficult poetry found between religious traditions, queer desire, Jewish transfemininity, cultural histories, and the ethical knots
LITERALLY LITERARY THRILLERS – FICTION
In JENNIFER CROFT’s The Extinction of Irena Rey: A Novel, eight translators visit a renowned author in a primeval Polish forest, who then mysteriously vanishes
SECRETS & SECOND CHANCES – FICTION
LOUIS BAYARD’s The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts revolves around a fateful summer in the life of famous playwright Oscar Wilde as he was
POWER DYNAMICS & COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS – FICTION
MESHA MAREN’s Shae: A Novel is the story of a young couple in the heart of West Virginia: the title character, who is pregnant, and
RUPTURE & REPAIR: POETRY OF DISPLACEMENT & TRANSFORMATION
ARMEN DAVOUDIAN’s The Palace of Forty Pillars tells the story of a self estranged from the world around him as a gay adolescent, an Armenian