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Saints and Sinners is an annual celebration that takes place in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans each spring. The Festival includes writing workshops, readings, panel discussions, literary walking tours, and a variety of special events. We also aim to inspire the written word through our short fiction contest, and our annual Saints and Sinners Emerging Writer Award sponsored by Rob Byrnes. Each year we induct individuals to our Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is intended to recognize people for their dedication to LGBTQ literature. Selected members have shown their passion for our literary community through various avenues including writing, promotion, publishing, editing, teaching, bookselling, and volunteerism.This collection includes a varied selection of fiction from the 2024 festival including the winners and finalists for the festival's annual poetry contest.

Saints and Sinners is an annual celebration that takes place in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans each spring. The Festival includes writing workshops, readings, panel discussions, literary walking tours, and a variety of special events. We also aim to inspire the written word through our short fiction contest, and our annual Saints and Sinners Emerging Writer Award sponsored by Rob Byrnes. Each year we induct individuals to our Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is intended to recognize people for their dedication to LGBTQ literature. Selected members have shown their passion for our literary community through various avenues including writing, promotion, publishing, editing, teaching, bookselling, and volunteerism.This collection includes a varied selection of poetry from the 2024 festivals including the winners and finalists for the festival's annual poetry contest.

Mercedes General is a series of linked short stories following the exploits of writer Kent Mortenson and his husband, architect Spencer Michalek as they negotiate a life together from their first meeting as boys. Defying anyone who steps between them, they take on the challenges of growing up a couple-including battles with their families, pedophiles, protestors at their senior prom, and unwanted attention for starting an AIDS hospice during the early part of the epidemic."Tender and incisive, Wheeler's stories meditate on mortality and loss in ways both discomfiting and consolatory. Spanning forty years, Mercedes General is also a queer coming-of-age collection that muses on death and fragility in a manner nothing short of revelatory. Never succumbing to the maudlin or the macabre, Wheeler's collection charts the painful journey from the uncertainty of adolescence to the hard-earned cynicism of adulthood." -Brian Alessandro, author of Performer Non Grata, co-writer of Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story: The Graphic Novel, and co-editor of Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs."Jerry Wheeler has written something special with Mercedes General. The story moves across decades, following the misadventures of two boys who have the great (mis)fortune to find each other so early in life, perhaps before they're quite ready, and somehow defy all the odds - bigotry, well-intentioned but clueless relatives, and finally the HIV/AIDS pandemic - to carve out their own little corner of history. Ultimately, the story being told here is one that gay literature has somewhat overlooked, and it's a story that matters. By turns wise, sad, funny, and raunchy, this is a book well worth reading." -Marshall Moore, author of Love Is a Poisonous Color, I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing, and The Concrete Sky

Imperative to Spare is the first installment of a trilogy in which Hightower seeks to explore diplomacies of the heart. He puts an altruistic human face on suffering and awe. The poetic voice is that of the lone surviving wanderer in the landscape of grief and loss-missives from bereavement in the wasteland. By design, nothing is meant to last forever. Love is the most powerful force in the universe as we can always create more of it.The poems sample diverse literary styles. His work is a mix of Callimachus, Rumi, William Blake, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, H.D., T.S. Eliot, and Anne Sexton.Poems shift in tone from the casual familiar to the literary (ekphrastic guide, voices of biblical or pagan characters, shepherds, etc.). In emotional content there are discants of Gilgamesh mourning Enkidu, Achilles mourning Patroclus, Job wrinkling his rhetoric to his Lord, David mourning Saul and Jonathan, Alexander mourning Hephaestion, the white cue ball disappearing into the darkness of a pool table pocket. The manuscript is divided into four sections. It evokes images ranging from Ariadne, Sampson, The Good Samaritan, New Testament Mary in her flight to Egypt, to Scarlett O'Hara and Christopher Isherwood's George Falconer in A Single Man: "If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in." "In his poem 'The Gaze, ' Hightower writes of a man on the street: "I want // to lie down, / curl next to him / without perlustration, / without exchanging / a glace // or a word.' Fortunately for us readers, in Imperative to Spare, he has done quite the opposite: Hightower crafts a perlustration of grief that is unequivocally personal, profound, and with few peers. While his mastery of heightened language remains clear, it's when Hightower's language arrives unadorned that we discern the total vulnerability of the poet in mourning: as in the middle of 'The World is Full of Beautiful Things, ' where the speaker's gratitude for a beloved's absence is reminiscent of the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva's plaintive utterances; or in 'Gashapon, ' describing a candy vending machine, he writes, 'The sign reads: 'The light inside / is broken, but I still work.' // 'Me, too, vending machine. / Me, too...' Hightower's discrete moments with objects, memories of 'another set of eyes, ' and a world unencumbered by his private pain elucidates the multivalence of a beloved's death. And all the little darlings-ourselves included-are better off knowing it."-Daniel W. K. Lee, author of Anatomy of Want

The woman who would be known as Mother Shipton was born Ursula Southeil towards the end of the fifteenth century. Popular legend recounts how she was born in a cave near the town of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, northern England. Following the death of her husband, young Ursula returned to the cave where she lived the rest of her days. She gained fame in her own lifetime as a prophetess and seer, as well as a witch by some. In a 1537 letter, King Henry viii referred to the "witch of York" and this is generally thought a contemporary reference to Shipton. Her fame lived on after her death in 1561 and grew as time transformed story to legend. Her Knaresborough cave near the River Nidd remains a popular tourist attraction to this day.This 1686 edition, presented here in facsimile form, is one of the earliest collections of Mother Shipton's prophecies.

Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though his queerness was central to his life and work. Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs serves as an appreciation and reclamation project. We seek to bring Burroughs into the gay literary canon. Editors Brian Alessandro, co-author of Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story graphic novel, and Tom Cardamone, author of the Lambda Award-winning speculative fiction novel Green Thumb, have compiled interviews and essays featuring emerging and established writers, filmmakers, musicians, artists, and critics, including Blondie founders and musicians Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, cultural critic and author Fran Lebowitz, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America), filmmaker David Cronenberg (The Fly, Dead Ringers, A History of Violence, Naked Lunch), multiple Hugo-Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany (The Mad Man, Nova, Babel-17), National Book Award-winner Edmund White, PUNK magazine founder and former SPIN and NERVE editor, Legs McNeil, Gregory Woods (A History of Gay Literature), Paul Russell (The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov), Charlie Vazquez (Dreaming Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Writers), Rebel Satori publisher Sven Davisson and Burroughs's bibliographer and literary executor, James Grauerholz, among many others. Some offer critical assessments of Burroughs, while others share personal experiences. Brian Alessandro is a writer, artist, and filmmaker. His work has appeared in Newsday, Interview Magazine, Bloom, PANK, Huffington Post, Turtle Point Press, Lambda Literary, Edmund White: By the Book, and (Re): An Ideas Journal. He has also written and directed the feature film, Afghan Hound, founded the literary journal, The New Engagement, and wrote the novel, The Unmentionable Mann. He recently co-adapted Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story into a graphic novel for Top Shelf Productions. He holds an MA in clinical psychology from Columbia University and has taught the subject for twelve years.Tom Cardamone is the editor of Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book, and is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning speculative novella Green Thumb as well as the erotic fantasy The Lurid Sea and other works of fiction, including two short story collections. Additionally, he has edited The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered.

Mankind's survival hangs in the balance...In the year 2066, the artist haven of Santa Fe, New Mexico emerges as ground zero for the conquest and destruction of Earth by the evil Zolteots. Nick Clements and Daniel Vigil-Cruz - a writer and an artist still deeply in love after 12 years together - become the improbable fulcrum through which Earth might survive. As they weigh what must be done to save our planet, they are forced to confront shocking truths which will transform the Earth - as well as their future together - forever. Brian Yapko is a lawyer in California, Oregon and New Mexico. To make up for it, he writes short stories and is presently hard at work on a space opera trilogy. He is also the author of over 100 poems published by approximately 45 literary journals. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his husband, Jerry, and their canine child, Bianca.

Inexplicably, William S. Burroughs has not been embraced by the LGBTQI community as one of our own, even though his queerness was central to his life and work. Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs serves as an appreciation and reclamation project. We seek to bring Burroughs into the gay literary canon. Editors Brian Alessandro, co-author of Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story graphic novel, and Tom Cardamone, author of the Lambda Award-winning speculative fiction novel Green Thumb, have compiled interviews and essays featuring emerging and established writers, filmmakers, musicians, artists, and critics, including Blondie founders and musicians Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, cultural critic and author Fran Lebowitz, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America), filmmaker David Cronenberg (The Fly, Dead Ringers, A History of Violence, Naked Lunch), multiple Hugo-Nebula Award-winning science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany (The Mad Man, Nova, Babel-17), National Book Award-winner Edmund White, PUNK magazine founder and former SPIN and NERVE editor, Legs McNeil, Gregory Woods (A History of Gay Literature), Paul Russell (The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov), Charlie Vázquez (Dreaming Out Loud: Voices of Undocumented Writers), and Burroughs's bibliographer and literary executor, James Grauerholz, among many others. Some offer critical assessments of Burroughs, while others share personal experiences.

Strange Fires is a richly diverse collection of queer speculative short fiction, starring pagan gods, psychic violinists, telepathic pyromaniacs, rebellious priests, gender-bending time travelers and fairy-tale villains.

"I'm with you laying on our bed / telling each other the dreams / we'd freshly had / before they're erased and gone," writes Addessi about a quiet moment of shared intimacy. In many ways, this is the poetics of Sleeptalking: an inhabitation of transient, surreal images cascading across spatial and temporal lines transversing. To sleeptalk, Addessi teaches us, is to do this dreamwork of vulnerable imagination even as may involve confrontations with irrational, the queer, the painful. But it is also the work of soothsaying and witnessing--when the unconscious speaks in its own forms and when the propriety of speech gives way to poetry that demands our "thinking about it in public." - Travis Chi Wing Lau, Paring"As the book's title suggests, we, as readers, converse with Addessi's reveries: its dream geography; its telescoping in and out of small moments that simultaneously stamp their significance on the inside of our skulls and make us relitigate the meaning of memories-especially those of a bygone relationship; its specificity of details like cello-lined walls, a taxidermied artic fox, or scorched yams, which anchor us from traversing into the ethereal, or worse, the generic. And whether or not we are witnessing the unfurling of Addessi's own past love(s), we are privy to an unflinching intimacy deftly rendered by his words". - Daniel W.K. Lee, Anatomy of Want"At any given moment in Sleeptalking, there are a number of sounds being heard: a cultural music, the vocalization of the nuclear family relation, of queer love and sexuality. We can sense, in a sense, that "someone next door is dancing," always, where "next door" is a sort of unattainable knowledge-and "the music's on loud." Loud enough that it's hard to think. So, instead of thinking, we abandon ourselves to the Addessi's party, which is happening, at least in part, in the interpersonal music of our bodies." - An Duplan, Take This StallionAntonio Addessi is a poet and writer living in New York City. He received his BA in English from the University of Maine('15) and his MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from Columbia University('20). His poems "old ironsides" and "fish and the creel" were first published digitally by Wrath-Bearing Tree.

In a parallel 2015, Conservative forces are in control of national policy. As a result, young gay men, pushed to the margins, must fight for equality and safety. A bomb. A wedding. A young man's first love, lost.

In this pair of novellas, award-winning author Scott Alexander Hess provides a richly textured portrait of the shifting landscape of the 20th century American Dream.The Root of Everything is a multi-generational saga tracking fathers and sons from Germany's Black Forest to Missouri as they experience tragedy, triumph, forbidden love, and hard-earned reckonings.In Lightning, a young man in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1918 is driven by his deep love for horses and his emerging feelings for another man. Offered a chance to move to New York City, he finds his true destiny.Shot through with layers of grief, passion, dangerous landscapes, and old-world mysticism, these are journeys into love, loss, and twists of fate that define us. Hess tells stories as deep as the Missouri River and as wide-ranging as the Wild American West.

When Matty Bennett writes, "I put everything on display," it doesn't feel like he's showing off, but showing in. These poems ripple with sweetness and vulnerability, they bubble with details that are as carefully chosen as they are skillfully rendered. Bennett wants to "be a man in love and let that be everything." Can it be everything? This engaging, endearing collection reminds us that it can.-Mark Bibbins, author of 13th BalloonMatty Bennett's debut collection is a beauty of a book, full of quirky, romantic, thoroughly original poems brimming with Sicilian landscapes, gay life in America, and the complex passions shared by young men.-Jeff Mann, author of A Romantic Mann and Redneck BouquetThe poems in Bennett's debut collection are intimate and full of longing, as well as an optimism that seems to arrive from the longing itself. He knows that it's better to want something, and to live in the world, than not to. This book is romantic and truly accessible. I loved reading it.- Alex Dimitrov, author of Love and Other Poems

900 years in the future, Captain Kip Kaplan is cashiered out of the Americas Coalition army and uses the help of a good friend and sometime lover to gain passage away from Earth's solar system. On Excalibur, a planet 4000 light-years from earth, he books passage on a merchant freighter headed to Titan via Zenobia, a vital strategic refueling and munitions base for the Americas Coalition. Onboard, he meets the mysterious Dr. Warren Chanders, and also a handsome young man traveling alone in search of adventure, Tobias Oberon. Kip and Tobias indulge in an affair as they make their way across the galaxy to Zenobia falling into intrigue, attempted killi, ngs, and romance. The Zenobian affair will bring Kip and Tobias closer than they ever thought possible and decide the fate of the universe as we know it.

Farrell R. Davisson was a media report who covered the golden age of television for Daily Variety in Chicago. He taught journalism at Penn State and mentored numerous young reporters. Following his career as a journalist, Davisson concentrated on creative writing. Odds and Ends brings together Davisson's poetry for the first time into a single collection. Davisson's work possesses a unique, and at times post-modern, voice. Accompanying and complimenting, the poetry are selections from Davisson's extensive photographic archives.

On a planet far from dying Earth, Jerry Nichols, an Episcopal priest, and his exobiologist husband, Rob, lead the efforts of a small band of religiously diverse settlers and scientists to create a new community where people can survive. They receive help from a mysterious entity, changing them and opening unforeseen possibilities. Then their sister ship arrives and upsets the delicate balance they've achieved. Will humanity once again become its own worst enemy or will a new way of Being emerge?Margaret Babcock is a retired Episcopal priest and the published author of Rooted in God (2005) and New Growth in God's Garden (2012). She also won first place in fiction from the Wyoming Writers Conference (2015) for her short story "Bridge to Before." She spends her time writing, supporting the Table (an emerging spiritual community) and caring for two young grandsons. She lives with her husband, assorted and variable family members, and an elderly cat in Casper, Wyoming.

An American Library Association Over the Rainbow Books selection, Emanuel Xavier's If Jesus Were Gay pulls no punches and is brutally frank about his views on sexuality, politics, and religion.

What happens when a genius of a painter meets a wealthy autograph dealer in New York City? Will they live happily ever after or will their worlds collide? Only Davis Jarvey, our gifted painter, will know for sure-on that dreaded day when he's forced to make...Mercury's Choice.

After service in Korea, Barney Cousins somehow didn't fit into things when he returned to his brother's house and business. There was an itch for independence, an urge to free himself from the old routine of scheduled activity. There was a drive to get moving to broaden experience. There were some wild oats to sow.

From late night strolls in the city to dancing around bonfires and drum circles, Jacob's experiences with community members is mostly a pleasant one. Things go bump in the night. Tension builds between people. Sickness and even death spread among the varying groups.

Eleanor Mayo has painted an unerring and brilliantly colored portrait of a strong man. Like his neighbors you fear and respect him; like his family you love him - and want to rend him limb from limb. There's writing power and a surging vitality behind this book. The surpassing beauty of the sea and land in Maine...

Swan's Harbor is a novel of events in a Maine village during a few weeks of one summer. Written with humor and understanding, it is a satisfying novel of Maine character and integrity.

Part Dramatic Play, part Occult Teaching Manual, part Psychotherapy Session, and part Socratic Dialogue, Psychic Reading is an exploration into the nature of the relationships we have with both others and ourselves.

"Emanuel Xavier's newest book radiates in diverse directions, back into a past of New York club kid glamour and violence, into a family history of lost connections, and into loves forfeited and found-all of which the poet illumines with steady-eyed honesty. Finally, as he confronts a health challenge to the very brain that is the root-place of these sharp and poignant poems, radiation becomes radiance, a hard-won inner light that lets us all see how 'splendid is our survival.'" -David Groff, author of Clay

Sven Davisson's first full length collection of poetry The Desire Line is a textual and photographic meditation on memory and impermanence.

The people of the little Maine town of Frenchville were suddenly faced by a new danger that October night. this is the story of how they individually responded to that danger. It had been the dryest summer and autumn on record. Early in October had come the fire that all had feared so long, a terrific holocaust that swept back and forth under changing winds across the peninsula, that most beautiful portion of the whole beautiful coast. Frenchville had been evacuated. Capriciously, parts of the village were burned and portions left untouched in curious contrast to the blackened hills. Now the people were gradually returning to their homes. In was Jay, the town's first slectman, who accidently discovered that the new fire in the powder-dry woods had been deliberately set. the men with him, all of them exhausted by the week of fighting the fire night and day, realized what that meant. Someone wanted to destroy what remained of Frenchville. Even as they began again patroling the back woods roads, watching for the slightest flicker of light, each man looked suspisciously at his neighbor. The days of suspense that followed did things to people. Mike Airey, just returned after seven years absence, found that his feelings for Ginny Hanscom, engaged though she might be, had not changed from that moonlit night when they had parted in bitter anger. Tiz Airey, so sturdily aloof and independent, found that perhaps adfter all a woman could not live for herself along. Subdued Polly Hanna, Jonesy, and even Powder Tilton, with nine children and his house destroyed, find a strength they did not know they possessed. then an accident turns out to be murder and horror is added to danger.