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Incite: Queer Writers Read
July 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
FreeThe theme for July’s Incite is Justice!
We’re back for a virtual Incite on July 15th with a country-wide line-up of writers that will make you contemplate our theme, justice: Leah Baer, Carolyn Martin, Ron Bloodworth, and Shay Raymond. Stunning!
We’ve only got room for 100 in our virtual room so, register and get the link at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMudOGtrD8rHdE5zQh8ziw4DWiGLGKw7MXh
Hosted by Kate Carroll de Gutes and Kate Gray
Kate Gray’s passion comes as a teacher, writing coach, and a volunteer writing facilitator with women inmates. For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems was published by Widow & Orphan House in 2019. Her first full-length book of poems, Another Sunset We Survive (Cedar House Books, 2007) was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and followed chapbooks, Bone-Knowing (2006), winner of the Gertrude Press Poetry Prize and Where She Goes (2000), winner of the Blue Light Chapbook Prize. Kate’s first novel, Carry the Sky, (Forest Avenue, 2014) stares at bullying without blinking. Over the years she’s been awarded residencies at Hedgbrook, Norcroft, and Soapstone, and a fellowship from the Oregon Literary Arts. Her poetry and essays have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. In her novel-in-progress, she narrates, in Sylvia Plath’s voice, what led to The Bell Jar and her suicide attempt in 1953. Kate and her partner live in a purple house in Portland with their impetuous dog.
Kate Carroll de Gutes’ book, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, won the 2016 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in Memoir. Her latest book, The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life, was released in August 2017. Kate has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and is a wry observer who writes about grief, the drama of perimenopause and dating, riding bikes, and the joys and challenges of authentic living.