Speaking OUT With Queer Writers
Wed, Apr 27
|All She Wrote Books
As part of SpeakOUT Boston’s 50th anniversary celebration, All She Wrote Books is featuring an evening with three of their speakers, who are also published writers, to share their varied perspectives of being queer writers.


Time & Location
Apr 27, 2022, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
All She Wrote Books, 451 Artisan Way, Somerville, MA 02145, USA
About the Event
As part of SpeakOUT Boston’s 50th anniversary celebration, All She Wrote Books is featuring an evening with three of their speakers, who are also published writers, to share their varied perspectives of being queer writers. Lisa Bunker will discuss her inspiration for her Middle Grade novels, and Joseph Alcantara and Connelly Akstens will describe their journey involved with writing their memoirs.
About the Authors
Lisa Bunker's first novel, Felix Yz, about a boy fused with an alien, was published by Viking in June 2017. Her second novel, Zenobia July, about a trans girl getting to live as a girl for the first time in a new family and school and investigating a cyber crime, came out, also from Viking, in Spring 2019. Over the years Lisa has made homes in New Mexico, southern California, Seattle, the Florida panhandle, and Maine. She currently lives in Exeter, New Hampshire with her wife.…