Hot Club News 🔥 #2
What to watch, read, and pitch this month
Thursday, October 17, 2024 ☀️
Writers, we’re happy you enjoyed our first edition of Hot Club News. Thank you for the real-time feedback via our poll, keep it coming! For our second edition, we’re excited to share coming events, submission opportunities and sizzling news: spot our very own Nicole in the background of Hot Seat, featured in the hottest queer film festival, New Fest 🔥
See you at the bottom with our next club meeting date!
xoxo,
writers club 🧡
HOT CLUB NEWS EDITION #2
New Fest is happening now! It’s the largest presenter of LGBTQ+ film & media in New York, with in-person screenings and online streaming options. We’re extremely proud of
whose short film, Hot Seat is featured in this year’s festival, and premieres tomorrow. To quote Celeste, “prepare to laugh, cry from laughing, and never throw your furniture out onto the street ever again.” Get your tickets here.
Pitch, pitch, pitch! Independent Press and Print Zine, Sweet-Thang is now accepting submissions for their eighth issue, and for the first time, is able to offer paid commissions to contributors. Sweet-Thang is looking for: photography, collages, poetry, illustrations, journal scans, long + short-form creative writing, speculative fiction, and personal essays. Submit your pitch here.
BolsterArts announced its new residency program, offering two artists a rent-free studio in Chinatown, Manhattan, and ending with a two-person exhibition at All Street Gallery in the East Village. Learn more and apply here.
Submit that poetry collection sitting in your Google Drive to the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Awards. They’re looking for unpublished manuscripts by October 31 so apply soon.
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We love celebrating first-time authors, and today we’re cheering for debut poet Brittany Rogers whose collection of poems, Good Dress (Poems) is hot of the press and ready to be savored. Get your copy here.
Join the Latinx Project (NYU) next Wednesday for Queering Orishas: Embodied Knowledges and Living Archives, an in-person panel led by Aurelis Troncoso who uses decolonial feminist approaches to explore LGBTQ practitioners of Santería and Espiritismo in Puerto Rico. Register here.
The film MALA MALA offers another glimpse into queer and trans life in Puerto Rico, showcasing both the triumphant highs and heartbreaking lows in the struggle for personal and community acceptance on the island. A screening of the film will be held at The Brick on Monday, October 28 to commemorate the movie's 10th anniversary. Plus, don’t miss a pre-film performance by writers club member and drag artist, Soraya Sis.
Borikén is in the house! The New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF) is coming to Puerto Rico for the first-ever NYLFF San Juan from October 31 to November 2. Check out more details here.
Who says Halloween is just for candy-obsessed kids and horny adults? Check out the annual Great PUPkin Dog Costume Contest on Saturday, October 26 in Fort Greene Park. Register your pup here. Happy Halloween 🎃
We meet next on Saturday, November 2
Join us for our next writers club meeting on November 2 (Francisco’s birthday). We’ll be casting spells, blowing birthday candles, and continuing to build our writing practice. Bring your ideas, drafts, or just yourself—we’re here to inspire and be inspired!
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