What: Reading by multiple Lambda Literary Award finalists from Chicago & the Midwest
Where: The Center on Halsted, 3656 North Halsted Street in the Senior Center
When: Wednesday, May 22 at 7:00 PM
Why: The Lambda Literary Award Ceremony is just around the corner on June 3rd
Who: Co-hosted by The Lambda Literary Foundation and Gerber/Hart Library & Archives. Dr. Judith Markowitz, President of the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF), will MC the event and the following authors are scheduled to appear:

• Ramon H. Rivera-Servera, finalist in LGBT Studies, reading from Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics 
• Chris Paynter, finalist in Lesbian Romance, reading from Survived by Her Longtime Companion
• Lewis Wallace, finalist in LGBT Anthology, reading “Dirt Story” from Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
• Laura Knight, finalist in LGBT Debut Fiction, reading from Three Cubic Feet
• Tracy Baim, finalist in LGBT Studies, editor of Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in American
• Anne Laughlin, finalist in Lesbian Romance, reading from Runaway
• C.P Rowlands, finalist in Lesbian Mystery, reading from Jacob’s War
• E.M. Kokie, finalist in LGBT Children/YA, reading from Personal Effects
• Marty McConnell, finalist in Lesbian Poetry, reading from Wine for a Shotgun

The only book I’ve read from this list is Runaway by Chicago writer Anne Laughlin who I met last year at Women and Children First for the book’s launch.