Sweet & Rough: A night of kinky queer erotica

Come join Sinclair Sexsmith, Kathleen Warnock, Carol Rosenfeld, Jack Stratton, Marissa Quenqua, Dena Hankins, Guy New York, Felice Shays, & Kelli Dunham for a night of reading dirty stories at everyone's favorite bookstore, cafe, & activist center, Bluestockings! Celebrate the paperback release of Sinclair's full-length kinky queer erotica short story collection, Sweet & Rough. See you in NYC! $5 donation suggested, NOTAFLOF Felice Shays writes things about sex and relationships, about bodies and being Jewish. She also teaches sex and BDSM around the continent. She is currently working on a new show about a lot of those things. Kathleen Warnock (sometimes also known as Kyle Walker), was formerly the editor of Best Lesbian Erotica (2010-14) and enjoyed publishing the work of dozens of amazing writers. She's been known to write some erotica herself, as well as plays, essays, interviews, articles and teeny-tiny pieces of content on Google maps. Carol Rosenfeld is a New York City-based writer and poet. Her debut novel, The One That Got Away, was published by Bywater Books in June 2015. Captain Dena Hankins writes aboard her boat, preferably in a quiet anchorage. Her new book, Heart of the Liliko‘i, has been called "strong and satisfying" with "intensely vivid sexual encounters" by Publishers Weekly. Her first book, Blue Water Dreams, was named one of the Best of 2014 by Out in Print. When she's not writing novel-length romance, she keeps her fingers limber with short story erotica and has half a dozen stories in print. Marissa Quenqua is a queer writer living in Brooklyn. She is currently working on a series of romance erotica, to be released this year by Enamored Ink. Her work has been featured by Freerange Nonfiction and SMITH Magazine, creators of Six Word Memoirs and others. She enjoys writing searingly honest, often sexy nonfiction prose as well as erotica. Marissa has a background in publishing and and is also at work on a book of literary nonfiction, exploring themes of femme invisibility in the queer community, among others. Jack Stratton is a native Brooklynite, a writer, a feminist, a dandy, a switch, and most of all a hedonist. He has been writing erotica for eight plus years on his site writingdirty.com and is hard at work on various new stories and novels ranging from the dirty to the literary, which he hopes will end up being both. Guy New York is a bestselling erotica author and publisher with more than 25 titles to his name. With two full length novels, numerous short works, and a thousand free stories on his blog Quickies in New York, his books have been widely read and occasionally burned. Genderqueer ex-nun nerdcomic Kelli Dunham has been making uncomfortable comedy for more than 15 years. Gender Envy will be a CD recording show for her 5th comedy CD. Her last four CDs "I am NOT a 12 year Old Boy" and "Almost Pretty" and "Why Is the Fat One Always Angry" and "Full of Bad Ideas" are all on regular rotation on Sirius XM Radio's Rawdog Comedy Station as well as Pandora's Margaret Cho station. SINCLAIR SEXSMITH is a genderqueer kinky butch writer who teaches and performs, specializing in sexualities, genders, and relationships. They’ve written at sugarbutch.net since 2006, recognized numerous places as one of the Top Sex Blogs. Sinclair’s gender theory and queer erotica is widely published in online and in more than twenty anthologies. They edited the anthologies Best Lesbian Erotica 2012 and Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica, published a novella series in 2015. Sweet & Rough: Queer Kink Erotica is their first full-length book. They were awarded the National Leather Association 2015 Cynthia Slater Nonfiction Article Award. Sinclair lives in Oakland, California with their family, and uses the pronouns they/them/theirs/themself.