General Information
Schedule
Readings
Registration Form
Participants
Sponsors
Author Signings

GENERAL INFORMATION

PINK INK is an LGBT literary conference and book fair organized by the Publishing Triangle. PINK INK 2006 will take place at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City (208 West 13th Street) on June 10 & 11. There will be workshops, panel discussions, readings, a book fair, and a walking tour.

There are lots of ways to participate in PINK INK 2006. Buy a weekend pass or pay per panel--whatever works for you. The book fair is free and open to the public, so please stop by on Saturday, June 10 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and buy a book from one--or more!--of our sponsors. The PINK INK reading series is also free. Plus, Samuel Delany will lead a walking tour of Times Square on Saturday, June 10 at 11:00 a.m. Participants will receive a copy of Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, courtesy of NYU Press. (Space is limited, so please sign up in advance.)

A complete schedule, with descriptions of the panels, follows below. You will also find a link to the registration form, which is a PDF file that you can download from this site and mail in. Keep checking back as we add more information about exhibitors and sponsors in the coming weeks.

For information about PINK INK--including exhibiting at the book fair, sponsoring, volunteering, or helping to plan PINK INK--send an e-mail to pinkink@publishingtriangle.org. Please put "Pink Ink" in the subject line.

SCHEDULE FOR PINK INK 2006
(updated 5/12/06)

Saturday, June 10, 2006
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street, New York, N.Y.

10:00 a.m.: Doors to Exhibition Hall open. Free and open to the public until 5:00 p.m.

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.: Query Letters Workshop (pre-registration required/separate fee). Agent: Daniel Lazar, Writers House. Writers who confidently turn out pages of beautiful prose can quail at the prospect of crafting a query letter. What makes a good query letter, and what can you do to make your query letter stand out from the rest? Participants will submit one query letter in advance for comment at this workshop. Limited to 12 participants. $25. By no later than May 30, please send your sample query letter and a check made payable to “The Publishing Triangle” to: Pink Ink/Query Letters, The Publishing Triangle, 332 Bleecker Street, #D36, New York, NY 10014.

10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.: The Book That Made Me Gay. Moderator: Thomas Keith. Panelists: Kenyon Farrow, James Earl Hardy, Trebor Healey, and others TBA. For many of a certain generation, our first glimpse into our sexuality came from a book--whether it was Our Bodies, Ourselves, Tales of the City, The Well of Loneliness, Maurice, Rubyfruit Jungle, The Front Runner, or so many others. In a way, our first experience of what was to come came from the talent and imagination of our favorite authors. The books did not “make” us LGBT, but they did offer a sense of what being queer was like. Join Trebor Healey and others as they share their stories of “the first time” with a queer book, and discuss the role literature has played in our lives, and our community.

11:00 a.m.: A Saturday Morning Stroll through Times Square with Samuel Delany (pre-registration required/separate fee). Cost: $25 if you register by June 1; $35 thereafter. Limited to 12 people. Participants will receive a copy of Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, courtesy of NYU Press.

11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Agents 101 (pre-registration required/separate fee). Agents: Greystone Literary Agency (nonfiction); Bob Shuman, Merit Agency (nonfiction); Mitchell Waters, Curtis Brown (fiction). Literary agents--representing fiction and nonfiction--will offer private, 15-minute, one-on-one critiques of query letters and the first 10-15 pages of a fiction manuscript, or query letters and a nonfiction book proposal. $50. Please specify fiction or nonfiction on the registration form. By no later than May 30, please send your sample query letter, pages or proposal, and registration form, along with a check made payable to “The Publishing Triangle” to: Pink Ink/Agents The Publishing Triangle, 332 Bleecker Street, #D36, New York, NY 10014.

11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Oz: New York and the Queer Imagination. Moderator: Aaron Krach. Panelists: Tom Dolby, Chrisopher Nutter, Doric Wilson. New York City has been at the heart not just of LGBT life and activism but its literature as well. Beyond its size, what is it about these five boroughs that have served as incubator, flash point, and stage for so many different kinds of queer writing? This panel of New York-identified writers discuss what (if anything) unifies the sensibility of queer prose, poetry, and drama sparked by our city--and questions the future of LGBT literature in a city where alternative voices are increasingly crowded out by wealth and power.

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Pink Ink Reading Series #1 (free and open to the public). Gene Kahn, James Earl Hardy.

1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.: Lunch break. Visit our book fair and browse.

1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.: Pink Ink Reading Series #2 (free and open to the public). Jason Roush, Bill Valentine, Christopher Lee Nutter, Richard Tayson.

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.: Flaming Self-Promotion. Moderator: Michael Luongo. Panelists: Kate Bornstein, T Cooper, Dave King. Don’t you know who I am? Or more importantly, don’t you know about my book? If you’re in gay publishing or looking to be, chances are, you don’t have much publicity money. How can you get media attention, reviews and other things that will drive sales and get your baby – I mean your book – the attention it deserves. Learn how to work with media, use readings and other events to generate attention, how to find groups whose work fits with your book topic, and other real-life examples from our panelists. You wrote it, let’s make sure people read it.

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.: We’re Funny That Way. Moderator: Bob Smith. Panelists: Jaffe Cohen, Brian Sloan. Four leading gay and lesbian authors discuss the art of comic writing. We’ll discuss comic writing in different genres such as the novel, stand-up comedy, playwriting, and autobiographical comic essays. The panelists vow to remain witty and amusing even when discussing the notoriously somber subject of comedy.

2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.: Pink Ink Reading Series #3 (free and open to the public). Sara Seinberg, Guillermo Castro, Patricia Grossman.

3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: If I Knew Then What I Know Now. Moderator: Carol Rosenfeld. Panelists: Thomas Glave, Felicia Luna Lemus, Patrick Ryan, Lauren Sanders. Admit it--when you’re not in thrall to your Muse, clicking those keys or furiously scribbling away, you fantasize about being a published author. About a contract that will enable you to quit your boring day job, glowing reviews in major papers, standing-room only readings, adoring fans, even--Oprah! Four authors who have made the transition from fantasy to reality talk about the process, and offer tips for journey.

3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: The Body Endangered. Moderator: TBA. Panelists: Carol Dixon, Karla Jay, Richard McCann, and others TBA. Our LGBT identity is predicated on our bond with our bodies. But whether from HIV, cancer, other illnesses, injury, physical violence, or mortality itself, our bodies inevitably become endangered. When our bodies challenge us, what is the impact on our identity, our sense of community, our perceptions, our goals, and, not least, our writing? The writers on this panel, who have all confronted various traumas to the physical self, explore the risks and opportunities of making art about the imperiled body.

3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.: Pink Ink Reading Series #4 (free and open to the public). Sarah Schulman, Kathleen Warnock, Douglas A. Martin, Roger Pinnell, Dave King.

5:00 p.m.: Exhibitor's Hall Closes.

Sunday, June 11, 2006
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center
208 West 13th Street, New York, N.Y.

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Writers On-Line. Moderator: Sean Meriwether. Panelists: Toni Amato, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Jameson Currier, Timothy State. The internet is one of the most democratic venues for marginalized writers to get their words to the public; anyone with a hookup can access your work, giving you global exposure and more reads than most traditional outlets can offer. What are the online markets and resources to publish your work? What should you include in your personal website? Learn the pros and cons of self-promotion, blogging, e-books and going digital.

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: Poetry, Politics, and the Personal: Gay and Lesbian Poets Probe the Political Moment. Moderator: Christopher Hennessey. Panelists: Edward Field, Timothy Liu, and others TBA. Fifty years ago Allen Ginsberg published the ground-breaking poem “Howl,” sending literary and socio-political reverberations across the country. Poets as diverse as Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Thom Gunn and others would also raise their political voices for causes like racism, feminism, and AIDS. Many poets made powerful political statements simply by writing about the gay experience. Since that time, gay poets have flourished at major publishing houses, won the highest honors, and generally had a profound impact on American literature. Also since that time, poetry that is political has waned, often being derided if produced at all. This panel featuring four luminary poets will look back at the legacy of the political poets of the past and examine where poetry and politics intersect today for gay and lesbian writers.

12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Pink Ink Reading Series #5 (free and open to the public). Trebor Healey, Emanuel Xavier, T Cooper.

12:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.: Sex on the Page. Moderator: Kyle Walker. Panelists: Wayne Hoffman, Zaedryn Meade, Rich Merritt, Sam J. Miller. Being queer begins with sexual desire—the reality, the promise, the memory, the pursuit. How do writers render our sexuality in action while keeping it real (or fantasical), hot (or cool), and artful (or just sexual)? What’s the role of sexiness and the sex act in print? How explicit should literary writers be and how implicit should erotic writers be? Do literary writers, seeking respectability, tend to stuff queer sex back in the closet? Do erotic writers aim to do more than turn us on? And whatever your motive in writing sex, how can you best render the bent desire that magnetizes us all?

12:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.: Writing What You Don’t Know: Becoming the Other. Moderator: TBA. Panelists: Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Ph.D, and others TBA. Lesbians writing gay erotica. Couch potatoes writing characters who are athletes. Gay white Jews writing characters who are straight black Baptists. Should a writer even consider it? How can it be done in a respectful way? An authentic way?

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.: Pink Ink Reading Series #6 (free and open to the public). Vanda, Jennifer Joy Pawlitschek (Both doing plays, 30 mins.).

Information about local restaurants will be available so you can enjoy lunch and/or dinner in the neighborhood.

PINK INK READINGS (as of 06/3/2006)
Reading Series coordinated by Cheryl B. - www.cherylb.com

Saturday June 10 – 12-4:30 pm

12-1
Gene Kahn
James Earl Hardy

1:30-2:30
Jason Roush
Bill Valentine
Christopher Lee Nutter
Richard Tayson

2:30- 3:30
Sara Seinberg
Guillermo Castro
Patricia Grossman

3:30-4:30
Sarah Schulman
Kathleen Warnock
Douglas A. Martin
Roger Pinnell
Dave King

Sunday June 11 – 12-2pm

12-1
Trebor Healey
Emanuel Xavier
T Cooper

1-2
Vanda
Jennifer Joy Pawlitschek (Both doing plays, 30 mins.)

REGISTRATION FORM

Click here to view the PINK INK Registration Form as a PDF file.

PARTICIPANTS (as of 06/7/06)

Toni Amato
Cheryl B.
Kate Bornstein
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Regie Cabico
Guillermo Castro
Jaffe Cohen
T Cooper
Juanita Diaz-Cotto
Jameson Currier
Carol Dixon
Kenyon Farrow
Edward Field
Thomas Glave
James Earl Hardy
Trebor Healey
Christopher Hennessey
Wayne Hoffman
Karla Jay
Thomas Keith
Dave King
Aaron Krach
Daniel Lazar
Felicia Luna Lemus
Timothy Liu
Michael Luongo
Douglas A. Martin
Richard McCann
Zaedryn Meade
Sean Meriwether
Rich Merritt
Sam J. Miller
Carol Rosenfeld
Jason Roush
Patrick Ryan
Lauren Sanders
Sarah Schulman
Sara Seinberg
Bob Shuman
Brian Sloan
Bob Smith
Timothy State
Richard Tayson
Kathleen Warnock
Mitchell Waters
Doric Wilson
Emanuel Xavier

SPONSORS (as of 5/10/06)

BLOOM Magazine
Books To Watch Out For
InsightOutBooks
Michelle Karlsberg Marketing & Management
Lambda Literary Foundation
Latina Lesbian History Project (LLHP)
My Comrade
Oscar Wilde Bookshop
Pmyner, Ltd.
The Publishing Triangle
RedBone Press
Soft Skull Press

AUTHOR SIGNINGS

There is no formal author signings program at Pink Ink this year. However, individual sponsors may have authors signing at their tables in the Exhibition Hall. As information about these signings becomes available, it will be listed here.