Sunday, August 8, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

This panel of debut authors will discuss navigating publishing as a queer author, experiences of queerphobia in the publishing industry, how they overcame it, and introduce their brand-new queer books. Featuring Michael Dumlao, the author of “The Wisdom of Guncles”, Anya Leigh Josephs, author of “Queen of All”, Patrick Earl Ryan, author of “If We Were Electric: Stories”, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and Stephen Salvatore, author of “Can’t Take That Away”.