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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Immortal Game by Allison Saft (in convo with Rachael Lippincott)
DESCRIPTION:Allison Saft comes to Pittsburgh on tour for her newest sapphic fantasy novel! Join in-store or online. \nGeneral admission: $25.31\nThis ticket includes entry to the in-store event plus a signed hardcover copy of IMMORTAL GAME \nLivestream: $0\nSIGN UP FOR LIVESTREAM: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xPoi7y7qTuaDiVpi2CdJtg \nAbout the Book\n\nSix years ago\, Shea Fury’s sister was whisked away by the High King of the Otherworld\, the ruler of the treacherous land of fae. Although Shea has spent the years since dreaming of rescuing her sister from captivity\, the Iron Veil that separates the human world from the fae has made it only a wish. That is\, until an invitation to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime chess tournament in the Otherworld arrives on Shea’s doorstep. The winner of the tournament may ask the High King to grant one wish and Shea’s is finally within reach. \nBut entering the tournament and winning it are two different feats. Dark magic lurks around every corner in the Otherworld and her cutthroat opponents are willing to bend the rules to make their own wishes come true. To make it to the end – and to find her sister – Shea is forced to strike an alliance with her longtime rival\, the sharply beautiful fae princess\, Ciara of Bri Leith. One wrong move\, though\, and Shea may lose more than just the competition. She’ll lose her sister\, her dignity\, and maybe even her life. \nIn Immortal Game\, Allison Saft has written a high-stakes sapphic love story brimming with competitive tension\, set against a lush Irish folklore-inspired fantasy world.
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/book-launch-immortal-game-by-allison-saft-with-rachael-lippincott/
LOCATION:White Whale Books & Coffee\, 4754 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15224\, United States
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SUMMARY:meTamorphosis Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join us at meTamorphosis and support emerging local LGBTQ+ writers! Created by White Whale’s events coordinator\, Amari\, meTamorphosis is a local queer & trans led event series committed to uplifting emerging LGBTQ+ writers by curating inclusive community readings in Pittsburgh\, PA. meTamorphosis celebrates queer & trans people’s commitment to ongoing transformation and embracing change to become who they know themselves to be. \nmeTamorphosis is excited to offer a QUEER OPEN MIC NIGHT! Sign-ups begin at 6:30pm and LGBTQIA+ readers can share up to 5 mins of their original work. We can host up to 10 readers. \nWe are grateful to host drag artist Sue Flay for an opening performance and DJ TIZA for a dance & mingle party following the reading. \nFriday\, July 31st\n7pm-9pm \nWhite Whale Bookstore\n4754 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA \nZoom Livestream Available! \nAbout the organizer:\nAMARI ONYX is a Black trans poet & artist based in Pittsburgh\, PA. Poetry\, art\, and community sustain his existence\, which inspired the creation of meTamorphosis in 2024. His work has appeared in Black Warrior Review and The Shade Journal and is set to appear in Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora and Callaloo. Amari is an editor working within\, across\, and between genres for 3 Sisters journal. He is a proud trans vogue femme.
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/metamorphosis-open-mic-night/
LOCATION:White Whale Books & Coffee\, 4754 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15224\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading & Conversation:Fearless\, Sleepless\, Deathless by Maria Pinto (with Almah LaVon)
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to collaborate with The Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project to host author and mycophile\, Maria Pinto at White Whale for a lively reading and conversation about her award-winning book\, Fearless\, Sleepless\, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment\, Poison\, Ecology\, Hidden Histories\, Zombies\, and Black Survival. This is a collaborative event with the support of Black Unicorn Library\, Cutting Root Farm\, and Write Pittsburgh\, hosted by local artist\, librarian\, and educator\, Bekezela Mguni. Maria Pinto will be joined in conversation by local writer and fairy marsh monster\, Almah LaVon. \n\n\n\n\nNaturalist\, forager\, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage\, research\, memoir\, and nature writing\, touching on topics that range from Black farmers’ domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the possibility that enslaved people wielded mycological poisons against their enslavers. Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history. Every page sings with her enthusiasm for the networks in which we are embedded: fungal\, ecological\, ancestral\, and communal. Join her in pursuit of beautiful\, perplexing\, delicious\, and deadly mushrooms as she explores this understudied kingdom’s awe-inspiring diversity and discovers how fungi have been used by people\, especially those on the margins\, for survival\, pleasure\, revelation\, and revolution. \nBEKEZELA MGUNI is a queer Trinidadian artist\, cultural worker\, and librarian. She serves as the Artistic Director of Dreams of Hope\, which provides the region’s LGBTQIA+ youth with a welcoming environment to grow in confidence\, express themselves\, and develop as leaders through the arts. She is a steward of the PGH Flower Library and the founder of The Black Unicorn Library and Archive Project\, a community initiative cultivating libraries as sites of possibility and freedom. \nALMAH LAVON (theyy/themme) is an AfroPrismatic creature of myth rumored to wander among the squonk haunting the Allegheny National Forest. Their writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Autostraddle\, Feminist Wire\, and The Black Femme Collective\, with their biomythographical work surfacing in the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology\, does your mama know? (revised edition). Their creative nonfiction has been published in Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries and Black Quantum Futurism Vol. 1 as well as many other anthologies and publications. Their fiction can be found in Black from the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing; Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness; the Berlin-based DADDY Magazine; and Harvard Divinity School’s Peripheries Journal\, among others. \nWhen she’s not in the woods (and sometimes when she is)\, MARIA PINTO is a writer\, editor\, and educator. She teaches writing for various literary organizations. She reads fiction for Peripheries Journal and serves on the board of Hale\, an outdoor education and land conservancy nonprofit. Her writing has been supported by Assets for Artists at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art\, Oak Spring Garden Foundation\, Vermont Studio Center\, the Mass Cultural Council\, the Writers’ Room of Boston\, The Mastheads\, and The Garrett on the Green. Her fiction has appeared in Obsidian\, Frigg\, and Necessary Fiction\, among other publications\, and her nonfiction can be found in Science\, Orion Magazine\, LitHub\, Longreads\, Arnoldia\, and Mushroom People. Maria has spoken about foraging\, food autonomy\, and fungal poetry\, among other topics via Bust Magazine\, NPR stations WGBH\, WBUR\, and WAMC\, PBS’s Poetry in America\, the website Public Lands\, and podcasts including unladylike. She has led workshops and given lectures for the North American Mycological Association\, Northeast Mycological Federation\, New York Mycological Society\, Central Texas Mycological Society\, Sonoma County Mycological Association\, Wisconsin Mycological Society\, Telluride Mushroom Festival\, Boston Center for the Arts\, and Print Ain’t Dead\, which published her zine for beginning mushroom hunters. She leads regular mycological forays at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum.
URL:https://qburgh.com/event/reading-conversationfearless-sleepless-deathless-by-maria-pinto-with-almah-lavon/
LOCATION:White Whale Books & Coffee\, 4754 Liberty Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15224\, United States
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