BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:216341@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260831T103452Z DTSTART:20260924T190000Z DTEND:20260924T210000Z SUMMARY:Equinoctial: New and Unpublished Work DESCRIPTION:RSVP TO THIS EVENT HERE\\nEquinoctial: New &\\; Unpublishe d Work celebrates the tilt of the light\\, year tipping on its axis\\, sk y creased at the perfect centre. At the intersection of the autumnal equi nox\\, harvest moon\\, &\\; her 27th birthday\\, Topaz Winters (Portra it of My Body as a Crime I’\\;m Still Committing\\, Button Poetry) g athers four writers of poetry &\\; prose to share work on the precipic e of becoming: jason b. crawford (YEET!\\, Omnidawn Publishing)\\, Caitli n Conlon (Burning the Ghost Light\\, Central Avenue Publishing)\\, Kirste n Shu-ying Chen (light waves\\, Terrapin Books)\\, &\\; Mia Arias Tsan g (Fragments of Wasted Devotion\\, Quilted Press). Before the light begin s its long walk home\\, find these writers mid-sentence\\, reading pieces still shy of final form. Nothing stays level for long. Join us while the scale still holds.\\nThere will be a signing after the event. Copies of the authors’ books will be available for purchase. \\n*\\nTopaz Winter s is the Singaporean-American author of So\\, Stranger (Button Poetry 202 2)\\, which won the Button Poetry Short Form Contest &\\; was a 2025 S ealey Challenge Pick &\\; LitBowl Best Poetry Book of 2022. Her debut poetry collection\\, Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committin g (Button Poetry 2019 &\\; 2024)\\, was a finalist in the Broken River &\\; Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prizes. Topaz’s poetry\\, fiction &\\ ; nonfiction are published in The Drift\\, Waxwing\\, Passages North\\, P ithead Chapel\\, Foglifter\\, &\\; others. Her work has received suppo rt from the Studios at MASS MoCA\\, the Sundress Academy for the Arts\\, &\\; the National YoungArts Foundation. She serves as the editor-in-ch ief at Half Mystic Press &\\; lives between New York &\\; Singapore .\\nCaitlin Conlon is the Pushcart-nominated author of Burning the Ghost Light (2025) and The Surrender Theory (2022). She has a BA in English and a Creative Writing Certificate from the University at Buffalo. While the re\\, she was chosen for the Friends of the University Libraries Undergra duate Poetry Prize\\, and the Arthur Axlerod Memorial Prize for Poetry. H er writing and literary reviews have appeared or are forthcoming with Eun oia Review\\, Gather\\, Anti-Heroin Chic\\, and Rust + Moth\\, among othe rs. She’s @cgcpoems almost everywhere.\\nKirsten Shu-ying Chen was born and raised at the Jersey Shore. She is the author of the poetry collecti on light waves by Terrapin Books. A MacDowell fellow\\, Chen was also a f inalist for the Autumn House Press Chapbook Prize and the Tomaz Salamun C hapbook Prize\\, among others. Her writing can be found in Adroit Journal \\, Bear Review\\, Washington Writers Publishing House\\, The New York Ti mes\\, and more. https://kirstenshuyingchen.com/\\nMia Arias Tsang is a w riter based in New York City. Her work explores how queer people try and fail to love each other. Her first collection\\, Fragments of Wasted Devo tion\\, is out now with Quilted Press. She lives in Queens with her cat\\ , Peanut\\, and is working on a novel. \\njason b. crawford is a queer p oet. They are the author of YEET! (Omnidawn\\, 2025)\\, winner of the Lam bda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Poetry\\, and Year of the Unicorn Kidz (Sun dress Publications\\, 2022). A Lambda Literary Fellow\\, crawford was bor n in Washington\\, D.C.\\, and raised in Lansing\\, Michigan.\\nThe Burea u of General Services—Queer Division is Manhattan’s only queer bookst ore\\, located on the second floor of the LGBT Center. We’re open Tuesd ay-Sunday from 1-7pm. Our cafe\\, The Bureau Café\\, is open Tuesday-Sun day from 9am-7pm. \\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new -york/events/equinoctial-new-and-unpublished-work-2026-09-24 LOCATION:Bureau of General Services-Queer Division URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/new-york/events/equinoctial-new-and-unpublished-work-2026-09-24 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR