Anthologies
Emerge: 2023 Lambda Fellows Anthology (2024)
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The Emerge Anthology is a collection of work from Lambda Literary's Retreat Fellows, exhibiting literary work in 7 genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult Fiction, Poetry, Screenwriting, Playwriting, and Speculative Fiction. It is meant to showcase the vast talent of the Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices and to serve as an archive for this special once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Established in 2007, The Writers Retreat is an unparalleled opportunity to be mentored by the very best LGBTQ writers, develop one's craft, make connections with publishing industry professionals, and build a strong community of peers.
Lambda's Fellows are the writers who go on to show the world that queer stories need to be told, that people will drink them up like water. Phillip B. Williams, 2023 Retreat Poetry Faculty, who penned the introduction to the 2023 Emerge, reminisced on the Retreat's nightly reading series in the opening of this anthology: “ I remember sitting in the audience each night during fellow readings, wondering how I got to be so lucky to live to see the day that LGBTQQIA (did I get us all?) writers would speak our truth and mythology with such velocity and flame. And that I got to be there. And that you get to witness a taste of what held us all.”
Within the 500 pages of the 2023 Emerge Anthology, we represent 76 of the most talented queer emerging and emerged writers. We hope this small taste, this small drink, nourishes you as much as it did us.
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Jennifer Thuy Vi Nguyen is a queer, Vietnamese American non- fiction writer who splices essays with jest and graphics. Her work has appeared in Foglifter, the Ponder Review, and New Rivers Press as the winner of the American Fiction Award. You can find her on Instagram at @jennifervinguyen.
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Emerge: 2022 Lambda Fellows Anthology (2023)
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This anthology is a collection of literary work from the 2022 Lambda Literary Fellows in Fiction, Nonfiction, Young Adult Fiction, Screenwriting, Speculative Fiction, Poetry, and Playwriting. The Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices was established in 2007 and is the first of its kind ever offered to LGBTQ writers: a one-week intensive immersion in fiction, nonfiction, young adult fiction, screenwriting, speculative fiction, poetry, and playwriting. The Retreat is an unparalleled opportunity to be mentored by the very best writers in our community, to develop one's craft, make connections with publishing industry professionals and build a strong community of peers. Over 50 writers are included.
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Shelby Pinkham (she/they) is a Chicanx, queer, bipolar poet from the Central Valley. Their work hopes to dismantle archives that honor institutions, systems, and policies before people; a visual poetix comprised of collage, paint, and text. Their writing has appeared in Pank, Honey Literary, Flies, Cockroaches, and Poets, and elsewhere. They were a runner-up in Poetry Online’s 2021 Launch Prize and placed second in the 2019 Betty Creative Writing Awards. They earned an MA from Cal State Bakersfield and an MFA from Fresno State. They work as an editor for the Kern County literary journal Rabid Oak and as an educator at Clovis Community College. You can find them on Instagram (@pinkhamshelby).
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Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022)
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This anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world.
The anthology features poets including Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Blanco, Kay Ryan, Jericho Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Natalie Diaz, and June Jordan, as well as emerging voices such as Jari Bradley, Alicia Mountain, Eric Tran, and Jim Whiteside. To see the full list of contributing poets, please see the table of contents here.
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Michael Walsh is the author of poetry books including The Dirt Riddles and Creep Love, as well as two chapbooks: Adam Walking the Garden and Sleepwalks. His poems and stories have appeared in journals such as The Journal, Chattahoochee Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Great River Review, North Dakota Quarterly, and Prairie Schooner. He lives in Minneapolis and works as a curriculum administrator at the University of Minnesota.
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My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops As Radical Digital Media Literacy Given the Fact of Fake News (2022)
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This book of poems about fake news written by diverse project participants is foremost an invitation and invocation for readers to participate, with others, in an experiment in knowing and working differently with the internet: Fake News Poetry Workshops. Between 2018 and 2020, Alexandra Juhasz directed more than twenty of these workshops around the world, and these are ongoing beyond the confines of this book. Each differs in form and structure, but participants are always asked to attend to research, their own knowledge about the internet and social media, and what they can learn from their workshop and previous ones.
My Phone Lies to Me shares the poems created in the workshops. As moving, eloquent, and useful as they may be — and you are invited to indulge in and learn from them — enjoying and learning from the poems is only a small part of this book’s project. Four short essays (two by Juhasz, with a foreword and afterword by critical internet scholars Tara McPherson and Margaret Rhee, respectively) introduce and situate the project’s processes of radical digital media. You can learn what Fake News Poetry Workshops make, do, and believe in, as well as how to collaborate with others to create your own.
Fake News Poetry Workshops are one way to counter dominant and dominating internet modes and values, to fight the corrupt ways of being and knowing that use digital media to create, fuel, and weaponize fake news. The project verifies good news in the face of fake news: that we can gather together in our many local places and use analog structures (about digital things and ways) to generate, hold, and share “art answers to phony questions.”
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Alexandra Juhasz is a Distinguished Professor of Film at Brooklyn College, CUNY. She makes and studies committed media practices that contribute to political change and individual and community growth.
She is the prolific author and editor of scholarly books on AIDS, including AIDS TV (Duke, 1995) and, with Ted Kerr, We Are Having This Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (Duke, 2022). On fake (and real) documentaries, she has published, with Alisa Lebow, The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Documentary (Blackwell, 2015) and with Nishant Shah and Ganaele Langlois, Really Fake (Minnesota, 2021). On the subject of YouTube, she authored Learning from YouTube (MIT, 2013), and on black lesbian filmmaking, with Yvonne Welbon, she is the editor of Sisters in the Life: 25 Years of African-American Lesbian Filmmaking (Duke, 2018).
She is the producer of educational videotapes on feminist issues from AIDS to teen pregnancy as well as the feature fake documentaries The Watermelon Woman (dir. Cheryl Dunye, 1996) and The Owls (dir. Cheryl Dunye, 2010).
She also writes about her cultural and political commitments in more public platforms, including Hyperallergic, BOMB, MS, X-tra, and Lamda Literary Review.
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88 Open Essays – A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric (2019)
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Original Introduction by Tina Ulrich
This collection grew out of my work as a librarian with English instructors at Northwestern Michigan College as they struggled to adapt their composition courses to use Open Educational Resources in order to save their students the cost of an expensive commercial textbook. Composition textbooks include samples of writing that are copyrighted and cannot be printed or shared. This collection is intended to provide instructors with a wide variety of nonfiction examples of good writing that they can use to teach composition.
A smaller collection was my final project for the Creative Commons Librarian Certificate program which I completed in March of 2019.
These essays were collected from online magazines that offer their articles under Creative Commons licenses. A few are from individual authors who generously agreed to give their work an open license in order to share it for this collection.
Each essay has its own license (see Licenses and Permissions for details) but all essays can be shared, copied, printed, and distributed. We consciously created the collection as a Google Doc rather than as a PDF or Word document so that it can be easily shared, linked to, copied, downloaded, and edited without the use of proprietary programs. We envision instructors choosing the essays they want to use, renumbering them, and copying them into customized collections chosen especially for their students.
Message to Instructors by Sarah Wangler
We set out to create this anthology to provide a free and open resource to composition instructors and students, full of essays that could supplement OER rhetoric and writing texts that lacked readings. Over time, however, we came to see that this anthology, and its editors, subscribe to the notion, presented by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in her 2009 TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story” (included in this book), that “we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story… we regain a kind of paradise.” That is, this anthology is designed to work for as many different rhetorical situations as college writing students might find themselves in.
All of the essays in this reader are versatile rhetorically and thematically; they’re impossible to pigeon-hole, and we wouldn’t want to. Instead, this anthology is set up alphabetically by author name. Each essay has a series of hashtags we think apply to the essay in some way. You can search for essays thematically that relate to topics like education, the environment, politics, health, heroes, etc.. You can also search for essays based on whether we see them as displaying composition concepts like analysis, synthesis, and research. You can search for essays that are based on shared values, essays that rely heavily on ethos, logos, or pathos, essays that are very kairos-dependent, and even essays that are scholarly.
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Sarah Wangler, English Instructor at Northwestern Michigan College: I am a full time faculty member at NMC and I serve as the current Policy Council chair. My teaching and research interests include OER, digital and multi-modal composition, mythology, folklore, poetry, creative writing, information literacy, and collaborative learning. I also work as a freelance copy-editor and serve as a reader for the Dunes Review and Michigan Writers chapbook competition.
Tina Ulrich became Northwestern Michigan College's Osterlin Library's fifth library director in the spring of 2009. Under Ulrich’s leadership, a grassroots movement encouraging Open Education Resource adoption grew at NMC, with over 40 course adoptions and an estimated $1,257,200 saved in textbook costs for students by 2018. During her tenure the library redesigned its website as an integral part of the new web design initiative at NMC and implemented a new web-scale discovery service, allowing patrons to access a breadth of library materials from a single search. The library expanded offerings to include loaner laptops, course texts and a collection of books for leisure reading.
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Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (2018)
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In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions as diverse in style and form, as the experiences of QPOC in the United States.
Now, Nepantla will appear for the first time in print as a survey of poetry by queer poets of color throughout U.S. history, including literary legends such as Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Ai, and Pat Parker alongside contemporaries such as Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Robin Coste Lewis, Joy Harjo, Richard Blanco, Erika L. Sánchez, Jericho Brown, Carl Phillips, Tommy Pico, Eduardo C. Corral, Chen Chen, and more!
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Christopher Soto (b. 1991, Los Angeles) is a poet based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016) and the editor of Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018). For more information visit christophersoto-poet.com
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