Category: Events

The Lambda Rising event was a great success! I was on a spirited panel with Redbone Press publisher Lisa C. Moore, author G. Winston James, and poet Pamela Sneed. About 30-40 people were present. The staff at Lambda Rising Bookstore asked us a few questions, mostly about publishing and writing as POC LGTB (lots of acronyms!), opened up the floor for questions for about 15 minutes. About 4 copies of Sea, Swallow Me were signed and sold.

WHAT: Black Pride Author Panel

WHEN: Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 6:30pm

WHERE: Lambda Rising Bookstore, 1625 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC 20009

WHO:

1) Lisa C. Moore

2) Craig Laurance Gidney

3) G. Winston James

4) Steven Fullwood

Around 40 people showed up for my reading/signing.  I thank them all for their support.  My publisher, Steve Berman of Lethe Press, sent me the beautiful lilies that are next to me.  I read portions of The Safety of Thorns and Her Spirit Hovering, and I read Magpie Sisters in it’s entirety.

I am completely overjoyed.

The upcoming reading/signing on Feb 19 is listed here, in the Out In DC section of the Washington Blade.

On February 19 @ 7 PM, I will be reading from and signing copies of my debut collection of short stories, “Sea, Swallow Me” at the DC Center (The DC Center, 1111 14th Street NW Suite 350) as a part of the Outwrite Author Series.

Information and reviews of the book may be found here:
https://craiglaurancegidney.wordpress.com

Also, my publisher, Lethe Press, is selling the eBook for the special price of $3.25 in celebration of African American History Month for the month of February 2009.  eBooks are available here:

http://allromanceebooks.com/product-seaswallowmeandotherstories-13601-178.html

Come hear me read at an Open Mic this Friday!

“A Bird of Ice” was a finalist for the Spectrum Award.