Town Hall Seattle and Glory Hole Drag Collective present
Glory Hole: ReBirthday
A Drag/Art Show
Superstars of Queer Science Fiction
EVENT NOTES
Doors for this event will open at 6:30 PM. Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.
An evening of queer speculative fiction!
Whether you’re a Seattle local or you’re in town for Worldcon, enjoy readings by six authors of queer science fiction and fantasy whose work spans galaxies and realities. Featuring: Andrea Hairston, Cecilia Tan, Darcie Little Badger, Becky Chambers, and Annalee Newitz. Hosted by Charlie Jane Anders.
About Writers with Drinks
For over two decades, Charlie Jane Anders has organized this spoken word “variety show” that brings together different styles and genres, complete with her irreverent, absurdist author bios. After a Writers With Drinks show, the fabric of reality will have looser stitches and a bit more frilly lace on the edges.
About the Authors
Andrea Hairston ran away from the physics lab to the theatre when she was a young thing and has been a scientist, artiste, and hoodoo conjurer ever since. She is a novelist, poet, essayist, playwright, and L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor Emerita of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. Her novels include Mindscape, reissued by Tor, August, 2025, a Carl Brandon Award winner and finalist for the Phillip K. Dick and Otherwise Awards; Archangels of Funk; Will Do Magic For Small Change, a New York Times Editor’s pick and finalist for the Mythopoeic, Lambda, and Otherwise Awards; Redwood and Wildfire, a Washington Post Best Book of 2022, Otherwise and Carl Brandon Award winner; Master of Poisons on the 2020 Kirkus Review’s Best SF&F. Andrea bikes at night year-round, meeting bears, multi-legged creatures of light and breath, and the occasional shooting star.
Cecilia Tan is an award-winning author of passionate fiction, whom Susie Bright has described as “simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature.” Still known as the only author to have published stories in Ms. Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, and Penthouse, “ctan” (“see-tan”) is a bigender biracial bisexual who has always been a genre-bender. In addition to being the author of over 30 novels—including the Magic University series, Daron’s Guitar Chronicles, The Prince’s Boy, and The Velderet—Cecilia Tan was the founder and longtime editor of Circlet Press, specialists in queer and erotic science fiction and fantasy, which she sold in 2020. RT Book Reviews awarded her Career Achievement in Erotic Romance in 2015, and she has been inducted into the Saints and Sinners GLBT Writers and Editors Hall of Fame. Ctan accepts all pronouns but uses she/her for society’s convenience.
Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time. Elatsoe also won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist. Her second fantasy novel, A Snake Falls to Earth, received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist. Her third book, Sheine Lende, is the prequel to Elatsoe and was a USA Today bestseller.
Becky Chambers is the bestselling author of the Wayfarers series, the Monk and Robot novellas, and other works of science fiction. She is a two-time Hugo Award winner, a Locus Award winner, and has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, among others. She is currently working on a new novel in a new setting. Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, watching bugs, and looking through her telescope. She lives with her wife in Humboldt County, California, and she hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.
Annalee Newitz is a science journalist who also writes science fiction. They are the author of several bestselling books, including The Terraformers, which was nominated for the Nebula Award, and Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age. They have a monthly column in New Scientist magazine and are the co-host of the Hugo-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Their forthcoming novella is Automatic Noodle, which drops in August 2025.
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, coming August 2025 from Tor Books. Her other novels include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She’s also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes and Never Say You Can’t Survive, a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. She’s won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford, and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. And she’s currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for The Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
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