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People Round-Up, Mid-April 2023

April 24, 2023

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At Penguin Random House, Carisa Hays will be leaving her role as publicity director. Following the retirements of Subsidiary Rights VP Leigh Butler and VPHal Fessenden, Tom Dussel will lead the team in the new role of VP, director, subrights, reporting to Allison Dobson at Penguin Publishing Group. Sabila Khan will lead the foreign rights team as VP, subrights, reporting to Dussel. She will also be responsible for selling foreign rights for Viking, Penguin, Dutton, and Tarcher Perigee. Will Anderson joins WaterBrook and Multnomah as senior editor. He has worked as a freelance writer and editor and a pastor. At Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Andrew Unger has joined as business manager. He was most recently retail sales manager/digital strategy specialist at Grove Atlantic. At Random House Children’s Books, Joey Ho has been promoted to publicist.

Emma Brodie has joined Chronicle as an executive editor. She was previously at Little, Brown’s Voracious. Sonya Harris has joined Chronicle as senior sales manager for special sales. At Little, Brown’s Children, Sadie Trombetta will join as publicity manager. She was most recently publicity manager at Interlink Books. Dana Canedy will join The Guardian US as Managing Editor on April 24. She was most recently SVP and Publisher at Simon & Schuster.

At William Morrow/Avon, VP, executive editor Lucia Macro will retire on June 23.

At Baker & Taylor Publisher Services, Tim McCall has joined as trade sales director. He was most recently at TA-DA! Language Productions.

Jenny Xu joins Atria as senior editor. She was previously at HarperCollins.

At Macmillan, Kelly Collins has joined as VP, communications and community. She was previously global head of internal communications at cybersecurity firm Synk.

Drew Anderla has joined as an associate editor at Apollo Publishers.

Brianna Skelly has joined Scholastic as editorial assistant.

PROMOTIONS

At Penguin Publishing Group, Tawanna Sullivan has been promoted to senior director and will continue to sell foreign and domestic rights for Berkley. Senior associate Emilie Mills will report to Sullivan and handle F+W and select emerging markets. Ritsuko Okumura has been promoted to senior director and will sell foreign rights for Putnam, Avery, and Portfolio, reporting to Khan. Also reporting to Khan are Jillian Fata, who has been promoted to senior manager and support sales for Dutton and Tarcher Perigee, and sell rights for Zeitgeist and select emerging markets; and Julie Lubwama, who has been promoted to subrights associate. At Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May Choy has been promoted to vp & senior director, strategy & finance. Emily Reardon has been promoted to assistant director of publicity at Knopf. Sal Ruggiero has been promoted to assistant director, foreign and subsidiary rights. Julie Ertl has been promoted to assistant publicity director at Vintage Anchor. Morgan Hamilton, Izzy Meyers, and Sarah Perrin have been promoted to assistant editor at Knopf.

At Hanover Square Press, John Glynn has been promoted to executive editor.

At Simon & Schuster, Cat Boyd and Brianna Scharfenberg have been promoted to assistant director of publicity.

Macmillan announced a number of promotions. Justin Blackman to senior manager, business systems. Rob Acosta to manager, technical support on the technology team. Andrew Arens to manager, technical customer support on the platform development team. Janel Brown to managing editor on the trade managing editorial team. Dylan Dobrenis to manager, inventory management on the supply chain team.

At Chronicle, Nora Aoyagi has been promoted to senior designer for Petit Collage.

Cecilia Lyra has been promoted to literary agent at P.S. Literary Agency.

Dawn Adams has been promoted to senior art director at Sourcebooks. Annie Berger has been promoted to executive editor. Madeleine Brown has been promoted to senior marketing associate. Michelle Mayhall has been promoted to senior book designer. Brittany Vibbert has been promoted to associate creative director, calendars & gift. John Aardema has been promoted to senior art director. Rachel Gilmer has been promoted to associate editor at sourcebooks. Jenny Lopez has been promoted to assistant editor, kids and YA. Jocelyn Travis has been promoted to assistant editor. Anna Venckus has been promoted to marketing associate. Katie Stutz has been promoted to assistant marketing manager for Bloom Books and Sourcebooks Casablanca.

At Grove Atlantic, Emily Burns has been promoted to associate editor. Rachel Gilman has been promoted to sales and marketing associate.

Alison Schwartz, a former literary agent turned startup co-founder, joined Gotham Ghostwriters as its chief operating officer.

DULY NOTED

Ulysses Press has acquired VeloPress in a deal that will bring about 80 books in the health and fitness category to the indie press. Ulysses plans to continue to add books under the Velo imprint with a goal of 12 titles for 2024.

Michael Denneny, who worked as an editor for 35 years at Macmillan, St. Martin’s Press, and Crown Publishing passed away on April 12th. He was 80. Denneny is recognized as an “LGBTQ publishing icon” as PW noted.

Rick Wolff, longtime editor and sports broadcaster, and book editor at Hachette, HMH and elsewhere, died on April 10 following a brief battle with brain cancer. He was 71.

EVENTS

April 19-23
Texas Library Association Conference
Austin, TX

April 21-23
Livre Paris
Paris, France

April 21-24
Unbound Book Festival
Columbia, MO

April 22
The Self-Publishing Conference
Leicester, UK

April 22-23
L.A. Times Festival of Books
Los Angeles, CA

April 27-May 15
Buenos Aires Book Fair
Buenos Aires, Argentina

April 27-30
Calgary Expo
Calgary, AB

April 27-30
Leipzig Book Fair
Leipzig, Germany

April 27-30
New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
New York, NY

April 28-30
Malice Domestic
Bethesda, MD

April 28-30
Newburyport Literary Festival
Newburyport, MA

April 29
YALLWEST
Santa Monica, CA

May 3-14
Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival
Sharjah, UAE

May 4-6
IBPA Publishing University
San Diego, CA

May 6
Hudson Children’s Book Festival
Hudson, NY

May 6-7
Bay Area Book Festival
San Francisco Bay Area

May 22-25
U.S Book Show
New York, NY

Posted in Book View • Tagged Alison Schwartz, Allison Dobson, Andrew Arens, Andrew Unger, Anna Venckus, Annie Berger, Apollo Publishers, Atria, Avery, Baker & Taylor Publisher Services, Berkley, Bloom Books, Brianna Scharfenberg, Brianna Skelly, Brittany Vibbert, Brown’s Children, Carisa Hays, Cat Boyd, Cecilia Lyra, Chronicle, Crown Publishing, Dana Canedy, Dawn Adams, Drew Anderla, Dutton, Dylan Dobrenis, Emilie Mills, Emily Burns, Emily Reardon, Emma Brodie, Gotham Ghostwriters, Grove Atlantic, Hanover Square Press, HarperCollins, Interlink Books, Izzy Meyers, Janel Brown, Jenny Lopez, Jenny Xu, Jillian Fata, Jocelyn Travis, Joey Ho, John Aardema, John Glynn, Julie Ertl, Julie Lubwama, Justin Blackman, Katie Stutz, Kelly Collins, Khan, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Little, Lucia Macro, Macmillan, Madeleine Brown, May Choy, Michael Denneny, Michelle Mayhall, Morgan Hamilton, Multnomah, Nora Aoyagi, P.S. Literary Agency, Penguin, Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Random House, Portfolio, Putnam, Rachel Gilman, Rachel Gilmer, Random House Children's Books, Rick Wolff, Ritsuko Okumura, Rob Acosta, Sabila Khan, Sadie Trombetta, Sal Ruggiero, Sarah Perrin, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Sonya Harris, Sourcebooks, Sourcebooks Casablanca, St. Martin's Press, Synk, Ta-Da! Language Productions, Tarcher Perigee, Tawanna Sullivan, The Guardian US, Tim McCall, Tom Dussel, Ulysses Press, VeloPress, Viking, Vintage Anchor, WaterBrook, Will Anderson, William Morrow/Avon, Zeitgeist

People Round-Up, Early April 2023

By PT Editors

April 6, 2023

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At Open Road Integrated Media, Robert Zaffiris has been named CFO/COO, succeeding Charles Gallagher. Zaffiris was previously DFO/COO, Consumer and Technology Group at HarperCollins.

ReedPop President Lance Festerman is leaving the company. He was a former director of BookExpo America and New York Comic Con.

At Macmillan, joins as VP of Strategy and Investments. Kleopatra Benyam, formerly Senior Director of Finance at Ralph Lauren, joins as Director of Finance. Cassie Gutman joins as Senior Production Editor; she had worked previously as Senior Production Editor at Sourcebooks. Sunanda Movva joins as Senior Business Analyst. Eric Chapman, formerly Senior Front-End Engineer at Wellthy, joins as Principal Front-End Engineer. Katy DiRienzo, formerly Production Coordinator at Penguin Publishing Group, joins as Reprint Production Manager. Sierra Moon joins as Junior Analyst.

Leigh Butler, SVP, and Hal Fassenden, VP, Director of Subsidiary Rights, are retiring from Penguin Publishing Group after forty-five and thirty-six years, respectively. Jane O’Connor, VP and Editor-at-Large at Grosset & Dunlap, is retiring this month after thirty-three years with Penguin. Rachel Klayman is stepping down as VP and Executive Editor at Crown Publishers.

Christopher M. Finan, Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), is retiring this summer. A search for his successor is underway.

At Hachette Book Group, Carolyn Pittis joins as Director, Enterprise Transformation. She was most recently VP, Operations at Sterling Publishing.

At Ecco, Cordelia Calvert joins as Director of Publicity. Previously she was Publicity Director at Liveright. Danielle Dieterich, lately Editor at Putnam, joins William Morrow as Senior Editor. Kalie Barnes-Young joins Morrow as Assistant Marketing Manager.

Leigh Haber joins Zibby Media as Strategic Advisor. She was formerly Editorial Director of Oprah’s Book Club and Books Editor for O Magazine.

Adam Philips, previously Director of Marketing at Dynamite Entertainment, joins AWA Studios as Director of Sales and Trade Marketing.

Laurie Rosatone joins Guilford Press as Editor-in-Chief, succeeding co-founder Seymour Weingarten. Most recently she was Division Director of Curriculum, Digital Media, and Communications at the Smithsonian Science Education Center.

At Monkfish Publishing, author and publishing veteran Jon M. Sweeney will join as Partner and Associate Publisher on May 1.

In agency news…Jana Hanson, formerly Agent at Metamorphosis Literary Agency, joins D4EO Literary Agency as Agent. Allison Devereux joins Trellis Literary Management as Agent; she was previously Agent and Foreign Rights Director at the Cheney Agency.

At Kevin Anderson & Associates, Linda Alila joins as Senior Editor. Previously she was Editor at HarperCollins Leadership.

Gabrielle Minassian joins Insight Editions as Senior Marketing Analyst. Previously she was Senior Data Analyst at Callisto Media. John Schork, previously Senior Public Relations Manager at Unity, joins as Publicity Manager.

At Scholastic, Lora Wanta, formerly Operations Coordinator at WorldStrides, joins as Trade Digital Workflow Associate.

Anna Goolsby joins Dreamscape Media as Content Marketing Specialist.

At Baker & Taylor Publishing Services, Jerry Carrillo Ortiz joins as Sales Rep for publishers in Latin America and the Caribbean.

April Roberts joins Chronicle as Associate Publicist, and Jonah Thedorff joins as Sales Coordinator.

At Pixel+Ink, Lindsay Warren, previously Assistant Editor at Candlewick, joins as Assistant Editor.

Jessica Ogg joins Sourcebooks as Senior Royalties Accounting Manager.

At ReaderLink Distribution Services, Olivia Manning joins as Omni Sales Support Coordinator; Lauren Dykier, as Sales Coordinator; Godwin Izekor, as Lead Database Administrator; and Jason Brickett, as Supply Planner 1.

Writer Becca Rothfield joins the Washington Post as Book Critic on April 10. Sophia Nguyen joins the paper’s Book World vertical as News and Features Writer, moving over from the national politics desk, where she was Features Editor.

At Granta, writer and editor Thomas Meaney will start as Editor in mid-April.

Writer Elliott Holt has joined The Yale Review as Deputy Editor.

At Ploughshares, Ellen Duffer is leaving her position as Managing Editor and Blog Editor and can be contacted at ellenduffer@gmail.com.

At The New York Times, Neima Jahromi joins as Preview Editor on April 17. H was previously Fact Checker at The New Yorker.

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Finan, Chronicle, Claire Beyette, Claire Gamble, Claire Gilhuly, Claire McLaughlin, Colin Rolfe, ComicsArts, Commonwealth Editions, Conor Mintzer, Cordelia Calvert, Courtney Code, Crown Publishers, D4EO Literary Agency, Dan Fingerman, Dana Cuadrado, Danielle (Fiorella) Christopher, Danielle Dieterich, David Howe, Deanna Bailey, Destiny Abuzir, Dey Street Books, DJ DeSmyter, Doubleday, Dreamscape Media, Dutton, Dynamite Entertainment, Ecco, Elissa Flanigan, Eliza Rosenberry, Elizabeth Blue Guess, Ellen Duffer, Elliott Holt, Emily Eakin, Emily Feinberg, Eric Chapman, Eric Klopfer, Erin Cain, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Feiwel and Friends, FinePrint Literary Management, First Second, Flamingo Books, Flatiron, Forever, Foyinsi Adegbonmire, Francesca Begos, Gabrielle Minassian, Godwin Izekor, Grand Central Publishing, Granta, Grosset & Dunlap, Guilford Press, Hachette Book Group, Hachette Books, Hachette Go, Hachette Nashville, Hal Fassenden, Hannah DiPietro, Hannah Koerner, Hannah Phillips, Harini Munikrishnan, Harlequin, Harper, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Leadership, Heather Allen, Heidi Richter, Helen Lee, Helen Rouner, Henry Holt & Co., Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Hillary Tisman, Holiday House, Hudson Children’s Book Festival, IBPA Publishing University, Insight Editions, IPG, Isa Caban, Jaisa Pinnock, Jana Hanson, Jane O’Connor, Janetta Dancer, Jason Brickett, Jason Moon, Jay Salton, Jeff Gaita, Jeff LaSala, Jerry Carrillo Ortiz, Jessica Lakatos, Jessica Ogg, Johanna Zwirner, John Schork, John Schulz, Jon M. Sweeney, Jonah Thedorff, Jordan Winch, Junessa Viloria, Kalie Barnes-Young, Karen Swenar, Kate Brown, Kate Farrell, Kathy Wielgosz, Katie Bassel, Katie Campbell, Katy DiRienzo, Kelly Cronin, Kelly Stone, Keri Haddrill, Kevin Anderson & Associates, Kim Lindman, Kim Tatum, Kirk Benshoff, Kleopatra Benyam, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Kukuwa Ashun, L.A. Times Festival of Books, Lance Festerman, Laura Fernandez, Lauren Bieker, Lauren Chin, Lauren Dykier, Lauren Rosenthal, Laurie Rosatone, Leigh Butler, Leigh Haber, Leipzig Book Fair, Liana Stillman, Lianna Culp, Lillian Sun, Lin Miceli, Linda Alila, Lindsay Warren, Lisa Gallagher, Little Brown Children’s, Liveright, Livre Paris, London Book Fair, Lora Wanta, Lori Kusatzky, Lorna Henry, Louis Grilli, Lucy Medrich, Macmillan, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Maddy Wong, Malice Domestic, Manuel Sansigre, Mara Delgado-Sanchez, Maria B. Campbell Associates, Maria Modugno, Mariner Books, Marisa Melendez, Martha Bucci, Mary Anne Thompson Associates, Matt DeMazza, Matt Hooban, McKenzie Copland, Medina Cekovic, Megan Evans, Megan Smith, Meghan Harrington, Melissa Veronesi, Metamorphosis Literary Agency, Michael Jones, Michelle Cashman, Michelle Foytek, Miriam Gordis, MJ Franklin, Monkfish Publishing, Morrow Group, Naomi Silverio, National Coalition Against Censorship, NCAC, Neil Harrington, Neima Jahromi, New York Comic Con, New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, New York University, Newburyport Literary Festival, Nick Rourke, Nicolás Ore-Giron, Nicole Fox, Niyati Patel, NYU Advanced Publishing Institute, O Magazine, Olivia Manning, Olya Kirilyuk, Open Road Integrated Media, Oprah's Book Club, Pam Osti, Peachtree, Penguin Press, Penguin Publishing Group, Penguin Random House, Penguin Young Readers, Perseus, Peter Hubbard, Picador, Pixel+Ink, Ploughshares, Plumleaf Press, Putnam, Quarto Group, Quebec International Book Fair, Quirk Books, Rachel Klayman, Rachel Levenberg, Ralph Lauren, Random House Studio, Readerlink Distribution Services, Rebecca Caine, Rebecca Gyllenhaal, ReedPop, Rick Garnett, Rise x Penguin Workshop, Roaring Brook, Robert Zaffiris, Rory Sullivan, Rose Sheehan, Ryan Cunningham, Sallie Lotz, Samia Fakih, San Antonio Book Fair, Sara Vitale, Sarah Masterson Hally, Sarah Thegeby, SBR Media, Scholastic, Scott Auerbach, Serena Knudson, Seymour Weingarten, Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, Shawn Foster, Sierra Moon, Smithsonian Science Education Center, Sophia Nguyen, Sourcebooks, Sourcebooks Kids, Soyolmaa Lkhagvadorj, St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin's Paperbacks, St. Martin's Press, Staci Burt, Sterling Publishing, Stonesong, Sunanda Movva, Sunny Lee, Susan Eberhart, Talia Behrend-Wilcox, Tara Sharma, Tavia Kowalchuk, Taylor Parker-Means, Taylor Turkington, Texas Library Association Conference, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Self-Publishing Conference, The Yale Review, Thomas Colligan, Thomas Meaney, Tiffany Porcelli, Tim Demers, Tishana Knight, Tor Publishing Group, Trellis Literary Management, Trish McNamara O’Neill, Unbound Book Festival, Unity, University of Toronto Press Distribution, Vanessa Aguirre, Vanessa Navarrete, Washington Post, Wednesday Books, Wellthy, Wendy Cebellos, William Morrow, Witt Phillips, Workman Kids, WorldStrides, Yale Publishing Course, YALLWEST, Yasmin Mathew, Yvonne Ye, Zach Honey, Zachary Lutz, Zibby Media

International Bestsellers, March 2023

By Nina Sabak

April 3, 2023

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Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: Argentina and Turkey. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the original. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”. The lists are taken from major newspapers or national retailers, which are noted at the bottom of each list.

Download the full list as a PDF here.

Posted in International • Tagged A Cat A Man A Death, A Love Story, A Thousand Boy Kisses, Agatha Christie, Ahmet Ümit, Alice Kellen, Alicia Gimenez Bartlett, Arnaldur Indridason, Aurelie Valognes, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Better, Between Worlds, Bonnie Garmus, Carrie Leighton, Children of the Fable, Claudia Piñeiro, Colleen Hoover, Cristina Cassar Scalia, Dilek Görmez, Elvira Lindo, Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Ewald Arenz, Fernando Aramburu, Francesca Giannone, Frankie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Rolón, Giuliano da Empoli, Goodbye Dog, Homecoming, Hugo Alconada Mon, I Don't Apologize to Love, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, I Was Just Loving You, In the Lion's Den, In the Mists of Capelans, Isabel Allende, It Ends With Us, It Starts With Us, Javier Castillo, Joana Marcús, Joanne Greenberg, Jochen Gutsch, Jojo Moyes, Juan Jose Millas, Judith Hermann, Juli Zeh, Just Smoke, Kate Morton, Kilometer Zero, Lessons in Chemistry, Look At Me and Kiss Me, Love in the Time of Cholera, Love on Bad Days, Lucía Numer Bellomi, Maggie O'Farrell, Marc Elsberg, Martin Suter, Matt Haig, Maud Ankaoua, Maxim Leo, Megan Maxwell, Mélissa Da Costa, Melody, Michel Bussi, Murder on the Orient Express, New Babel, Niccolò Ammaniti, No Longer Human, Oliver Norek, Orhan Pamuk, Osamu Dazai, Paolo Cognetti, Peter Cameron, Phantom Pains, Pierre Lemaitre, Rosella Postorino, Sezin Karameşe, Simon Urban, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Someone Else's Shoes, Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Angel of the City, The City of Frogs, The Crystal Cuckoo, The Duel, The EIght Mountains, The Girl Before Ten Yesterdays, The Intimate Life, The King of Ice Cream, The Marriage Portrait, The Midnight Library, The Museum of Innocence, The Postwoman, The President, The Refrain, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Time of the Flies, The Wall of Silence, The Wide World, Three Lives a Week, Three Months, Tillie Cole, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Trude Teige, Violeta, We Would Have Told Each Other Anything, When Grandmother Danced in the Rain, Where Everything Shines, Wizard of the Kremlin, Women Around the World, Zulfu Livaneli, °C - Celsius

A Look at Literary Events in Spring 2023

By PT Editors

March 27, 2023

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After years of pandemic disruption, New York’s in-person literary galas and events are steadily returning.

Tonight, March 27, Poets & Writers hosts its annual gala at NYC’s Pier Sixty, with Levar Burton hosting. Colin Channer, Reyna Grande, and Celeste Ng are receiving the 2023 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and Jennifer Hershey will receive the 2023 Editor’s Award.

On March 28, following today’s Audio Publishers Association conference, the Audies Gala will be held at Pier Sixty. A YouTube livestream will begin for those at home at 9 pm, when the winners of the 28th annual Audie Awards will be announced.

On April 27, One Story will hold its annual Literary Debutante Ball at Roulette in Brooklyn. The evening celebrates all One Story authors who have published their first books in the preceding year; 2023 marks the 13^th installment of festivities. In addition to authors Isaac Blum, Rita Chang-Eppig, Rachel King, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, Gothataone Moeng, David Lawrence Morse, Richard Mirabella, Josh Riedel, and Laura Spence-Ash, the literary journal will celebrate its 2023 Distinguished Alum, Tania James.

Looking forward to May: the Library of America will host a fortieth anniversary celebration at the Metropolitan Club. Featured writers include Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Adam Gopnik; Farah Jasmine Griffin; Maxine Hong Kingston; Tony Kushner; and Suzanne Vega. Part of all ticket packages include a donation in the attendee’s name to NYC’s public libraries or to Library of America’s own Education Outreach Fund.

On May 9, the Authors Guild Foundation Gala will take place in the Grand Ballroom of New York’s Plaza Hotel. Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman are hosting, and awards include the Authors Guild Foundation Award for Defending Free Speech and Expression, presented by Tracie D. Hall to Christopher Finan; the Authors Guild Foundation Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community, presented by Elizabeth Strout to Roxana Robinson; and the Authors Guild Foundation Award for Literary Activism, presented by Jason Reynolds to Angie Thomas.

On May 18, the PEN America Literary Gala returns to the American Museum of Natural History, with Colin Jost overseeing the evening. The program will be livestreamed from 7:30 onward, following the cocktail hour.

And on June 9, Lambda Literary will hold its 35^th annual Lammy Awards – both live in-person at the Edison Ballroom and through “an immersive virtual platform” online. Awards will be given in twenty-five categories, and proceeds from the evening go towards Lambda’s programs for emerging writers and young people.

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