Making It: Queer & Trans Writers & Book Workers On Craft & Publishing

Join Hive Mind Books for a conversation with writers Jamie Hood, Larissa Pham, and Ezra Kupor about writing and publishing life.

Making It is a conversation series where queer and trans writers can learn directly from accomplished writers, publishing professionals, and other book workers about the art and business of books.

In this conversation, will talk about crafting and editing memoir and creative nonfiction, and how writers and editors work together to shape personal stories.

Bring your questions about craft, publishing, and bookselling to Hive Mind Books for candid conversations with our featured speakers, who pull back the curtain on how they create work and share it with the world. After their conversation, we’ll open the floor for an extended audience Q&A.

This conversation is free to attend. Writers of all levels welcome. No MFA or conference free required. The event is produced by Hive Mind Books and is intended specifically for queer and trans writers.

Larissa Pham is the author of Pop Song, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard prize, and was listed as a best book of the year by TIME, NPR, and elsewhere. She is also the author of Fantasian, a novella. She has written essays and criticism for the Paris Review Daily, The Nation, Art in America, Guernica, and elsewhere. She writes essays and criticism on topics including gender, race, sex, visual culture, communication theory, identity formation, art history, and any intersection of the above.

Jamie Hood is the author of how to be a good girl, one of Vogue’s Best Books of 2020, and regards, marcel, a monthly newsletter on Proust and other miscellany. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Baffler, Bookforum, The Nation, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, The Drift, and elsewhere.

Ezra Kupor works at HarperCollins Publishers, where he acquires and edits a diverse list of titles across the Harper Perennial and Harper Books imprints.

Event Venue

Hive Mind Books, 219 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn, United States