• IMGP0165AnneLaughlin
  • IMGP0184E.M.Kokie_
  • IMGP0127JudithMarkowitz
  • IMGP0174C.P.Rowlands
  • IMGP0160TracyBaim
  • IMGP0157LauraKnight
  • IMGP0148LewisWallace
  • IMGP0193Audience
  • IMGP0132ChrisPaynter
Midwest finalists for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards held a reading and booksigning for their nominated books May 22 at Center on Halsted.

The readers were Anne Laughlin (Runaway), Marty McConnell (wine for a shotgun), Lania Knight (Three Cubic Feet), E.M. Kokie (Personal Effects), Chris Paynter (Survived by Her Longtime Companion), C.P. Rowlands (Jacob’s War), Lewis Wallace, and Windy City Times Publisher Tracy Baim (Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America).

Ramon H. Rivera-Servera (Performing Queer Latinidad: Dance, Sexuality, Politics) was delayed by travel and could not attend.

See www.lambdaliterary.org for details on the June Awards in New York City.