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phati’tude Literary Magazine is pleased to announce that award-winning poet Timothy Liu will bring his expertise as guest editor to “The Lavender Issue: LGBT Literature Today,” and that ArtSceneToday.com, the online art forum for emerging artists, will be partnering via a special LGBT art competition for the magazine cover.  This collaboration promises to make this an exciting and ground-breaking issue to date.  The issue is phati’tude’s Summer 2010 Issue and  will be published June 18, 2010.

The writers’ submission deadline for “The Lavender Issue” is May 7, 2010.  Guest editor Liu is looking for poetry and short stories that are written by LGBT writers, including essays that address the relevancy of LGBT literature as it pertains to the current literary canon; including historical and social issues as it pertains to the genre.  For more information, check out our submission guidelines at http://tiny.cc/phatitude.

The ArtSceneToday deadline for artwork is April 28, 2010; call for entries can be found at http://artscenetoday.com/call_for_entries1/.  The first place winner of the online LGBT Art competition will be featured as the cover artwork for “The Lavender Issue.”  Other winners and finalists will be featured on the phati’tude website at www.phatitude.org.

Participate in our groundbreaking issue and submit your work today!   For more information, contact Gabrielle David, Editor at editor@phatitude.org

Kaution Media Concepts’ brainchild of author/artist Kaution announced the new online soap opera series entitled Kaution presents…Konfessions in development and set for production in early April. The unique online soap series is one of several Kaution Media Concepts projects due to be released in 2010. Konfessions will be the first audio production in KMC’s audio catalog.

Audio soap operas is not a new concept but Konfessions will be the first of its kind in the history of audio dramas to be based and targeted to the urban LGBT community. Each episode will be 35 minutes in length with a new episode weekly, featuring music from various cast members as well as Spoken Word stanzas with contributions from other LGBT artists contributing helping to shape each episode.

Created by the author Kaution, gay lit fiction writer and written by Kaution and new creative partner GYFTED the two tell the tale of two record labels in the fictitious city known as Hillside owned by rival lesbians once friends now turned enemies and the people caught inadvertently in the middle.

With power struggles to control the music scene close to erupting in the city and old debts of revenge needing to be repaid, Hillside City’s many dark secrets with seeds that were planted twenty years in the past struggle to surface only to reveal years of lies and deceit that was buried but forgotten now ready to show itself in the light of day. The show’s characters will have friendships tested, loves destroyed, lies exposed and families torn into pieces as all the major players work towards their own personal agendas at any cost. Even the “good” guys are bad in this audio drama packed with twists in every episode.

The story asks one question, “Can you handle the truth?”

Cast in this drama packed audio series is LGBT notables, Yung Snazz, Elle Crawford, Aurora Jonez, I AM KING, Renair Amin, Young Doe, Lyndon Jones, Lester Greene, Sonya Toler, Kaution and the casts two hetros Garnet and J. McGregor.

With a diverse and talented cast of hiphop artists, stage performers, spoken word artists and writers the cast spans several age groups which tie seamlessly well together.

You can read more of the official press release for Kaution presents…Konfessions at this site. For more information, please contact: 641-715-3900 Ext.85774

Crossroads, the highly anticipated third novel by Skyy, is almost here.

Lena knows who she wants and she is headed to meet her destiny. She refuses to let anything stop her, not even her husband or the baby growing in her stomach.

Denise knows it’s time to move on. Hopefully being in New York will help her broken heart mend. With a new career and a new residence maybe she can finally move on from Lena. But will a change of events finally break her down.

Cooley knew it was a mistake to break her own rules. She gave her heart to Misha and lost big time. She doesn’t plan to make that mistake ever again. Now she is focused on her new A&R job with Jam Zone, nothing is going to take her off her path…or so she thinks.

The crew has left the comforts of Freedom University for their new adult lives. Love, drama, and life brings them to the crossroads. Which way will they go?

Skyy is the author of the highly-popular novels, Choices and Consequences.

PRE-ORDER TODAY to receive an autographed copy of Crossroads when it comes out this May. You can only pre-order on www.simplyskyy.com

Congratulations are in order for Samiya Bashir, who is a finalist for a 2010 Lambda Literary Award. Her book, Gospel: Poems published by Red Bone Press, was recognized in the Lesbian Poetry category. Winners will be announced at the 22nd Annual Awards in New York on May 27. Let’s wish Bashir the best.

Clarke’s Illusions of Love: Two Erotic Vignettes featuring Kenya is a return to the self-centered, self-indulgent Kenya from Intimate Chaos. The synopsis:

Imagine being able to do whatever you want whenever you want. Imagine living by your own rules, never feeling guilty and never apologizing for what you do. Imagine being so charming and smooth you effortlessly move in and out of your lovers’ lives and bank accounts, giving them the illusion of love and stability. Can you imagine, being cunning and charismatic yet cold and calculating?

Meet Kenya, Clarke’s firecracker character from Intimate Chaos and the lead in Illusions of Love: Two Erotic Vignettes. In addition to feverish passages of lesbian sex and seduction, we get to know Kenya for the chilling individual she really is: an emotional parasite with a stunning lack of conscience and voracious appetite for women.

Relax, read and revel in this bold new collection of stories from novelist, Cheril N. Clarke.

Zedde’s Kisses after Midnight is a collection of short stories. The synopsis:

The artist with a secret passion. An assassin on the hunt. A Jamaican exiled in snow. These are just a few of the women who come to life in this seductive collection of thirteen stories by novelist, Fiona Zedde.

Exploring themes of love, desire, liberation, and loss, these stories take the reader on a journey into the hearts and minds of unforgettable characters who linger long after the last page has turned.

If you read and enjoyed any of Fiona’s previous novels – Bliss, A Taste of Sin, Every Dark Desire, or Hungry for It – this is an anthology not to be missed.

Pick up both these books at amazon.com.

Sistahs on the Shelf is up for a 2009 Lezzy Award in the Entertainment/Culture category from The Lesbian Lifestyle website.  Sistahs needs your nominations, and you can do that by clicking the banner above. Only the top 3 nominated blogs will move on to compete for the winner of this category. You can make one nomination every 24 hours, and be sure to check your email to click on the confirmation link listed there.

It was an honor to be considered, so any support to Sistahs is appreciated. For more information about the The Lezzies visit http://thelesbianlifestyle.com/the-lezzies/

Shades Retreat: Personal, You is being held April 23-25, 2010 in Pine Mountain, Georgia. The cost is $300 and will cover lodging, meals and all retreat activities to include workshops.

Cost of the lesbian retreat will cover lodging, meals and all retreat activities to include workshops.

Facilitators for the event include Kat Williams, Angela Harvey, Ifalade Ta’Shia, Shaashawn Dial, Claudia Moss, Queen Sheba, Freedom Speaks, Cheril N Clarke, Susan A Webley, Valarie Johnson, Shemeah Richardson, Kimberly Jones, Nicole Lanier and Tiffany Hall, Evangelist J Harris & Jenise Brown.

To learn more about the retreat and take advantage of the offer, visit http://www.shadesretreat.com.

But don’t worry, the site will be back for January, bringing you more of what you’ve been asking for. New changes will be made and I’ll definitely keep you abreast.

Enjoy New Year’s and best wishes to you in 2007.

Cause Sistahs will be back.

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