

Sibling Rivalry Press is proud to be the home of Assaracus, the world’s only print journal of gay male poetry and one of Library Journal‘s “Best New Magazines.” Several Sibling Rivalry Press titles have been honored by the American Library Association through its “Over the Rainbow” list of recommended LGBT reading, including Ocean Vuong’s Burnings, Kevin Simmonds’ Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets and Faith, Religion & Spirituality, and Bryan Borland’s My Life as Adam. Our mission is to promote new, emerging, and established literary talent, particularly those writers who don’t fit into the mainstream. Visit him at .įounded in 2010, Sibling Rivalry Press is an independent publishing house based just outside of Little Rock, Arkansas, in the small town of Alexander. He currently teaches literature and writing at Indian Springs School, an independent boarding and day school in Birmingham, Alabama. in poetry from The University of Mississippi, where he edited The Yalobusha Review. A former Lambda Literary Foundation Poetry Fellow, he earned his B.A. Lamar Wilson.Ī native Mississippian, Douglas Ray is author of He Will Laugh (Lethe Press, 2012), which explores the relationship of two young men from first meeting to the aftermath of one man’s suicide. Whitley, Scott Wiggerman, Cristan Williams, and L. Peterson, Kenneth Pobo, Brad Richard, Hannah Riddle, Laurence Ross, Liana Roux, Kevin Sessums, Del Shores, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Will Stockton, Dan Stone, Christine Stroud, Billie Tadros, TC Tolbert, Dan Vera, Annie Virginia, Valerie Wetlaufer, C.T. Mills, Cameron Mitchell, Foster Noone, Joseph Osmundson, Eddie Outlaw, Seth Pennington, Evan J.

Mack, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Randall Mann, Mary Meriam, Stephen S. Gilson, Ellen Goldstein, Mirian Brid Greenberg, Elizabeth Gross, Johnathan Harper, Scott Hightower, Matthew Hittinger, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rex Leonowicz, Sassafras Lowrey, Tyler Lynn, Bo McGuire, Rangi McNeil, Kelly McQuain, M. Daniels, Nick Dephtereos, David Eye, Jason K.

Included are Dorothy Allison, Shane Allison, John Andrews, Derrick Austin, Jeffery Berg, Richard Blanco, Perry Brass, Dustin Brookshire, Jericho Brown, Joey Connelly, William Cordeiro, Cleo Creech, James Croteau, J.K.

This anthology, dreamed up and edited by Douglas Ray, features poetry and prose that sings of and explores the queer experience of the American South. Order The Queer South: LGBTQ Writers on the American South
