Events & NEWS
Ken is always happy to meet with your book group to discuss his novel. If at all possible, he’ll try to be there in person. Otherwise, he’ll meet you virtually. Contact him at ken@kenharvey.net to arrange a time.
2024
Ken’s story collection (The Invisible Mourner) was placed on a shortlist of five (out of 350 manuscripts) for the 2024 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Thursday, November 14 @ 7:00 The Publishing Triangle OUTSPOKEN series, BGSQD, 208 West 13th Street, NYC. Ken will read with other queer writers. BGSQD
Friday, March 22-Sunday, March 24: New Orleans, Saints & SInners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival, Hotel Monteleone. Ken will be reading new work and will participate in a panel discussion. For more information visit Saints & Sinners.
2023
Thursday, February 23, 7:30-9:00 Between the Covers, Maggie’s Book Club. To RSVP and for more information, email Michael at michael@maggiesto.org. For information about Maggie’s Toronto Sex Worker Action Project, visit https://www.maggiesto.org
January 7-22 Ken will be in residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts working on his new novel.
MEDIA
Review from PinkPlayMags here.
Review from Out In Print read here.
Excerpt from Casey Adair in the San Francisco Bay Times. Read here.
Review from The Bay Area Reporter. Read here.
Interview with QueerForty. Read here
Review in mygaytoronto.com. Read here
Video and Audio
Podcast with Wayne Goodman at Queerwords. Listen here
Video of discussion with Alice Mattison, sponsored by Birchbark Editing and hosted by Cat Parnell, view here.
Ken interviews Melanie Mitzner, author of Slow Reveal. Sponsored by Glad Day bookstore. Watch here
Podcast with Wayne Goodman at Queerwords. Listen here
Interview with Anisa Tejpar for "Inside the Arts." SAUGA 960 AM Listen here
Conversation with Mark Tara at Rainbow County CIUT 89.5 FM Listen here
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday, August 17, 7:00 PM Pacific (10:00 PM Eastern): Ken will be joining Perfectly Queer Readings for a trip to "Faraway Places in Fiction & Nonfiction" Wed., Aug.17, 7pm to 8pm Pacific via Zoom. Queer authors Kate Greene, Ken Harvey & Jules Ohman take us to Europe & Mars! Email perfectlyqueersf@gmail.com for the link.
June, June 23, 2022 3:30-5:00 Humber College’s Pride Literary Panel entitled “Lifting Up Queer Voices.” The panel will be hosted by Humber College’s 2SLGBTQ+ Employee Resource Group (ERG) and the Humber Literary Review. Ken will be on a panel discussion with other Queer writers. Live streamed register here.
Monday, June 13th, 2022 11:00 AM-11:45 AM, Gay Fiction and the Politics of Democracy, Sponsored by West Pride, Gothenburg, Sweden. Ken joins Joshua Kent Bookman,Cary Alan Johnson, Lance Ringe and Sebastian Stuart for a panel discussion. (In person and Live Streamed)
Thursday, May 19, 2022 7:00, Formal U.S Book Launch of The Book of Casey Adair as well as Melanie Mitzner’s novel Slow Reveal, BGSQD (Bureau of General Services - Queer Division) Bookstore, The LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, New York City.
Thursday, May 12, 2022 7:00-8:30, Reading at the Stock Bar in Montreal as part of the Violet Hour Reading Series. Other readers: Melanie Mitzner, Cid V Brunet, Vincent Fortier and Christopher DiRaddo.
Saturday, April 16, 2022 2:00-3:00, Reading and signing at the 519, Toronto
Thursday, April 14, 2022 7:00-9:00, Reading and reception, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street, Toronto.
Friday - Sunday, March 25 -27, 2022 Reading and discussion at the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans.
Saturday, February 26, 2:00-4:00 Book signing at Glad Day Bookstore, 499 Church Street, Toronto.