Sideshow: The Queer Literary Carnival is a monthly reading/performance series in NYC. Featuring some of the very finest queer (and queer ally) writers, poets, spoken word performers, storytellers, playwrights and narrative comics out there, Sideshow enthusiastically presents “serious literature for ridiculous times.”
Curated by downtown literary mavens, Cheryl B. and Sinclair Sexsmith.
Cheryl B. (cherylb.com) is an award-winning writer, poet and performer. Her work appears in dozens of print and online publications, including; Ping Pong, Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution (Seal Press, 2007) and BLOOM, among many others. She has appeared at most major New York City literary evenings and toured throughout the U.S, Canada and the U.K. Cheryl lives in Brooklyn and teaches memoir writing at Gotham Writers’ Workshop.
Sinclair Sexsmith (mrsexsmith.com) runs the award-winning personal online writing project Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Gender, and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top at sugarbutch.net. Her work has been published in various anthologies and websites, including the Best Lesbian Erotica series and Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. Mr. Sexsmith writes, teaches, and performs stories about sex and gender. (Photo by Syd London)