Lavender Con

Welcome to Lavender Con, a book festival celebrating LGBTQIA+ authors and stories presented by Little District Books, Washington, DC's all-queer independent bookstore.

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Aaron H. Aceves
Aaron H. Aceves (he/him) is a bisexual, Mexican-American writer born and raised in...

Aaron H. Aceves
Ethan M. Aldridge
Ethan M. Aldridge is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. He is...

Ethan M. Aldridge
Terry Bartley
Terry Bartley is a journalism, literature, and English teacher at Scott High...

Terry Bartley
Terry Benton-Walker
TERRY J. BENTON-WALKER grew up in rural GA and now lives in...

Terry Benton-Walker
Diane Billas
Diane Billas (she/her) is a pansexual/demisexual author living in the suburbs ofPhiladelphia....

Diane Billas
Andre Bradley
Andre Bradley is the author of adult, young adult, and middle-grade fantasy...

Andre Bradley
Ciera Burch
Ciera Burch is a lifelong writer and ice cream aficionado. She has a...

Ciera Burch
Andie Burke
Andie Burke writes romantic comedies in between her pediatric RN shifts. She...

Andie Burke
Charles Bush
Charles A. Bush lives in Philadelphia where he attended Cabrini University before...

Charles Bush
Suzie Clark
Multi-Award winning sapphic novelist Suzie Clarke is an Ohio native and lives...

Suzie Clark
Neil Cochrane
Neil Cochrane (any pronouns) is a queer, trans author and artist. He...

Neil Cochrane
Felice Cohen
Known nationally and internationally as the woman who lived in one of...

Felice Cohen
Arden Coutts
Arden is a trans, non-binary author who writes queer romantic suspense novels...

Arden Coutts
William Dameron
William Dameron is an award-winning writer and author of the novel, The Way...

William Dameron
Susie Dumond
Susie Dumond is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, Arkansas. She is...

Susie Dumond

M.L. Eaden
M.L.(Mel) Eaden works by day in the tech industry, but at night, she reads...

M.L. Eaden
Federico Erebia
Federico Erebia is a retired physician, woodworker, author, poet, and illustrator. He received...

Federico Erebia
Bree Fram
Colonel Bree Fram is an astronautical engineer in the US Space Force....

Bree Fram
Will Freshwater
Will Freshwater was born and raised in a small steel town outside...

Will Freshwater
Ryan D. Gebhart
Ryan D Gebhart first started writing the Jewel of Life series in...

Ryan D. Gebhart
Valerie Gomez
In addition to being a writer, Valerie Gomez is an art director,...

Valerie Gomez
William Grant
William Grant holds a BA in Fiction Writing and Photography from Columbia College Chicago....

William Grant
Craig Laurance Gidney
Craig Laurance Gidney is a three-time Lambda Literary finalist who lives and...

Craig Laurance Gidney
Elyssa Maxx Goodman
I'm a New York-based writer and photographer specializing in non-fiction writing and...

Elyssa Maxx Goodman
Aaron Hamburger
Aaron Hamburger is the author of four books, the story collection THE...

Aaron Hamburger
Ian Haramaki
Ian Haramaki is an emerging author of queer fiction of all types....

Ian Haramaki
Sierra Isley
Sierra Isley (she/her) is a Young Adult romance author originally from Atlanta,...

Sierra Isley
Meka James
Meka James is a writer of adult contemporary and erotic romance. A born and...

Meka James
Timothy Janovsky
Timothy Janovsky is a queer, multidisciplinary storyteller based in DC. He is the...

Timothy Janovsky
Jen Karner
Jen Karner is a queer writer who never attended college but still...

Jen Karner

Tony Keith Jr.
Tony Keith Jr. is a Black American gay poet, spoken word artist,...

Tony Keith Jr.
Olive J. Kelley
Olive is a 24 year old, non-binary, disabled lesbian who writes about...

Olive J. Kelley
Brian D. Kennedy
Brian D. Kennedy (he/him) is the award-winning author of A Little Bit...

Brian D. Kennedy
Brent Lambert
Brent Lambert is a Black, queer man who heavily believes in the...

Brent Lambert
Karmen Lee
Karmen Lee is a lifelong Southerner living it up in Atlanta, Georgia, with her...

Karmen Lee
Katherine Locke
Katherine Locke lives and writes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with their feline overlords...

Katherine Locke
Jeffrey Dale Lofton
Jeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Georgia, best known as the home...

Jeffrey Dale Lofton
Riley Long
Riley Long is a partner and parent living a quiet life in...

Riley Long
Caylan MacRae
Caylan MacRae is an unprofessional vampire hunter (keeps kissing instead of killing...

Caylan MacRae
Tobias Madden
Originally from Sydney, Australia, Tobias now resides in New York City with...

Tobias Madden
Barbara Perez Marquez
Barbara Perez Marquez was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, now...

Barbara Perez Marquez
Mo Melo
Mo Melo is a gay immigrant from Portugal who has been living...

Mo Melo
Jo Miles
Jo Miles is a queer, nonbinary author of optimistic science fiction and...

Jo Miles
Jenna Miller
Jenna Miller (she/her) writes Young Adult books about fat, queer, nerdy girls...

Jenna Miller
Morgan Lee Miller
Morgan Lee Miller (she/her) was born and raised in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, where...

Morgan Lee Miller

Richard Mirabella
Richard Mirabella is a writer and civil servant living in upstate New...

Richard Mirabella
Natalie Naudus
Natalie Naudus is one of the most beloved audiobook narrators working today....

Natalie Naudus
Rasheed Newson
Rasheed Newson is the author of “My Government Means to Kill Me,”...

Rasheed Newson
Emet North
Emet North has lived in a dozen states over the past decade...

Emet North
Sarah Prager
Sarah Prager is the author of four nonfiction books for youth about...

Sarah Prager
Marc Renson
Marc Renson is an Award Winning Author and holds a degree in...

Marc Renson
Sarah Robinson
Aside from being a Top 10 Barnes & Noble and Amazon Bestseller,...

Sarah Robinson
Andromeda Ruins
Andromeda Ruins is your local possum from a small town in the...

Andromeda Ruins
Santiago Sanchez
Santiago Jose Sanchez is a queer Colombian-American writer and artist born in...

Santiago Sanchez
Tony Santorella
Tony Santorella was born and raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, site of the...

Tony Santorella
Adriana Sargent
Long time writer and full-time bourbon connoisseur Adriana Sargent creates character driven,...

Adriana Sargent
Anne Shade
Anne Shade has a passion for writing stories about women who love...

Anne Shade
Tagan Shepard
Tagan Shepard (she/her) is the author of eleven books of sapphic fiction,...

Tagan Shepard
Sirius
Sirius is a lover of glory, gore, and monsters. They are a...

Sirius
David R. Slayton
David R. Slayton grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels...

David R. Slayton

Dallas Smith
Dallas Smith (she/her) is a queer and neurodivergent author of contemporary romance...

Dallas Smith
Frederick Smith
Originally from Detroit, Frederick Smith is a graduate of the Missouri School...

Frederick Smith
SE Smyth
S.E. Smyth is inspired by history and stories that have not been...

SE Smyth
Michael Solis
Michael Solis is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and creative non-fiction....

Michael Solis
Chloe Spencer
Minnesota native Chloe Spencer is an award winning writer, indie gamedev, and...

Chloe Spencer
Esme Symes-Smith
After cutting their teeth on a steady diet of fan fiction in...

Esme Symes-Smith
Nathan Tavares
Nathan Tavares is a writer from Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in...

Nathan Tavares
Lauren R. Taylor
Lauren R. Taylor is a leader in the field of preventing, interrupting,...

Lauren R. Taylor
Addie Tsai
Addie Tsai (any/all) is a queer nonbinary artist and writer of color...

Addie Tsai
Michael R. Underwood
Michael R. Underwood (they/he) is an author, game designer, and actual play producer. Their...

Michael R. Underwood
Kit Vincent
Kit Vincent is the bestselling author of LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy,...

Kit Vincent
Dale Walls
Dale Walls is a culture writer, curator, and art historian based in...

Dale Walls
Lou Wilham
Born and raised in a small town near the Chesapeake Bay, Lou...

Lou Wilham