
Welcome to Lavender Con, a book festival celebrating LGBTQIA+ authors and stories presented by Little District Books, Washington, DC's all-queer independent bookstore. Author, Vendor, and Sponsorship Interest are now open. Tickets now on sale!
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Confirmed Authors
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Avrah Baren
Avrah C. Baren (she/they) is a SciFi/Fantasy writer based in the DMV,...
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Jason Bartles
Jason A. Bartles is a Clarion West ‘23 Alum and Professor of Spanish...
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Erin Becker
Erin Becker is an author and marketer living in Washington, DC. She...
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Georgia Beers
Goldie, Foreword Book of the Year, and two-time Lambda Literary award-winning author...
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Diane Billas
Diane Billas (she/her) is a pansexual/demisexual author living in the suburbs ofPhiladelphia....
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Sharang Biswas
Sharang Biswas is an NYC-based writer, artist, and award-winning game designer. He...
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Sophie Burnham
Sophie Burnham (they/them) is the author of the Ex Romana trilogy. The first novel, Sargassa,...
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Jess Callans
Jess Callans is a queer children’s author and wanna-be-illustrator with an MFA...
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Roselyn Clarke
ROSELYN CLARKE loves to write about the things that haunt us—relationships, mistakes,...
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Kenneth Creech
Kenneth Creech is an award-winning author known for his LGBTQ+ young adult...
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Morgan Dante
Morgan Dante is a romance, horror, and fantasy author. Their most well-known...
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Dominique Dickey
Dominique Dickey is a speculative fiction writer and game designer. As the...
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Susie Dumond
Susie Dumond is a queer writer originally from Little Rock, Arkansas. She...
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Erica Rose Eberhart
Erica Rose Eberhart (she/her) is a neurodivergent, disabled writer of queer characters,...
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K.M. Enright
K. M. Enright is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of MISTRESS OF...
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Airic Fenn
Airic Fenn is a child of the Rocky Mountains who spends more...
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William Grant
William Grant holds a BA in Fiction Writing from Columbia College Chicago....
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Michelle J.
Michelle J (she/her) is a fantasy author from upstate New York with...
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Ian Haramaki
Ian Haramaki is an author of queer fiction and illustrator of creatures...
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Kristin Jacques
Kristin Jacques is an award-winning author of fantasy fiction for teens and...
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Timothy Janovsky
Timothy Janovsky is a queer, multidisciplinary storyteller based in Washington, DC. He...
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Shingai Njeri Kaguda
Shingai Njeri Kagunda is an Afrosurreal/futurist storyteller from Nairobi, Kenya with a...
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Melissa Karibian
Melissa Karibian (she/her) is a queer storyteller, iced cafecito lover, and under...
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Venessa Vida Kelley
Venessa Vida Kelley is a Nuyorican writer, illustrator and sequential artist. Their work...
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Sarah G. Levine
Sarah Levine is a romance author and teacher based out of Brooklyn,...
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Sawyer Lovett
Sawyer Lovett is a writer who lives in Tazewell County, VA by...
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Maddie Martinez
Maddie Martinez was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where her...
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Morgan Lee Miller
Morgan Lee Miller is a Goldie award-winning author of (almost) eight contemporary...
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Natalie Naudus
“A fave among audiobook listeners” (Buzzfeed), Natalie Naudus is one of the...
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Shannon O'Connor
Shannon O’Connor is a twenty something, queer, self published author of over...
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Eric Peterson
Eric Peterson is a novelist and playwright. His plays include an adaptation of Nathaniel...
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R.M. Romero
R. M. Romero (she/they) is a queer Jewish Latina and international bestselling...
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Alexandra Rowland
Alexandra Rowland is the author of several works in the Chantiverse series,...
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Tagan Shepard
Tagan Shepard (she/her) is an author of sapphic romance, including the 2019...
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Esme Symes-Smith
Esme Symes-Smith is the author of the Bestselling Middle=Grade series, SIR CALLIE....
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Alex Travis
ALEX TRAVIS worked in autism research for three years and is currently...
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Kit Vincent
Kit Vincent is the bestselling author of LGBTQ Science Fiction and Fantasy,...
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Jenna Voris
Jenna Voris is the author of multiple young adult books including Every Time...
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Andrew Joseph White
Andrew Joseph White is the trans, autistic, and bestselling author of Hell Followed...
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Lou Wilham
Born and raised in a small town near the Chesapeake Bay, Lou...
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Brittany N. Williams
Brittany N. Williams is an award-nominated actress and the award-nominated author of...
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Nicole Zelniker
Nicole Zelniker (she/they) is the author of several books, including FROM WHERE...