The Writer’s Center presents a FREE virtual chat about the craft of nonfiction! We’re joined by Luke Sutherland to discuss his award-winning nonfiction chapbook, Distance Sequence. Luke is in conversation with Emily Holland, author and Editor of Poet Lore.
Distance Sequence is The Inner Loop’s Author’s Corner spotlight. The Inner Loop cultivates and promotes the distinctive literary culture of Washington, DC. Author’s Corner supports local authors’ independently published books by spotlighting them in community programming and collaborations.
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Luke Sutherland is a trans writer and librarian. His work has appeared in smoke and mold, ANMLY, Bright Wall/Dark Room, MQR: Mixtape, and more. His chapbook Distance Sequence (Neon Hemlock 2024) won the OutWrite 2023 Chapbook Contest in Nonfiction. He was a finalist for the SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash Fiction in 2022 and the Larry Neal Writers’ Award in 2023. Luke also helps run a DC-based trans writing group and micropress, Lilac Peril. You can find him online as @lukejsuth.
About the Book
Remembering is a kind of bleeding. It can ooze or gush, agonize or thrill. A work of hybrid nonfiction, Distance Sequence asks what happens when we bleed on purpose? Presented within a matrix of photos, handwritten notes, and ephemera, it fractures the form of memoir into shards that cut with longing. Reflected in the pieces is all the pleasure and pain of trans4trans love across thousands of miles of separation. Winner of the OutWrite Chapbook Contest in 2023.
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