Darling art lovers and gentle readers, we have made it to Wednesday! Halfway through the week, and so, SO close to the start of the 2024 Seattle Erotic Art Festival! Today we want to tease you with something lascivious and perhaps loquacious. We have a lovely collection of wordsmiths in the anthology this year, and we want to share them with you. So let’s explore the 2024 Literary Events!
Our Literary Events have found a new home this year in the Library. The Library is a little short on books, but will feature a parade of authors throughout the weekend. We also have a selection of authors ready to brave the 4Culture stage and read their accepted works.
Friday
Poems for Your Lover: How to craft sensual, erotic poems inspired by real life.
The Library, 6:30 pm
Kerry Cox
In this artist talk, we’ll explore the art of crafting sensual poetry designed to captivate and enthrall your lover’s senses. Delve into the nuances of language, imagery, and emotion as we dissect the anatomy of desire through verse. Discover techniques to evoke passion, intimacy, and connection through the written word, ultimately mastering the art of seduction through poetry.
Literary Author Showcase
4Culture Stage, 7:30 pm
Listen to the literary artists from this year’s Anthology tease you with just a small taste of their work. If they leave you hungry for more, you can always hop over to the store, pick up a book, and keep reading. Eisbaer, our resident viking, will be there to MC the event. Friday’s featured authors are Megan Landon, Quantum Tease, PhD, Röble, The Dowager of Bees, Jessica Sokol, and Kerry Cox.
Literary Author Meet & Greet
The Library, 8pm
Care to meet the talented and titillating wordsmiths who contributed to the anthology? Maybe get them to sign your copy (or even one of their other books that you snagged in the store)?
Bedtime Stories
The Library, starting at 10pm
A chill alternative to the dancefloor once the music comes up. A selection of our accepted authors will gather in the Library to read some of their spicy stories. There will be cookies. Authors reading on Friday include: Kerry Cox, Jessica Sokol, Röble, GIgi Feril, and Ophir Reader.
Saturday
Tell Me (Tiny) Stories of Consent
The Library, 1:15 pm
Sumu Tasib
We see countless movies where seduction is intuitive and automatic, with nary a mention of consent. Is it any surprise, then, that so many of us struggle to navigate consent in the real world? How might it change things if we had a rich tapestry of stories to draw from, from verbal to nonverbal, from monogamy to sex parties, from successful negotiations to abject failures?
Su’s latest project is a collection of tiny one-minute stories about consent, meant to be sources of inspiration, contemplation, and cautionary tales. He loves to share a few he’s already written, but more than anything he wants to hear your stories, and about the stories you wish someone would write.
Self Tutelage: A practical toolkit for finding the eros in absolutely everything
The Library, 2:45 pm
Röble
This talk explores the importance self love, and pleasure and how these elements can be found in ALL aspects of life. In Act I we will walk through how to create a common language that we can all work from, particularly as we are personally guided by our own personal definition of eros. In Act II we push our definition of eros to the extreme by finding the sexy in a not so sexy setting and find how liberating that can be. And in the 3rd and Final Act we memorialize it, memory is fleeting! How do we ensure we don’t forget where and how do we begin to apply these concepts to inform our lives, our writing and our art practice.
Ecos, Eros, Soma: Exploring Ecological Eroticism through poetry, song and story.
The Library, 4:15 pm
Epona Rose
Join animist, poet and bardess Epona Rose for a collaborative exploration of the erotic nature of- well, nature. Pleasure bridges our bodies- individual, collective and ecological. Decoupling the erotic from the limiting constructs of romantic capitalism, we are free to explore and experience our powerful, intimate, collaborative and downright sexy relationships with the other-than-human world.
Literary Author Showcase
4Culture Stage, 6:30 pm
Listen to the literary artists from this year’s Anthology tease you with just a small taste of their work. If they leave you hungry for more, you can always hop over to the store, pick up a book, and keep reading. Eisbaer, our resident viking, will be there to MC the event. Saturday’s featured authors are Shana Graham, Sumu Tasib, Isis Zystrid, Melissa Lee, Shane Guthrie, Epona Rose, Ophir Reader, Teeebone, and 7.
Literary Author Meet & Greet
The Library, 7:15pm
Care to meet the talented and titillating wordsmiths who contributed to the anthology? Maybe get them to sign your copy (or even one of their other books that you snagged in the store)?
Sauced and Saucy
The Library, 8:30 pm
Drea Talley
A tipsy* smut writing workshop with the Literary Art Director. Drea will run through the different types of erotic writing, overused tropes, and how to write smut that is more than just a sex scene.
*You do not have to be tipsy to join the workshop.
Bedtime Stories
The Library, starting at 10pm
A chill alternative to the dancefloor once the music comes up. A selection of our accepted authors will gather in the Library to read some of their spicy stories. There will be cookies. Authors reading on Saturday include: Megan Landon, Shana Graham, Eisbaer, Clea Salar, and others.