William will join a special reading for Lambda Literary Award finalists at Strange Loop Gallery / The Bureau of General Services — Queer Division. Scheduled to read alongside William are: 

• Ryka Aoki (Seasonal Velocities, Transgender Nonfiction, and contributor to The Collection: Short Fiction From The Transgender Vanguard, Transgender Fiction) 

• Tom Cardamone (Green Thumb,  LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror)

• Red Durkin (contributor to The Collection) 

• Stephen S. Mills (He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices, Gay Poetry)

• Casey Plett  (contributor to The Collection)

• Carter Sickels (The Evening Hour, LGBT Debut Fiction, and contributor to The Collection) 

• Rae Spoon (First Spring Grass Fire, Transgender Fiction)

• Barry Webster (The Lava in My Bones, Gay General Fiction).