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Victor Yates

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Born

in Jacksonville, The United States

Website

http://victoryates.wordpress.com/

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Fiction, Classics, Contemporary

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Victor Yates was raised in Jacksonville, Florida and now lives in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Windy City Times, Gorgeous, and Edge. As a graduate of the Creative Writing program at Otis College, he is the recipient of an Ahmanson Foundation grant.

He is the winner of the Elma Stuckey Writing Award (1st place in poetry). Two of his poems were included in the anthology, “For Colored Boys,” which was edited by Keith Boykin. The anthology won the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award.

Also, he has taught writing workshops at the University of Southern California (for the Models of Pride Conference), Job Corps, Whaley Middle School (Compton), Gindling Hilltop Camp (Malibu), and Bright Star Secondary Charter Academy (Ingle ...more

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The Poems Must Go On: How I Found Pride Poets

In 2019, I went to L.A. Pride looking for a little celebration and ended up finding something that would change the course of my literary life.

It was a hot day, and I had made the mistake of spending too much time in the sun. Somewhere between the crowds, the concrete, and the overwhelming energy of Pride, I got a pretty terrible sunburn. I was looking for somewhere to take shelter—and, more impor

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