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Welcome one of two newsletters by the award-winning author KB Brookins. You can buy copies of any of my books here. My other newsletter (focused on positive transgender news) is here.

What is Out of This World?

It is all things writerly AND all things KB. As in, once a month I will send you a newsletter offering tips about creative writing AND telling you what I’m up to (stuff I’ve published, where you can find me in these streets, etc).

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About KB Brookins

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KB Brookins is a Black queer and trans writer, educator, and cultural worker from Texas. KB’s chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound won the Saguaro Poetry Prize, a Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Prize, and a Stonewall Honor Book Award. Their debut collection Freedom House won the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Book of Poetry. KB’s memoir Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf, 2024) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and the Dorothy Allison/Felice Picano Emerging Writer Award. Currently, KB is a City of Austin LGBTQ Quality of Life Commissioner and a Sundress Publications Board of Directors member. When not working, KB enjoys reading, throwing a lil sumn’ on the grill, and sending memes to their spouse. Follow KB on all the apps at @earthtokb.

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