Growing Room Festival presents Love in Lit: Heartbreaks, Heteronormativity, and Clichés
With Gwen Benaway (author of the forthcoming book, Holy Wild), Caroline Adderson, Jillian Christmas, Casey Plett
Moderator: Anna Ling Kaye

When it comes to one of the most tired subjects in the history of storytelling, how can writers create a narrative that can move and matter? Four writers of different genres, Caroline Adderson, Casey Plett, Gwen Benaway, and Jillian Christmas, who have written about love and relationships and their various manifestations—first love, sex, marriage, heartaches, affairs, divorce, and abuse—gather together for this panel to discuss why and how they write about one of the most ubiquitous themes in literature.

This event will feature ASL Interpretation