Lauren Patzer

Trinity Lauren Patzer

Blue Forge Press selected nine authors (three men, three women, three nonbinary) and sent them writing prompts every month for a year. We wanted to explore a triad of gender expression but instead discovered a more authentic creative trinity: Writer. Idea. Reader. Despite their vast and varied differences in experience, style, ideology, class, politics, race, sexuality, and religion, the authors all gave a year of their creative lives to craft their best work over the course of 2019. The resulting hundred and eight stories were compiled into four volumes: Trinity Winter, Trinity Spring, Trinity Summer and Trinity Autumn. This fifth volume, The Trinity Guidebook, provides in-depth interviews with each author plus nine bonus stories written in 2020. Whether brand new and just beginning their writing careers or established veterans in the industry, rarely have more diverse authors come together to create a body of work so inclusive and enlightening. Blue Forge Press used a light editorial hand to allow the writers' voices to be heard in their original state: Undiluted, unaltered and raw. The writers are here. The ideas are here. We welcome readers to complete the trinity.