Squawk Box with Shane Hinton + Kayla Upadhyaya, moderated by Ryan Rivas

Name: Squawk Box with Shane Hinton + Kayla Upadhyaya, moderated by Ryan Rivas
Start: 2025-10-09T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Union Hall

Schedule

Thu, 09 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Union Hall | Lakeland, FL

We have a very special line up for our October talk!
We’ll hear from Shane Hinton, Kayla Upadhyaya, and Ryan Rivas, all wonderful local authors. Ryan Rivas is also the publisher and editor for Burrow Press: A literary publisher founded in Orlando, FL, in 2010. Burrow Press has provided over 1,600 opportunities for writers to publish and share their work.
Due to federal government cuts, Burrow Press has lost a grant causing a significant budget shortfall. All of our proceeds from this talk will be donated to Burrow Press.
Tickets / donations are $10 per person. We will be raffling copies of each authors books and a one year subscription to Burrow Press.
Help support this independent publisher by subscribing! Burrow Press exists because of adventurous readers. Subscribers directly support their publishing program, allowing them to provide a home for work that might otherwise be overlooked by “the big 5” corporate publishers. Subscribers receive all their 2026 books & other perks (including acknowledgement in print and online). Subscribers directly contribute to helping them build a lasting body of literature and foster literary community in Florida. Subscriptions help them pay authors more, and give them the financial freedom to take artistic risks in the work we publish.
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Meet the authors:
Shane Hinton is the author of the novel Radio Dark and editor of the anthology We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida. He holds an MFA from the University of Tampa and lives in the winter strawberry capital of the world.
“If Kafka got it on with Flannery O’ Connor, Pinkies would be their love child.”
–LIDIA YUKNAVITCH author of The Small Backs of Children
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. Her queer horror novelette Helen House was named one of the Best LGBTQ Books of 2022 by NBC News. She is the managing editor of Autostraddle, an assistant fiction editor at Foglifter, and the former managing editor of TriQuarterly. Her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Catapult, The Offing, Joyland, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and others. Some of her culture writing can be found in The Cut, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Refinery29, and Vice, and she previously worked as a restaurant reporter for Eater NY. She has held fellowships with Tin House and Lambda Literary.
Ryan Rivas is the author of the text-image book Nextdoor in Colonialtown (Autofocus, 2022) and the novella Lizard People (ThirtyWest, 2023). He is the Publisher of Burrow Press, and the Coordinator of MFA Publishing at Stetson University’s MFA of the Americas creative writing program. A Macondo Writers Workshop fellow, his work has appeared in The Believer, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012, and elsewhere.