Author

gordon blitz

After forty years as an accountant, Gordon Blitz retired in 2017 and became a passionate writing machine. As a senior LGBTQ+ man, he has a unique perspective on the many facets of being LGBTQ+ for the last fifty years. He is a multi-media creative artist, novelist, playwright and performer. In 2023, his play, Reflections of A Gay Jewish Boy, had a reading at the Region 8 Kennedy Center American Theater College Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada and became a finalist for the National Festival in Washington, D.C. A Homeless Thanksgiving had a reading in 2025 as part of the Talking It Out Festival at the Spit & Vigor Blackbox Theatre in New York City. His short play, The Aftermath, was published in the June, 2025 issue of Mini Plays Review. Additionally, his play, Climate Change, was selected for the Climate Action New Play Collective at DePaul University. His monologue, Transplant, has been accepted into 321 Plays for Trans Futures, and his monologue, The Important Things We Keep Hidden, was published in the Summer, 2025 issue of The Soliloquist. His play, Reflections of A Teenage Jewish Lesbian, had a reading in September, 2025 as part of the Tiger’s Heart Festival. His monologue, Caged, won the Go Write a Play competition given by the Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu, Hawaii in conjunction with Bamboo Ridge Books. The Spokane Falls Community College Spartan Theater included his play, Scared Ethel, in their Fall, 2025 New Works Reader’s Theatre Festival. In 2021, his novella, Shipped Off, was published by Running Wild Press in Novella Anthology, Volume 4, Book 1. Since 2021, he has published six novels: Stretched Love; Murder Times Three: A Waverly Place Mystery; Transformation and Acceptance; The Hermaphrodites; Harmonic Dissonance and It’s No Laughing Matter. In 2025, a documentary about his life called Walk in the Park: A Life Rewritten was produced. The movie is available for viewing on a link in his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MrGblitz