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DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO : Coast is Queer panel event

DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO : Coast is Queer panel event

As part of the Coast is Queer festival, this exciting panel event looks at two new collections of life writing and short fiction salute the richness of queer life experience – This Arab is Queer celebrates the varied experiences of the queer diasporic community.

Birmingham Literature Festival to celebrate queer writing

Birmingham Literature Festival to celebrate queer writing

Two of the UK’s “most exciting voices in queer writing” will come together during Birmingham Literature Festival to discuss “their novels, their writing and the LGBTQ+ writing scene, which is finally seeing the celebration it deserves.”

BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Working-Class Family Ages Badly’ by Juno Roche

BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Working-Class Family Ages Badly’ by Juno Roche

This is writing that takes us somewhere, sometimes through a shockingly forthright landscape. That’s a rare talent, one that they’re modest about. We’re offered up moments, captured in their minds eye, held up, turned in the light, reflections, refractions, thoughts playing off the shiny surfaces th

The Coast Is Queer, Brighton & Hove’s festival of LGBTQ+ writing, to return in October

The Coast Is Queer, Brighton & Hove’s festival of LGBTQ+ writing, to return in October

Three days of accessible, lively literary conversations, panels, workshops and films celebrating some of the best and brightest LGBTQ+ writers

BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram

BOOK REVIEW: Queer Beyond London by Matt Cook & Alison Oram

Part history, part dream, part political, part romance, part research but wholly celebratory. A book that tells Our story, by those that built and continue to build the spaces we choose to live in. The range of voices written in its pages reflects the diversity of our community back to us, but time

BOOK REVIEW: Flamingo by Rachel Elliot

BOOK REVIEW: Flamingo by Rachel Elliot

Flamingo, at its dysfunctional heart, is a story of people learning to let go and grow, to accept and love people regardless of their flaws, to find a radical space in the heart for kindness to flow. It’s a book about chosen family, finding yourself and the way truly being seen is the safest place o

BOOK REVIEW: Love From the Pink Palace by Jill Nalder

BOOK REVIEW: Love From the Pink Palace by Jill Nalder

This book is a huge throb of love, from a woman who continues to give and share. Her love teaches us that radical unconditional love will get us through the darkest of times and give us an opportunity to build on the ashes of the glories of those who went before.

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