Queer Life, Queer Love: The Second Anthology

Description

Following the critically acclaimed Queer Life, Queer Love comes the second anthology, championing new and emerging writers alongside established authors. Th anthology features voices across all narrative forms including fiction, poetry, memoir, essay and flash-fiction. The anthology will comprise 30 pieces of writing, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of queer writing today. This is writing that explores characters, stories and experiences beyond the mainstream. Celebrating the fascinating, the forbidden, the subversive, and even the mundane, but in essence, the view from outside.

Matt Bates worked as the lead fiction buyer for WH Smith Travel prior to a creative writing degree at London University and an MLitt at Glasgow University. He has been a judge on both the Costa Book Prize and the Booksellers' Association debut fiction prize. He was the curator of the influential 2017 WHS promotion that celebrated the 50th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality, and is Editor at Large for Muswell Press, advising on the LGBTQI+ list. Kate and Sarah Beal are the owners and publishers of the prize shortlisted Muswell Press which publishes an eclectic mix of fiction, crime biography, travel and lgbtqi+ writing.

"Celebrating queer love...multiple, fleeting, varied'. Kevin Brazil TLS. 'Beautiful writing, original ideas and a few suprises'. Matt Cain. 'A great initiative'. Paul Burston, author, journalist, curator of the Polari Salon"