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Contemporary queer fiction
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Experimental queer writing
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- ISBN 9781738452859
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Muswell Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The serious sits alongside the subversive; autobiography crashes into wild imagination. You could crack this book at random and find something that grabs you by the throat or makes you laugh out loud possibly both - bold, uncompromising, and thrillingly itself.'- Eric Page, Scene Magazine. Championing new and emerging writers alongside established authors, the anthology features voices across all narrative forms including fiction, poetry, memoir, essay and flash-fiction. The anthology will comprise of 40 pieces, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of queer writing today. The first volume, published by Muswell Press in November 2021, has reprinted five times and praise was widespread. 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.
Editors: 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. Karen McLeod is a writer, performance artist and creative writing teacher. She is writer in residence at Bookseller Crow on the Hill. She is also a visiting lecturer in creative writing at UCAS. Kate and Sarah Beal are the owners and publishers of the prize shortlisted publisher Muswell Press.
