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 30 pieces, 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.
Earlier collections have showcased a plethora of talented authors. with contributions from Jon Ransom, Isabel Costello, Karen McLeod and Avi Ben-Zeev.
About the Author :
Matt Bates worked as the lead fiction buyer for WH Smith Travel prior to embarking on a creative writing degree at London 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 in 1967, and is Editor at Large for Muswell Press.
Karen McLeod is writer in residence at The Bookseller Crow on the Hill and a visiting lecture in creative writing at UCAS. She won the Betty Trask Prize for her debut In Search of the Missing Eyelash and her memoir Lifting Off was published to great acclaim in June '24. She performs comedy as Barbara Brownskirt and regularly works with Polari the LGBTQ+ Literary Salon.
Sarah and Kate Beal are the owners and publishers of Muswell Press. With over 50 years publishing experience between them at some of the UK's most influential publishers, including Bloomsbury, Faber, Oneworld and Harpercollins. They started Muswell Press in 2017 and have since been nominated and won several awards including Polari, Fortnum & Mason, IPG Newcomer and British Book Awards Finalist.
Review :
'Beautiful writing, original ideas and a few suprises' Matt Cain
'Celebrating queer love...multiple, fleeting, varied' Kevin Brazil, TLS
'A great initiative'.
Paul Burston, Polari Salon
'Each unique story shines in this sweeping curation of narrative voices.' Evening Standard Best Books 2024
