What a time! We’ve had a blast with the one and only @michelleteaz to celebrate the UK publication of Little F 💜
Huge thanks to everyone who hosted us for events and signings and to everyone who came out to listen! Special shout out to @sheffieldindiebookfest which was unreal - can we do it again please?
If you haven’t read Little F yet, do so! Copies available on our site or from your local indie bookshop
@qpbooks@gaysthewordbookshop@w0rms.w0rld@lrbbookshop@themargatebookshop@librerialondon
Thursday 7th of May
6.30 pm doors for 7pm start
Celebrating the publication of the 5th edition of Catflap, a print-only magazine of “queer writing with a disco heart” from Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast, we invite you to a conversation featuring Catflap contributors author Juliet Jacques and Jack Thompson, publisher at Cipher Press and co-founder of the Hastings Queer Book Festival, along with Ruth McCarthy from Outburst / Catflap and So Mayer, editor of Catflap issue 5, to discuss why we need queer and trans spaces, publications and events more than ever, and why we have to keep them radical and work in solidarity nationally and internationally in the face of existential challenges.
The event will open with a reading by Keith Jarrett, to celebrate the publication of his incredible new poetry collection Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied from Bad Betty Press.
catflap is published by Outburst Arts through support from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Tickets available here:
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Excited to announce I’ll be interviewing queer legend Michelle Tea about her novel Little F tomorrow evening. Tickets are FREE. I’ll share the link in my stories.
#queerbooks #queerevent #eastlondon #michelletea #lgbtq #literaryfiction #literaryevent #whatsoninlondon #bookevent
Hello! Pizza Hut proofs are in 🍕(SORRY FOR THE EAR WORM)
Out in June from @hmlev ! Any reviewers fancy a read, give us a message
We’ve got some great events lined up so keep your eyes here for news on that
Just over a week until @michelleteaz is in the UK! She’ll be at events talking about Little F, Dopamine Books, and Valencia.
Monday 20th - Worms x Dopamine live podcast recording
Tuesday 21st - Valencia at the LRB (sold out)
Wednesday 22nd - Little F @librerialondon
Thursday 23rd - Little F and @themargatebookshop at CAMP with @jeremyathertonlin
Sunday 26th - @sheffieldindiebookfest
See yous there!
🚨 New Event
Author Double Bill: Curtis Garner & Peter Scalpello
21 April | 7pm | £6
Join us for an evening with Curtis Garner and Peter Scalpello as they discuss their books, Orange and Mirrorstage respectively, and the shared themes of identity, family dynamics, the perils and pleasures of the queer scene, and attempts of reconciliation with the self.
Get 10% off your copies of Orange and Mirrorstage when purchased with a ticket!
🚨 Another book announcement alert! 🚨
We’re so excited to be publishing Ray Filar’s CHOKE this October!
CHOKE is a dyke hooker revenge fantasy novella, in which two sex workers fall in love and go on a ruthless murder spree.
When Leila meets Silvia during a booking with Silvia’s longtime client, the infatuation is instant. Silvia is older, glamorous, charming, and has been working for a lot longer than Leila, who is still new to sex work. Later that evening the two run into each other at a hotel bar, and after a messy night of drugs and sex, begin a romantic relationship that takes a turn when they start murdering clients together.
Traversing the spaces of queer East London and the corporate city, Choke is a propulsive and sexy revenge fantasy mash up of black comedy, psychological (un)realism and literary essay that bends tropes and explores the essence of fantasy, from BDSM and kink to wealth and class to bodies and transness. A wild, fun, smart, and pulpy novella that transforms literary traditions and elevates queer writing.
Ray Filar is a writer and theatre-maker based in London.
Pre-order now at the link in our bio/stories 🔗
Author photo by Christa Holka @christaholkastudio
Cover design by @keepingthewolvesat_bay
Not Little F in VOGUE!!
Huge thanks to @barrypierce for including @michelleteaz ’s brand new book in this list of the season’s sharpest new novels.
Out on the 9th April! Soon! You can pre-order from our site now, and keep an eye here for event news 👀
Oh hello! Who is she!
Very glad to announce that we’re publishing the next book in @michelleteaz & @dopaminebooksla anthology series, CLOWNS, this July!
Following Sluts and Witch, CLOWNS considers the many-sided splendor of the clown.
Featuring an INCREDIBLE cast of contributors, including:
Sophie Robinson! @sophiepoetry
Maz Murray! @maz_murray
Jake Hall! @queerbooktakes
Andrea Lawlor! @anderlawlor
Vivek Shraya! @vivekshraya
Grace Byron! @emotrophywife
And so many others!!
Pre-order now at the link in our bio/stories 🤡
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A blogging dog sitter cringes out on celebrity, Slinkys, and self-promotion. A poet experiences the clowny vulnerability of falling in love. Drunk Muppets ponder the uselessness of art. A transitioning drag queen muses on being “the crazy one, the one who doesn’t give a fuck.” In this anthology of poetry, fiction, screenplay, and more, writers explore and explode the archetype of the CLOWN in all of its humiliating, earnest, magical, subversive glory. From fiction that reveals the humanity beneath the smeared greasepaint to psychedelic autofiction to poetry that exposes normal folk for the sickening anomalies they are, CLOWNS will get under your skin until it liberates your own inner clown, be it a smart-ass or trickster, sad sack or buffoon.
SO happy to see @mbsycamore ’s Terry Dactyl is a finalist for the Lambda Award for Transgender Fiction! Unreal news 🥳
If you haven’t read this one yet - do so! Order link in our stories
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An electric and haunting dive into New York City club culture, the elite art world, the relationships we crave, and the addictions we hold dear, told through one iconoclastic trans girl’s search for connection, from growing up in the midst of the AIDS crisis to the panic of the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Terry Dactyl has lived many lives. Raised by boisterous lesbian mothers in Seattle, she comes of age as a trans girl in the 1980s in a world of dancing queens and late-night house parties just as the AIDS crisis ravages their world. After moving to New York City, Terry finds a new family among gender-bending club kids bonded by pageantry and drugs, fiercely loyal and unapologetic. She lands a job at a Soho gallery, where, after partying all night, she spends her days bringing club culture to the elite art world.
Twenty years later, in a panic during the COVID-19 lockdown, Terry returns to a Seattle stifled by gentrification and pandemic isolation until resistance erupts following the murder of George Floyd, and her search for community ignites once again.
In propulsive, intoxicating prose, Terry Dactyl traces an extraordinary journey from adolescence to adulthood, delivering a vital portrait of queer identity in all its peril and possibility.
