(Silver) Sapphic Pride!

As a queer of a particular age and hair-colour (what hair remains, that is), one of the things you can't help but notice as you age is how people your age just sort of... vanish. That's a problem far from solely found within the queer community (though my experience is the queer community often has …

Saints & Sinners Short Fiction Contest Finalists

The second newsletter listing the finalists from the Saints & Sinners Literary Festival is out, and so now I can bring you the full list. Huge congratulations to my fellow finalists! The finalists (and their short stories) are: Rich Barnett: The Most Unusual Sweet Potato Competition Sally Bellerose: Discretion, 1957 'Nathan Burgoine: Sweet William Jerry Rabushka: Trumpet …

Queermas

There are two weeks left to shop for Christmas, which means you're probably thinking about it quite a bit. If you're done, congratulations—in my experience of retail, you're ahead of the curve. If you're well on your way, don't panic. Two weeks can be more than enough time. And if you've not yet started, well, …

Writing Wednesday – The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival

Usually, my 'Writing Wednesday' is an opportunity to force myself to publicly admit how much (or how little) I've been getting done on my novel and/or short pieces since a week earlier. The short answer this week is this: not much, because I went to New Orleans for the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. A …