Queer Life, Queer Love

Julia Bell is a writer and academic, she is the author of novels, the bestselling Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan) and the book-length essay Radical Attention (Peninsula Press). Her essays and short stories have been published nationally and internationally including in the TLS, the White Review and the Paris Review and broadcast on the BBC. Her poetry has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Her memoir-in-verse is Hymnal is forthcoming with Parthian is spring 2023. She is a Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London. Matt Bates is Editor-at-Large for Muswell Press, and an associate poetry editor for The Mechanics Institute Review. Matt was formerly the Fiction Buyer for WHSmith Travel where he curated the award-winning Fresh Talent promotion and numerous other queer related promotions. He has been a judge for the Costa Book Prize (Novel) and chair for The Booksellers Association Debut Fiction Category Prize. Kate and Sarah Beal are the Publishers of Muswell Press

"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"