Queer Life, Queer Love: Vol 2

The winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of queer writing from around the globe.

Following the critically acclaimed Queer Life, Queer Love comes the second anthology, championing the fiction, poetry, memoir, essay, and flash fiction of new and emerging writers alongside established authors.

The anthology will comprise 30 pieces of writing, 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.

Matt Bates is the editor of Muswell Press's LGBTQi+ list.

Julia Bell is a writer and academic. She is the author of novels as well as the Creative Writing Coursebook (Macmillan) and the book-length essay Radical Attention (Peninsula Press). Her essays and short stories have been published 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 Hymnal is forthcoming with Parthian in spring 2023. She is a Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.

Sarah Beal and Kate Beal are the Publisher and co-Publisher at Muswell Press.