About

The Journal

Fruit has been publishing queer authors since 2019. We’re keen to platform unheard voices within the LGBTQI+ community. This includes People of Colour, people with disabilities, trans and working class writers. It also means emerging authors and rule-breaking writing. While providing a platform for queer writing, Fruit is also a space for interaction and exchange. So we always work with contributors to edit their writing for publication and we sometimes run events. Fruit welcomes work in English from anywhere. Since Fruit is based in Manchester (UK), we are especially keen to promote writing from the North of England. To find out more about the Journal, check out this lovely interview.

The Editors

Fruit is co-ordinated by Tom White and co-edited with Tawseef Khan. Tom White is currently working on a PhD at Southampton and Bath Spa universities. Using Liberace’s life as a lens, it explores the strategies that queer people use to survive and find joy. He’s excited by writing that queers language. Favourite poets include Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Caroline Bergvall and CAConrad. He also enjoys Gary Indiana’s prose and the taboo-breaking and genre-blurring work of Samuel R. Delany.

Tawseef Khan completed a doctoral thesis on sexual identity and the British asylum system in 2016. His debut novel Determination is published by Footnote. Muslim, Actually (his book on Islamophobia and Muslim identity) was published by Atlantic Books in 2021. He is looking forward to reading submissions that bring the personal and political together in interesting, hybrid forms. Some of his favourite examples of this include writing by Edouard Louis, Maggie Nelson, Yuko Tsushima, Julian Fuks and J.M. Coetzee.

Issues 1-5 were co-edited with Hannah Levene, who published her debut novel Greasepaint in 2024 and holds a PhD in Creative Writing exploring butch and Yiddish texts.

Accessibility

We want the Journal to be an inclusive space and we aim to make it accessible. A downloadable PDF is available for each issue. And online, audio files accompany each piece of writing.

If you have any questions or comments, email us at: fruit.journal@yahoo.com