Author: fruitjournal

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  • Saleem Haddad in Conversation

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    Saleem Haddad‘s writing spans novels, short stories, essays, film, and television. His critically acclaimed first novel, Guapa (2016), was awarded both a Stonewall Honour and the Polari Prize. His writing has been supported by institutions such as Yaddo and the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. His second novel, Floodlines, was published in February 2026. Joseph Devine studied Arabic…

  • Callie Jennings

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    Callie Jennings (@aporianautics) is a trans writer, musician, & game designer. She received the 2025 Zone 3 Editor’s Award, 2024 Stacy Doris Prize, and 2023 Bennett Nieberg Transpoetic Broadside Prize, and has work in Fourteen Hills, Fifth Wheel Press, manywor(l)ds and Fruit Journal #7. Her newsletter is at  threemachineexpression.substack.com, and chances are she’s dancing.

  • Saleem Haddad

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    Saleem Haddad’s writing spans novels, short stories, essays, film, and television. His critically acclaimed first novel, Guapa (2016), was awarded both a Stonewall Honour and the Polari Prize. His writing has been supported by institutions such as Yaddo and the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin. His second novel, Floodlines, was published in February 2026.

  • Abigail Cain

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    Abigail Cain (she/he) is a lesbian writer hailing from rural Pennsylvania, though her better days are spent travelling. Her work can be found in Eunoia Review, Jardin Zine, and more. His debut novelette, Girls are Fish, will be released in 2027 through Girl Noise Press. When she is not writing, she is carefully curating a small corner of the internet for weird girl lit…

  • Nirris Nagendrarajah

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    Nirris Nagendrarajah is a writer from Toronto whose work centres around fiction, film, opera and himself. In addition to Metatron Press, his work has appeared in Public Parking, MUBI Notebook, Little White Lies, CBC Arts, Literary Review of Canada, In the Mood Magazine, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. In 2026, he received the Telefilm…

  • elise tyson

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    elise tyson is a queer writer and filmmaker from Australia, now living in London. Her writing has been published online by The Guardian UK, Heroica Online, The Queerness, Poetry Proletariat, River’s Edge, Fairlight Books & Tin Can Poetry, as well as in print by PRISM International & Samfiftyfour. Her short film ‘St Bernie’ screened at fifteen film…

  • Satrio Nindyo Istiko

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    Satrio Nindyo Istiko or Tiko (he/she) is a writer and migration-health social scientist. He writes about gender, sexuality and race. Visit his website for more information.

  • Costantino Toth

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    Costantino Toth is a researcher, warehouse worker and writer. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, The Good Life Review, The Rumpus, and Two Thirds North. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, while residing in Florida with Romoletto, her little…

  • Shane Allison

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    Shane Allison was bit by the writing bug at the age of fourteen. He spent a majority of his high school life shying away in the library behind desk cubicles writing bad love poems about boys he had crushes on. He has since gone on to publish five collections of poetry with Turbulent (Hysterical Books)…