Author: fruitjournal

  • Vivien Holmes

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    Vivien Holmes is a new writer based in Manchester. Her published debut ‘CircuitJammer’ is forthcoming in Speculative Masculinities from Galli Books in early 2021, and her self-published work can be found here and here.

  • Yas Necati

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    Yas Necati is a writer and performance poet based in London. They explore themes of queer and trans identity, migrant identity, mental health, recovery, community and resistance in their writing. They are part of London Queer Writers, and recently set up writing groups for people of colour. When they are not immersed in poetry, they…

  • Ruth Horsfall

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    Ruth is a writer living in the UK, but grew up a settler on the unceded land of the Wiradjuri people. She has conventional interests such as reading and writing poetry, and Harry Styles.

  • Matt Kennedy

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    Matt Kennedy (he/him) is a poet, activist and boxer from Cork, Ireland. He has been involved in activism pertaining to trans liberation, trans healthcare and reproductive justice for the past 5 years and is dedicated to anti-capitalist grassroots action. His master’s thesis involved a queer autoethnographic exploration of his own trans masculinity and catalysed his…

  • Lotte Reford

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    Lotte Mitchell Reford is a Glasgow-based poet, writer and editor. She has previously had work published in, among other places, The Moth, Cosmonauts Avenue, Hobart, Pilot Press’ Modern Queer Poets anthology, New Writing Scotland and Copper Nickel. Her first Pamphlet, and we were so far from the sea of course the hermit crabs were dead…

  • Lew Furber

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    Lew Furber is a writer, classical guitarist, and guitar teacher. His work has most recently appeared in Clavmag and Capsule Stories, and in 2020 he was longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. Find him on Twitter: @LewFurber

  • Al Anderson

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    Al Anderon’s ’Tenderloin’ is published by Blush in 2021. Some recent poems can be found in Spam, Datableed, Spoonfeed and Modern Queer Poets. He’s doing a PhD at the University of East Anglia concerned with faggotry, embarrassment and the Baroque.

  • Niven Govinden in Conversation

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    Niven Govinden is the author of six novels and many short stories. His work explores the imagined lives of artists, reckless Bohemians, and people with dual heritage. He writes about love, death, and how to live. Govinden’s novel This Brutal House revives the Pose, Paris is Burning-era of New York City ballroom, and it weaves…

  • Pictures of the Floating World [Ryan French]

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    Ryan Peter French is an artist currently based in Manchester. His practice spans multiple forms of media – primarily painting, illustration and digital art. The subject matter of his work lies in the human condition, our ability to share and connect experiences through visual language, and the necessity of fantasy in the face of reality.…

  • The Health Proxy Conversation

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    [Alexandra Bildsoe] ‘The Health Proxy Conversation’ is an excerpt from ‘Appendix’ first published in The New Manifesto, Issue 13. You can find out more about this quarterly zine at alexandrabildsoe.com.  Alexandra Bildsoe writes, draws, and makes zines in the Hudson Valley of New York. She studied studio art at Beloit College, authorial illustration at Falmouth…