Author: fruitjournal

  • Christopher Barnes

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    Christopher Barnes worked on a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, including a film piece by the artist Predrag Pajdic in which he read his poem ‘On Brenkley St’.

  • Peterson Toscano

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    Peterson Toscano is a queer writer and performance artist whose work explores faith, power, bodies, and the uneasy spaces where belief and politics collide. His writing appears in The Gay & Lesbian Review, The Advocate, Geez Magazine, and Unlikely Stories. He hosts and produces Quakers Today and his experimental audio project Bubble & Squeak. He…

  • Gianna Starble

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    Gianna Starble (they/them) is a writer and performer with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. Their work has been featured in Outskirts Literary Journal, Foglifter, and fugue. They’ve been an artist in residence at The Sable Project. They love dogs deeply, especially their dog, Blue.

  • Rachel Sykes

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    Rachel Sykes is a Birmingham-based writer and researcher, who teaches gender and sexuality studies. They’ve written personal essays for This Recording, The Toast, and The Hairpin and reviews and articles for The Independent, Yahoo News, and both the LSE and Glasgow Review of Books. They’re currently working on a book about working-class communities on the Welsh borders.

  • Amy Grandvoinet

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    Amy Grandvoinet is a writer & artist trying for a PhD on so-called literary psychogeographies between Aberystwyth and Cardiff universities. She currently teaches at Liverpool John Moores University and is a co-founder of think.material Press and always works on a number of side-projects. Plîs, won’t you find out more at amygrandvoi.net??

  • Redd Glass

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    Redd Glass lives in Toronto. Their work has appeared most recently in Silly Goose Press.

  • Dom Birch

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    Dom Birch is a trans writer and educator living in Oxford (currently). Their work explores the messy reality of being a femme. They have poetry forthcoming in Glossy Planet and The Gentian, and are working on a pamphlet: An Hour with The Dead Girls.

  • Jennifer Ingleheart

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    Jennifer Ingleheart’s day job is Professor of Latin at Durham University, where she explores Rome’s role in LGBTQ+ history. Her Polari (per)versions of the Roman poet Catullus are designed to be read out loud with a slight Cockney accent, and can also be found in Shearsman and Stand magazines. She has performed at Polari Literary Salon and the…

  • Sheridan Walter

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    Sheridan Walter is a queer South African poet and doctor whose work traces the faultlines between law, faith and the ungovernable body. They live in rural KwaZulu-Natal and hold a Master’s in Philosophy.

  • Majid Parsa

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    Majid Parsa (pseudonym) is a gay Iranian author living in London. He grew up in Iran before moving to the UK in 2010. His debut, The Ayatollah’s Gaze (May 2025), is a memoir of growing up gay in a devout Muslim family under the Islamic Republic and Tehran’s hidden flamboyant gay scene.