Author: fruitjournal

  • Shakeema Smalls

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    Shakeema Smalls is from Georgetown, South Carolina.  Her work has been published in a variety of outlets including Honey Literary, Hayden’s Ferry, Emergent Literary, Tidal Basin Review, Root Work Journal, Radius Lit, Free Black Space, Vinyl Poetry and Prose, Rigorous, and A Gathering of the Tribes Magazine, among others. She is a Tin House Workshop and VONA…

  • m.v. riasanovsky

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    m.v. riasanovsky is a nonbinary, queer, disabled, and autistic poet living in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in central Virginia. They have self-published several zines and have been part of DIY/alt-lit writing communities. They are currently a grant writer and are passionate about leftist movements. You can find more of their work at…

  • jake s. frances ferguson

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    jake s. frances ferguson is a (gender)queer Irish poet in Leeds. Their poetry has been featured in Impossible Archetype, Queerlings and Poetry and Audience. An extract of their ongoing medievalist project wulf and eadwacer and i was longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize 2023 and their erasure poetry is currently displayed at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds until…

  • Cherry Potts

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    Joy//Us is out now. Click here for Joy//Us events in queer spaces in south, north-east, west and central London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Shropshire… and possibly more. Cherry Potts is an author and editor, and winner of the Quill LGBTQ+ Prose Prize 2022. She is the Director of Arachne Press and runs the literature and music festival…

  • Tom Marshman

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    Tom Marshman has been a practising theatre maker for 25 years, producing over 60 projects across different mediums. An overarching theme of his work is that of the outsider and their stories, particularly those that have been omitted through archival silence. Over his career he has presented work at: Bristol Old Vic, Battersea Arts Centre,…

  • Lydia Rose

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    Lydia Rose is a multi-disciplinary artist specialising in creative writing and cultural organising. As a queer, neurodivergent woman of colour and an intersectional eco-feminist and abolitionist, her writing and art focus on expressing her lived experiences and building life-affirming relations and systems through radical creativity and collaboration. Her writing has been published in multiple zines…

  • Editorial

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    For more information on Palestine, check out Queers In Palestine. You can donate to Palestinian people through Gaza Funds.

  • Saadat Munir

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    Saadat Munir is a founder and creative director of Aks International Minorities Festival, Film – Art – Dialogue. The festival aims to illuminate the lives of transgender and queer people of colour living in Pakistan, Denmark and the UK. Munir also runs Madari Films, a production company that focuses on realistic cinema. In his short…

  • A Mile of Black Paper

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    Greg Thorpe is a writer, curator and creative producer. He is Festival Director for GAZE Film Festival, Dublin. gregthorpe.eu

  • ‘Having your lyric cake and eating it’

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    References: [1] “just to distract you like the inside”: a correspondence wrapped up in Bernadette Mayer’s poetry; [2] Pleasure and Provocation: Kay Gabriel Interview with Jordy Rosenberg; [3] A+E COLLECTIVE; [4] Enter a Cloud: On / With / For / After W.S. Graham Colin Herd is a poet and lecturer at the University of Glasgow.…