I am very humbled & proud to announce that once again, I have been short-listed for The Pearl Prize.

It means a lot to be included alongside other LGBTQIA writers and explore elements of Queer experience. I especially enjoyed writing for this year's theme, 'Turning the names inside out', and I can't wait to share more.

https://www.midsumma.org.au/whats-on/events/the-pearl-prize-awards-gala/

#trans #lgbtqia #midsummafestival #thepearlprize #writing #shortstories #lgbtqiawriters #lgbtqiastories #queerstories #queerwriting #queerwriters #queerfiction

What will queer liberation look like 10 or 20 years from now? Is there such a thing as utopia? What’s your vision for peace & safety?
https://medium.com/prismnpen/lets-tell-stories-about-queer-utopia-0c196add6ccf

#LGBTQ #Queer #Writing #QueerWriting #QueerWriters #WritingPrompt

They never built statues of us. But we left signs: a cracked CD-ROM, a carved name in a desk, a username that never logged in again.
My first blog post is live: “Him, They, Them, and Us.” A love letter, an archive, and a refusal to be forgotten.

🔗 https://medium.com/@christopherpryce022/him-they-them-and-us-1ab183f0d946

#QueerWriting #LGBTQ #WorkingClass #WelshWriting #Literature

The Difference Between Admiration and Sexual Attraction

Not every pull is desire.
Sometimes we’re just seeing a part of ourselves in someone else — a trait we admire, a light we haven’t owned.

I wrote about how admiration can feel like attraction, and how time helped me see the difference.

👉🏽 Read:
https://medium.com/illumination/the-difference-between-admiration-and-sexual-attraction-a0b70106cdeb?sk=80b6b5ab0db2b6ddbf466bdd128ef847

#SelfAwareness #QueerWriting #Relationships #Projection #PersonalGrowth

Returning to an idea which already has a potential publisher.

First pitched it to said publisher in December 2021!

I hate having ADHD!

#writing #queerwriting #queerwriters

When I write a novel, my characters come to life. I give each of them a name, a style of speech, a personality, a physical appearance. They have strengths, flaws, firm identities.
https://buff.ly/VW5u8vc

#LGBTQ #Writing #QueerWriting #Writers #CharacterStudy

What’s defeating me this time? Is it the dreaded comma? Too many expletives? Metric versus Imperial? What kind of dash to use?! (Spoilers: there’s more than one.)
No, it’s one simple yet very important thing: pronouns.
https://buff.ly/S660NM6

#LGBTQ #Writing #WritingTips #Nonbinary #QueerCharacters #QueerWriting

I forgot to post here that I had come second for Midsumma's Pearl Prize 🥈
This year's theme was artificial intelligence and I write queer scifi, so had to partake!
You can get the book with my story here: https://www.hares-hyenas.com.au/p/the-pearl-prize-2025-an-anthology-of-queer-writing-from-across-australia-2876365

#Writing #QueerWriting #SciFi #QueerSciFi #ShortStory #Midsumma #PearlPrize #MidsummaPearlPrize #WritingContest

gerade online gegangen

#neueSchreibweisen

#queerwriting

#essay

https://www.tor-online.de/magazin/science-fiction/unsere-zukuenfte-anders-schreiben

My friend @queerwriter put together this amazing project!

You Are Here – peer to peer survivor writing – is Jet's second survivor writers platform; building on the first: Playing With Fire which took place in 2021.

You Are Here offered an expanded series of workshops, a survivor writers group, and a series of interviews for the Wellcome Collection archives.

You can check out the zine, creative pieces produced by the writers group and interviews here: https://jetmoon.org/you-are-here/

#survivor #queer #crip #SMDykes #dyke #lesbian #LGBT #LGBTQ #SickFucks #ResilientAndResisting #QueerWriting #fiction #poetry #DisabilityRights #trans #migration #PerformingArts #UK #London #disability #ChronicIllness #ChronicFatigue #CreativeWriting #literature #QueerHistory #HistoryFromBelow #transfem #transmasc #WorkingClassWriting #WorkingClassQueers #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #addiction #PsychAbolition #trauma #BDSM #HIV #PTSD #HepC #ClassWarfare #genderqueer #kink

in her submission of “hotspur: esperance ma comforte,” writer Carmen Aiken described it as “An excerpt from a hybrid book born from Shakespeare's Henriad and turned into queer pining.”

https://frightenthehorses.com/hotspur-esperance-ma-comforte/

#ExperimentalWriting #LitJournal #QueerWriting

It's December 14th, my yearly tradition of taking a holiday story or song and doing a queer retelling. Now, this year I intended Upon the Midnight Queer, but… well.

Take “Walking in a Winter Wonderland,” then add Giancarlo Herrera and Hannah Schooner’s amazing performance on “A Day (or Two) Ago” from Upon the Midnight Queer audiobook, which coincided at a bakery and inspired this year’s offering—which is also a sequel.

#QueerWriting #QueerChristmas

https://apostrophen.wordpress.com/2024/12/14/wonder/

Tempted to do #writingmonth but a) only 9 days lead and b) how do I decide on just one WIP to work on! :p

When I did it last year I wrote 35k words of Cold Morning

#writing #writingcommunity #queerwriting

A hefty tale of non traditional romance, queer main characters, eldritch ancient creatures, a kingdom turning towards civil war, and two people who just want to be left alone to live their lives, but who are dragged right into the middle of the expanding mess. Sound like your kind of story? Here you go:

https://thescribblinglion.com/product/lies-of-stone-leona-r-wisoker/

#writing #selfPromo #selfPublished #queerWriting #Romance #fantasy #BigAssBooks

For me as a child, there was no real #transgender representation around me.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/the-joy-of-trans-creation-c1afbdf34398?sk=3acc79378743af29dd14a63089c9686b

#LGBTQ #Writing #QueerWriting #QueerArt #Pride

In the latest issue of Brevity, Sila Hansen pens a lovely flash craft essay (short essay on design) on an important aspect of good writing: "Against Being Good."

"For the same several years, I have failed miserably at writing this essay. I couldn’t figure out why. It felt dishonest, even when everything I wrote was “true.” I’ve put it aside and restarted it dozens of times..."

https://brevitymag.com/current-issue/against-being-good/

#writing #queerwriting #transwriting #narrativedesign #voice #writingstyle

It's December 14th, so it's time for my yearly tradition of taking a holiday story or song and doing a queer re-telling.

This year it's "Most of '81," inspired by a favourite holiday song, "Christmas Wrapping" and the realization of what '81 was for queer folk in Toronto...

#QueerWriting #QueerChristmas

https://apostrophen.wordpress.com/2023/12/14/most-of-81/