Queer Life, Queer Love: An Anthology ed. by Matt Bates and Golnoosh Nour

 
The anthology comprises 43 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. This is writing that explores characters, stories and experiences beyond the mainstream. Celebrating the fascinating, the forbidden, the subversive, and even the mundane, but in essence, the view from outside.
 
The anthology will celebrate two years since the launch of the Muswell Press LGBTQI+ list and will comprise 25 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to capture the best of Queer writing today. Winning entries will be announced in March 2021.
 
The book will be dedicated to the memory of Lucy-Jack Reynolds, the trans daughter of Sarah Beal, publisher at Muswell Press, and niece of co-publisher Kate Beal. A student, musician and strong advocate of LGBTQI rights, she died in March 2020 at the age of 20.