CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: In Our Words: Queer Stories from Black, Indigenous, and People of Color WritersStory selection by Anne ShadeEdited by Victoria VillaseñorPublisher: Bold Strokes BooksPublication Date: Spring 2021As an LGBTQ+ publisher, Bold Strokes Books strives to ensure that our list of publications represents the cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our world. We believe everyone… Continue reading Call for Submissions for New Anthology
Change, you say? I think I can talk quite a lot about change. I was a child in postwar New York City, in a family of five in a one-bedroom tenement. Blacks were ghettoized, homosexuals were invisible (or hospitalized), and women were ambitionless ‘girls’ whose sole purpose was to attract and keep a man. I… Continue reading Sic Semper Transit Omnia by Justine Saracen
The Bold Strokes Bookathon UK has started! Are you going to join us? We're already having a blast. Get registered over on the Bold Strokes siteand come hang out with us. And click on the photo to get great discounts on the books by the authors attending this weekend!
A couple of days ago I decided to have a day off from my usual job (I mark papers and tutor kids for an online school, so unsurprisingly we’ve been pretty busy during the Coronavirus lockdown!) and spend all of my usual work time writing. I managed 900 words. By the end of the day… Continue reading Manic Crafting by new author Lyn Hemphill
What a truly fantastic few weeks of blogs by our authors. We hope you've been enjoying them too. I think what I've seen is the beautiful depth of character we have among us; people who grieve, people who laugh, people who care deeply. How lucky I am to be among these creative, lovely souls who… Continue reading And here we go…
Life is a constant lineup of experiences that lead to change. That’s profoundly deep I know but by definition, change is to transform or convert. The world’s transformation in the last few months has been staggering. There have been thousands who’ve lost their lives, many more are fighting for their lives, and the rest of… Continue reading The Definition of Change by Ali Vali
A couple of months ago, right before Covid-19 swept through the world, I moved out of London. Not only that but I bought a house with the woman I plan on marrying in the next few years. We're going to get a pet. A pet and a garden shed and hopefully, if we're lucky, children.… Continue reading Happy Changes by Eden Darry
I’ve seen sixty two years of life and they’ve been jam-packed with changes, not just in how life is lived, but in what happened to the ‘facts’ I learned when I was young. Large dinosaurs had two brains, one in their pelvis (oh no they didn’t!), you put butter on a burn to soothe… Continue reading Change is a funny blighter… by Charlie Cochrane
Life is a constantly moving thing, progressing from one state to another, and there can be no progress without some form of change. Change is the life-sustaining essence of us. We look for change to show us signs of life. When change is perceived it offers up markers, points of reference, measurement, and definition. And… Continue reading A Writer’s Purpose by Anna Larner
This is the 11th time there has been a Nottingham-based Bold Strokes Books festival. It’s an event that spans a whole decade. Way back in 2010, the first occasion was one quite formal afternoon in the upstairs room in Waterstones. It’s grown into a two-day celebration, welcoming international authors most years, spilling out of Waterstones into… Continue reading Opportunity and Adventure in Change by Rebecca S. Buck
