Events and Writing to Inspire You
There are all two free Write Queer London events
LGBT gallery tour - The British Museum 2pm Friday 4th December
Joe Orton Workshop - Islington Museum - 2pm Saturday 5th December.
Come along and be inspired by stories of gay lives from millennia ago to modern times. If you'd like to try your hand at writing but are a bit rusty, draw inspiration and confidence from our free workshops.
Writing fact
For factual pieces, you don't necessarily need to produce orginal research: good pieces of journalism, especially on less familiar gay subjects with a link to London, are very welcome.
Writing fiction
We suggest places and writing exercises for fiction writers (There are also some good leads here if you want to write a factual piece but need some ideas).
Browse the untoldlondon LGBT history section and see how other writers and historians reveal historical gay London.
Read the winning entries from last year
Philip Tang's 'Two Sides of the Boy'. was our fiction winner
Donna Collier's 'Heat Seeker' . won our non-fiction category
and Anna Bendix's poem 'The Purple, White and Green'. was the overall winner.
Judging
The entries will be judged by academic Matt Houlbrook (author of Queer London), Shaun Levin (author of A Year of Two Summers and editor of Chroma) and Anna Bendix (winner, Write Queer London 2009).
Party
The winners will be announced at a prize-giving party on Thursday 4th February 2010, with DJ Paul Burston (author of The Gay Divorcee) at Museum of London.
