Fruit Journal
@fruitjournal.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Queer Literary Journal. Publishing LGBTQ+ writers since 2019. fruitjournal.co.uk
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈If you like what you see, then please know that we are OPEN for SUBMISSIONS (!!), albeit to queer writers of colour ONLY for now.
We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎
See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/ 8/ ☺️☺️
We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎
See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/ 8/ ☺️☺️
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Submissions open until 30th November 2025 Who Can Submit Any Writer of Colour who identifies as LGBTQ+ is welcome. What to Submit Creative Writing For us, ‘queer writing’ is disruptive and boundary…
fruitjournal.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈If you like what you see, then please know that we are OPEN for SUBMISSIONS (!!), albeit to queer writers of colour ONLY for now.
We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎
See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/ 8/ ☺️☺️
We want to read your boundary-bending writing – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid & visual work all welcome!🍎
See our guidelines: fruitjournal.co.uk/submit/ 8/ ☺️☺️
🍎🍊🍎What about a poem? @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social has a brilliant one in our second issue, full of spittle and gum and coral throats?! 😍
fruitjournal.co.uk/2020/06/21/w... 6/ 🍊🍎🍊
fruitjournal.co.uk/2020/06/21/w... 6/ 🍊🍎🍊
fruitjournal.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🍎🍊🍎What about a poem? @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social has a brilliant one in our second issue, full of spittle and gum and coral throats?! 😍
fruitjournal.co.uk/2020/06/21/w... 6/ 🍊🍎🍊
fruitjournal.co.uk/2020/06/21/w... 6/ 🍊🍎🍊
🍍🍊We've also had some terrific artwork as part of our issues.
Why not check out @badaude.bsky.social's watercolours from our very first issue? They're gorgeous!
fruitjournal.co.uk/2019/12/30/a... 5/ 🍍🍊
Why not check out @badaude.bsky.social's watercolours from our very first issue? They're gorgeous!
fruitjournal.co.uk/2019/12/30/a... 5/ 🍍🍊
But/Also: Visuals for ‘Grow a Pair’
[Joanna Walsh] So I haven’t done any visual work for a long time, long before I made the stories for these paintings. ‘Made’, ‘visual work’, those are words I wouldn&#…
fruitjournal.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
🍍🍊We've also had some terrific artwork as part of our issues.
Why not check out @badaude.bsky.social's watercolours from our very first issue? They're gorgeous!
fruitjournal.co.uk/2019/12/30/a... 5/ 🍍🍊
Why not check out @badaude.bsky.social's watercolours from our very first issue? They're gorgeous!
fruitjournal.co.uk/2019/12/30/a... 5/ 🍍🍊
🍉🍓 We've also been lucky to publish authors and writing that we're ridiculously proud of.
Why not check out our interview with the inimitable @mbsycamore.bsky.social about their brilliant new book Terry Dactyl?
fruitjournal.co.uk/2025/05/03/t... 4/ 🍉🍓
Why not check out our interview with the inimitable @mbsycamore.bsky.social about their brilliant new book Terry Dactyl?
fruitjournal.co.uk/2025/05/03/t... 4/ 🍉🍓
‘the ways we come together and fail and flail’
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author, most recently, of Touching the Art, a finalist for a Washington State Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award. Her previous title, The Freezer Door,…
fruitjournal.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🍉🍓 We've also been lucky to publish authors and writing that we're ridiculously proud of.
Why not check out our interview with the inimitable @mbsycamore.bsky.social about their brilliant new book Terry Dactyl?
fruitjournal.co.uk/2025/05/03/t... 4/ 🍉🍓
Why not check out our interview with the inimitable @mbsycamore.bsky.social about their brilliant new book Terry Dactyl?
fruitjournal.co.uk/2025/05/03/t... 4/ 🍉🍓
🍇🍎 You can read our past issues here:
fruitjournal.co.uk
We've published people from all over the world, from Costa Rica to Nigeria, to Australia. And we've covered topics as diverse as eggs, IUDs and Danny Dyer! 🍎🍇 2/
fruitjournal.co.uk
We've published people from all over the world, from Costa Rica to Nigeria, to Australia. And we've covered topics as diverse as eggs, IUDs and Danny Dyer! 🍎🍇 2/
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Queer Literary Journal
fruitjournal.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
🍇🍎 You can read our past issues here:
fruitjournal.co.uk
We've published people from all over the world, from Costa Rica to Nigeria, to Australia. And we've covered topics as diverse as eggs, IUDs and Danny Dyer! 🍎🍇 2/
fruitjournal.co.uk
We've published people from all over the world, from Costa Rica to Nigeria, to Australia. And we've covered topics as diverse as eggs, IUDs and Danny Dyer! 🍎🍇 2/