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Reconnecting Rainbows Press
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🌈 Amplifying LGBTQIA+ voices through authentic storytelling.

📚 Poetry. History. Fiction. Children’s books. Emerging talent.

💡 Building community, connection, resistance and resilience.

www.reconnectingrainbows.co.uk

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Reconnecting Rainbows Press @reconnectingrainbo.ws · Dec 31
We've just jumped from Twitter to Bluesky and can't wait to engage with the world without all the toxic smog.

Hello!

We're an independent publisher here in the UK with a focus on queer storytelling. 🌈
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Pre-orders for @suzannewriter.bsky.social's incredible upcoming book 'Dancing in Heaven' are now live! Find out all about the book, the launch events, and how to order on our website.

reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/book/dih/
Dancing in Heaven – Reconnecting Rainbows Press
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November 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Join us and Bea Wohl today for the launch of their debut poetry collection, 'Motorway Service Station Blues'.

Enjoy a snippet from 'Transition Blues' and get your (free) tickets now!

www.outsavvy.com/event/31352/...

#MotorwayServiceStationBlues #poetrybook
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Bea Wohl‘s debut poetry collection, Motorway Service Station Blues, launches this Friday, exploring themes of sorrow, transition, and becoming. Book your tickets for the launch! In the meantime, enjoy this preview of Make-Up Room (created in partnership with @mxdarren_)
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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#Scarborough launch details for #DancingInHeaven

Sat 6 Dec at the Shakespeare Gallery and Studios (part of The Scarborough Fair Fringe Winter Edition)

www.thehouseofcorrection.com/news/dancing...

London launch info to follow...

#HIV #AIDS #WomensVoices @reconnectingrainbo.ws
Dancing in Heaven: Scarborough Launch
Saturday 6 December at the Shakespeare Gallery and Studios , St Helen's Square, Scarborough YO11 1EU (part of the Scarborough Fringe Winter Edition) Free tickets  here  or  here . ​
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November 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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#DancingInHeaven, celebrating #womensvoices from the 1980s #HIV & #AIDS pandemic, launches on 1 December - #WorldAIDSDAY - at Battersea Arts Centre in London at 7 pm. Meet the author and hear some of the monologues performed live.

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London launch event for Dancing in Heaven, Monday 1 December, 7 pm, Battersea Arts Centre
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Coming February 2026, The Boy From Elsewhere by @kestr.al is a book filled with queer joy, Strong role models, and a gripping story that transcends reality itself.

You can find Kestral this weekend at #YALC #YALCuk to find out more!
November 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Today's proud moment - running the very first session of the very first Whitby Literary Festival and reading from my first solo monologue collection, Dancing in Heaven

#Whitby #WhitbyLitFest #Literary
Me in a red flowery shirt reading a monologue and grinning like a Cheshire Cat
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This week's Tubelines launch event in Glasgow has been postponed due to illness - but never fear! The book is available to buy in all good (and mediocre) book shops now, and we hope you'll join us for our rescheduled event on Thursday 13th November!

www.reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/book/tubelines
Glasgow Launch Event for Tubelines: The Poetry of Motion. Thursday 13th November 2025 from 19:30 - 21:00 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow
October 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Ever seen someone scribbling in a notebook on the train? Check out this new collection of poems by Kestral Gaian, out now. Who knows, perhaps they wrote a poem about YOU?
Out now! Find out why everyone is talking about these tales from the tube. Available at Waterstones, Foyles, Blackwell's, Amazon, and More.
October 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Today we're celebrating all of our incredible poets. You're amazing! This year's poetry day theme is play, so in that spirit we encourage you to pick up a pen and just see what comes to mind! Poetry is for EVERYONE, always.
National Poetry Day is HERE! Celebrating the playfulness of language and the power of queer poetry, today and every day.
October 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Join @kestr.al for the launch of Tubelines, their incredible new poetry collection, at events in both London and Glasgow.

Accessible venues, free tickets, and loads of fantastic poetry.

reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/events/
Tubelines Launch Events! London - Saturday 4th October 2025, 16:00 - 18:00 at The Poetry Society. Glasgow - Wednesday 8th October 2025, 18:30 - 20:30 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts
September 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Pre-order @kestr.al's new book of incredible poetry and see why @suddenlyjoseph.bsky.social described it as "gorgeously queer."

Grab a copy ahead of the launch at www.reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/books/tubelines
September 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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We're going to be at #SouthamptonPride all weekend representing queer storytellers and the incredible things they create!

If you're there, or are local to Southampton UK, come say hi to us and some of our authors in the Guildhall and walk away with some fantastically LGBTQ+ stories!
Southampton Pride, 23-24 August. Join us at Southampton Pride this weekend to celebrate queer literature and storytellers!
August 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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We're wishing @linuskarp.bsky.social and @suddenlyjoseph.bsky.social a very happy WEDDING DAY today!

We published Linus' playscript for Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story back in 2023 and totally think you should pick up a copy today as a wedding gift to them.

Best wishes to you both!
August 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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We're pleased to announce that pre-orders for @kestr.al's upcoming poetry book - Tubelines - will go live on September 1st!

Please enjoy this preview of a poem from the book. It was written on the underground after Trans Pride two years ago.

More info at reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/tubelines-pr...
"Riot" by Kestral Gaian
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August 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The book that started it all, with an all new cover! The anniversary edition of our original Trans*(Verse) anthology launches tomorrow. Still full of incredible poems and lyrics, now with a new look!

Full details on our website.
An image with text that reads: "TransVerse Anniversary Edition. New cover, updated bios, same incredible poems & lyrics". Next to the text is an image of the new cover of the book. The cover is white, with black text that reads "TransVerse. We will not be erased. Poems and lyrics by transgender and non-binary writers. Edited by Ash Brockwell." There is a photo of an eraser in the trans colours next to the cover text.
August 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED

TAG 2025 have extended their call for papers for all sessions until August 18th. This includes our session on Queer Archaeology! We are looking for any papers which engage with the legacy of Queer Archaeology 25 years after it was first proposed! More details below!
Poster showing a TAG session call for papers with the extended deadline of August 18th.
August 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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"If you’re somewhere in the middle, between griefs, between plans, between what was and what might be, consider this your gentle reminder: it’s okay to breathe."

I wrote some thoughts on... well, I'm not sure really. Life? Beauty? Crumpets?

news.kestr.al/breathe/
Breathe
A meditation on limbo, loss, and the strange joy of toasting crumpets at noon.
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July 30, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Just signed my first ever book contract - Dancing in Heaven has a target publication date of 1 December 2025 with the wonderful LGBTQ+ publisher Reconnecting Rainbows @reconnectingrainbo.ws

#DancingInHeaven #WomensVoices #HIV
July 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Proud to have contributed to this article written by @onqueerstreet.bsky.social about the new RSE guidance for UK schools and how it feels a lot like Section 28 all over again...

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Is the UK government’s new RSE guidance a return to Section 28?
The worrying parallels in the language used to talk about trans people.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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If you think the de-listing scandal is limited to video games, think again. If they come for LGBTQIA+ content on one platform, they'll come for it all eventually.

We must protect queer narratives and stories however they're told.
July 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Huge congrats to @suzannewriter.bsky.social for running an excellent workshop recently! Please do give her a follow, we're excited to be publishing her work later this year!
June 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Pride month is about reaching everyone. Today felt special. Poetry, activism, and talking with a Q and A.
June 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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This looks incredible! Congrats, @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social!
owenexiehurcum.bsky.social Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social · Jun 2
I am thrilled to say that me and Thomas Dowson will be hosting a session at TAG 2025 titled '25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?'.

We seek submissions that engage with queer archaeology in its broadest sense.

More details here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...
Alt text for this poster can be found here: https://tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-papers/. Scroll down to the section of the webpage tited 25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?
June 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM