$24.99
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2026
Summary
The inaugural collection in the new VERVE Voices series, Queerphoria is a joyful and defiant queer-authored anthology proudly supporting Switchboard, the national LGBTQIA+ support line.
Four housemates welcome the reader into their home for a birthday party. An elderly widow visits her first queer bar, beneath the flat she shared with her husband. A couple invite a shipwrecked sailor into their isolated lighthouse on the stormy night of their thirtieth anniversary. A single w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857309488 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 085730948X |
| Author: | Dylin Hardcastle, Seth Insua, Elle Nash, James Cahill, Chloe Michelle Howarth, William Rayfet Hunter, Joshua Jones, Joelle Taylor, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Chloe Howarth, William Hunter, Gerardo Córdova, Santanu Bhattacharya |
| Publisher: | Verve Books |
| Imprint: | Verve Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 198mm |
Critics Review
Features brilliant new work by dozens of vital voices… The overarching theme of queer joy feels particularly needed right now * DIVA *
Dylin Hardcastle
Dylin Hardcastle
Dylin Hardcastle (he/they) is an award-winning author, artist, screenwriter and former Provost’s Scholar at the University of Oxford. They are the author of four critically acclaimed books, translated into eight languages. Dylin is the co-writer and co-director of Cloudy River. Their most recent novel, A Language of Limbs, has been optioned by Sony Pictures and is in development.
Seth Insua
Seth Insua is an Anglo-Spanish writer and artist. Born in Kent in 1989, he graduated from the University of Oxford with a First in English Language and Literature. He has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and The London Magazine’s Short Story Competition, and was a semi-finalist in the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. He lives with his husband, David, between Newcastle upon Tyne and Madrid. Human, Animal is his first novel.
Elle Nash
Elle Nash (she/her) is a British-American author and editor known for her fearless exploration of desire, identity, and the human condition. Her most recent novel, Deliver Me, is a ‘darkly vivid examination of faith, obsession and alienation’ and was longlisted for Fiction Book of the Year by the Saltire Society. She is also the author of debut novel Animals Eat Each Other (2018), the short story collection Nudes (2021), and the novella Gag Reflex (2022). Her work has appeared in Guernica, BOMB, Literary Hub, Cosmopolitan, Mslexia, The Spectator, Columbia Journal, Southwest Review, New York Tyrant, and more. She is currently based in Glasgow.
Chloe Michelle Howarth
Chloe Michelle Howarth was born in July 1996. She grew up in the West Cork countryside, which has served as an inspiration for her writing. Chloe currently lives in Brighton. Her debut novel, Sunburn, was shortlisted for the 2024 Polari First Book Prize, the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award at the British Book Awards, and the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction, and longlisted for the 2024 Diverse Book Awards.
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