Maame Blue

Bad Love

Myriam Gurba

Alissa Nutting

SJ Sindu

Sam Cohen

Venita Blackburn

Anna Dorn

Marisa Crane

Aurora Mattia

Priya Guns

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Soula Emmanuel

Temim Fruchter

Myriam Lacroix

Kristel Emma Buckley

Molly Llewellyn with Emily Austin

francesca ekwuyasi

A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi

A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos

Be Gay, Do Crime

The Rest of You

Psychotherapy is a collection of poems that explores the conscious, subconscious and unconscious processes of an ex-therapist and budding writer. Maame Blue takes the reader through the dark comedy of online dating with "Supermarket Sweep", the nostalgia of love long-since lost with "The Algorithm of Us" and the routine abnormalities that come with being a Londoner, via the poem "Delay".This collection is a salute and a farewell to therapy, with its intricacies, its burdens and its warmth.

Psychotherapy

What was 2014 like for you? For Maame Blue, it was a year filled with love, hate and hope, and she explores these themes in her poetry collection, 'Twenty Fourteen: A Recollection'. Maame Blue's poems present an uninhibited, heartbreaking and sometimes hopeful view of her life during that year; and illustrate the rare moments of significance we can all experience in twelve short months.

A Recollection

Twenty Fourteen

Maame Blue

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