Category: Articles
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I gave up drinking and felt like I lost my queerness – ‘Metro UK’
‘After a friend’s birthday in March 2018, we arrived home at 5:30am and he threw up in the driveway. Shots and strong doubles had consumed us with no concern for our overdrawn bank accounts. We’d danced, laughed, danced some more, and had semi-philosophical-sometimes-existential-but-mostly-nonsensical-conversations while we smoked on the roof terrace.’ You can read the full…
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Everything My Straight Friends Told Me About Sex Was Wrong – ‘Huffington Post UK’
‘My first time hadn’t gone as I’d anticipated. A stocky man with hair on his chest scrolled through his emails on the bed and made no attempt to cover his nakedness. He occasionally glanced at me as I pulled on my jeans and shirt. The hotel room felt like an Edward Hopper painting, lit by…
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‘Pain and Glory’: What makes us who we are? – ‘Storyhouse’
‘In Pain and Glory, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest feature, there is a moment during a flashback scene that I distinctly recognised. A young boy sees a grown man naked for the first time. Eduardo (César Vincente) is a truly beautiful man, with delicate features and deep brown eyes, who has been helping the family fix up…
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An LGBTQ+ Guide to Chester – ‘Storyhouse’
‘You might not look at Chester and think of the city as somewhere that has much of a LGBT+ scene. On the surface it can look as though it’s incredibly limited, especially since the city’s only gay bar, Bar 69, closed in 2018. However, with the introduction of Chester’s first Pride festival in in 2013…
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Letting the Vines Snap: On Animals (2019) and Friendship – ‘Sundance London’
“Maybe that’s why we fuck things up – so that peace, when it comes, feels like enough.’ – Animals, Emma Jane Unsworth Through my early twenties, I had a best friend. We were in a bigger group of seven but as part of an unspoken rule we were each other’s ‘emotional support’. Our group was…
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How To: Keep Your Houseplants Alive (Without a Human Sacrifice) – ‘Storyhouse’
‘Are you having trouble keeping your house plants happy? Are they giving you nothing but heartache and hurt? Lift up your head and wash off your mascara. Here, take my Kleenex. There’s no need to cry. It can be HARD keeping plants alive. They can look like they’re happy and healthy one day and the next, they’re withering…
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Emma Jane Unsworth – ‘Why do we do the things we do to each other?’ (Interview) – ‘In The Red 14’
‘JR: In terms of giving it away to the publishers there is also that sense of giving it away to a reader and it becoming theirs. How did you deal with that? I imagine at a point you’d have to let go, in a sense, and the book becomes other people’s? How was that for…
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James Rice – ‘A writer is a thing you can actually be.’ (Interview) – ‘In The Red 14’
‘JPR: You’re still a young writer, but what advice would you give to young writers or new writers? JR: It’s always a hard one that. I always say the same thing. When I decided to write I always thought of it as ‘a writer is a thing you can actually be.’ There are writers.…
Jon Paul Roberts 