Join the Queer Words Project Scotland for a Valentine’s Day date with a difference at Category Is Books, celebrating the launch of We Were Always Here, a brand new anthology of queer Scottish writing from 404 Ink. 

From drag queens and discos to black holes and monsters, these stories and poems wrestle with love and loneliness and the fight to be seen. By turns serious and fantastical, hilarious and confrontational, We Were Always Here addresses the fears, mysteries, wonders and variety of experience that binds our community together. 

Join writers Ciara Maguire, Zoe Storrie and Callum Harper and editors Ryan Vance and Michael Lee Richardson for an evening of readings and conversation on queer lurve and queer literature.

Callum Harper
Callum Harper is an aspiring poet born and raised around the South Lanarkshire area. Between writing and submitting, he is currently working towards a bachelor’s degree in English at Edinburgh Napier University. ‘To Be Divine’ is his first published poem. @Callum_Harper_

Ciara Maguire
Ciara Maguire is a writer and community organiser. She writes about LGBTQ culture and relationships and has written a number of short films with filmmaking collective Lock Up Your Daughters. She was named one of the Young Womens Movement ‘30 under 30 Inspirational Women’ for her work with Free Pride.

Zoe Storrie 
Zoe Storrie is from a tiny village in Dumfries and Galloway but now lives in Glasgow. She graduated with a BA(Hons) in English and Creative Writing from the University of Strathclyde in 2014. Since has since been involved in youth work, teaching and roaming the streets in search of cats. @zstoz

This event is free but ticketed.

Getting there

You can get the train to Queens Park station from Glasgow Central Station, or any bus running down Victoria Road or Pollokshaws Road. There is a specific parking space outside the shop, and most of the surrounding area is free to park in.

Accessibility

The shop is level-access for wheelchair users. Lighting is autism friendly.

There is no customer toilet in the bookshop.

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