Paul Burston

Paul Burston is a British journalist and author. Born in York and raised in South Wales, Burston attended Brynteg Comprehensive School and studied English, Drama and Film Studies at university. He worked for the London gay policing group GALOP and was an activist with ACT-UP before moving into journalism. He edited, for some years, the gay and lesbian (later LGBT) section of Time Out magazine.

His first novel Shameless, published in 2001, was praised by The New York Times.[1]

He has since published four more novels and two short story collections.

His latest novel 'The Black Path' was published by Accent Press in September 2016 and longlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize. https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/aug/02/not-the-booker-prize-very-longlist-2016-votes-please

He is the founder and host of award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari at the Southbank Centre, and founder of The Polari First Book Prize for new LGBT writing. http://www.polariliterarysalon.co.uk

Bibliography

Non fiction

  • A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture, Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0-415-09618-9
  • What are you Looking at? Queer Sex, Style and Cinema, Continuum International Publishing, 1995. ISBN 0-304-34300-5
  • 'Confessions of A Gay Film Critic' in Anti-Gay Freedom Editions, 1996 (ed. Mark Simpson)
  • Gutterheart: Life According to Marc Almond, 1981-1996, Dunce Directive, 1997, ISBN 0-9522068-6-2
  • Queens' Country, A Tour Around the Gay Ghettos, Queer Spots and Camp Sights of Britain, Little Brown, 1998. ISBN 0-349-11178-2

Fiction

  • Shameless, Abacus, 2001, ISBN 978-0-349-11479-8
  • Star People, Little, Brown, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7515-3849-6
  • Lovers and Losers, Sphere, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7515-3864-9
  • The Gay Divorcee Sphere, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84744-208-6
  • The Black Path Accent Press, 2016, ISBN 9781786150455

Edited works

  • Boys & Girls Glasshouse Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-907536-09-0
  • Men & Women Glasshouse Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-907536-11-3

References

  1. ↑ Schillinger, Liesl (27 June 2004). "'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy - Review". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
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