Be Gay, Do Crime

Be Gay, Do Crime

by Alissa NuttingAnna Dorn Aurora Mattia and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 03/06/2025

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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.

ISBN:
9781938603457
9781938603457
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-06-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
Dzanc Books
Alissa Nutting

Alissa Nutting is an assistant professor of creative writing at John Carroll University. She is the author of the award winning collection of stories, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls.

Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Oprah, Tin House, Fence and Bomb, among others. This is her first novel.

Anna Dorn

Anna Dorn is the author of the novels Vagablonde and Exalted. She is an associate editor at Hobart Pulp.

She was a Lambda Literary Fellow and her second novel Exalted is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

She lives in Los Angeles.

Priya Guns

Priya Guns is a Creative Writing graduate from Kingston University. A former teacher, she is an actor and PhD student previously published in short story anthologies, gal-dem, Spring magazine, and anonymously in the Guardian.

Your Driver Is Waiting is her debut novel.

Sam Cohen

Sam Cohen was born and raised in suburban Detroit. Her fiction is published in Fence, Bomb, Diagram, and Gulf Coast, among others. The recipient of a MacDowell fellowship and a PhD fellow at the University of Southern California, Cohen lives in Los Angeles.

Soula Emmanuel

Soula Emmanuel is a trans writer who was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Greek father. She attended university in Ireland and Sweden, graduating with a master's in demography which she likes to think inspired her interest in society's outliers.

She has written for IMAGE magazine, Rogue Collective and the Project Arts Centre, and has had fiction published by The Liminal Review. She was longlisted for Penguin's WriteNow programme in 2020, took part in the Stinging Fly fiction summer school in 2021 and was a participant in the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency's mentorship programme for 2021-22. She currently lives on Ireland's east coast.

Molly Llewellyn

Molly Llewellyn is a twenty-something queer, disabled book blogger from the UK.

She is one half of the editing team for PEACH PIT, coming Fall 2023 from Dzanc, which is her first big editing role.

She's a big fan of 'weird women' lit and anything that is the colour green.

Kristel Buckley

Kristel Buckley is an editor, publicist and former publisher from the Big Smoke!

She is more than happy to talk your ear off about the unfaithful representation of women in history, and her passion is a more equitable, inclusive future for all stories from all voices.

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