Paul Burston

Paul Burston is a Welsh 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]

Burston's novel The Black Path was published by Accent Press in September 2016 and was long-listed in a Guardian "Not The Booker Prize" feature article.[2]

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.[3]

By October 2018, five novels and two short story collections by Burston had been published. In that month, The Bookseller reported that his sixth novel The Closer I Get was published by Orenda Books as part of a two book deal.[4] The Closer I Get, published in July 2019, was partly inspired by the author's experience of online harassment.[5]

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
  • The Closer I Get Orenda Books, 2019, ISBN 978-1912374779

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 15 March 2010.
  2. Jordison, Sam (2 August 2016). "Not the Booker prize (very) longlist 2016: votes, please!". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  3. "Official website of award-winning literary salon". Polari. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  4. Cowdrey, Katherine (15 October 2018). "Orenda signs psychological thriller from Paul Burston in Frankfurt deal". The Bookseller. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  5. Burston, Paul (3 July 2019). "Nightmares, flashbacks and constant fear: how a stalker brought me to my wits' end". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
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