Upcoming events.
The Milkman's on His Way @ the Book Market, Exeter City of Literature
Lurid will be presenting our new edition of The Milkman’s on His Way by Exeter-based author David Rees as part of Exeter City of Literature’s annual book market.
Further details coming soon!
The Milkman's on His Way: Republication Launch - Manchester
Join Paul Baker, who introduces Lurid's new edition of The Milkman's on His Way and is author of Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education, in conversation with Niall Curry, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, as they discuss the republication of a book Sir Ian McKellen describes as "a gay classic.”
Milkman's on His Way @ SHARP 2024, Reading
In conversation: The Milkman's on His Way - Republishing Queer Young Adult Fiction
D-M Withers in conversation with Chris Adams
Milkman’s on His Way - Free Lunchtime lecture - Bristol
In this free lunchtime lecture, D-M Withers, Lecturer in Publishing at the University of Exeter and Director of Lurid Editions, will draw on the David Rees archives held in Special Collections at the University of Exeter, to present The Milkman’s on His Way as an important chapter in gay cultural history.
D-M will also offer insights about republishing queer books that have fallen out of print.
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The Awakening of Indian Women Book Launch
Online Book launch, The Awakening of Indian Women by Kamaladevi Chattophadyay & Others.
In partnership with the Women’s Library @LSE.
Join an esteemed panel of historians and writers to celebrate the republication of an early anti-imperial feminist classic.
First published on the eve of the Second World War and, until now, buried in the archives, this unique document from the first global feminist movement is testimony to the deep historical roots of revolutionary feminist thought and action.
For Amia Srinivasan, Kamaladevi’s The Awakening of Indian Women is “radical and visionary” and “deserves a place on feminist reading lists and in the wider transnationalist feminist imagination. Among other things, it is a potent reminder that feminism is not an invention or prerogative of the West.”
Pre-order your copy of Awakening now.
Panel members:
Sumita Mukherjee, Associate Professor in Modern History, University of Bristol and author of Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks (2018).
Kama Maclean, Professor of History in the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and author of A Revolutionary History of Interwar India (OUP 2015).
Uditi Sen, Director of Liberal Arts and Associate Professor specialising in the History of South Asia at University of Nottingham.
Rosalind Parr, Lecturer in Modern History, Glasgow Caledonian University and author of Citizens of Everywhere: Indian Women, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1920-1952 (2022).
Chaired by Amina Yaqin, Associate Professor in World Literatures and Publishing, University of Exeter, and author of Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (2022).
LGBTQ+ Literature Panel
Listen to a panel and chat with the publisher, D-M Withers, Kirsti Bohata, Swansea University, Elizabeth English, and Edith England from Cardiff Met University about the importance of republishing this landmark in lesbian and queer literature.
Participants of the Amgueddfa Cymru Proud Writing workshops read from their queer writings.
Watch the short film, “Sally Leapt Out of A Window Last Night” and chat with director Tracy Spottiswoode.
Booking information here.
Rediscovering the Ladies of Llangollen
Mary Gordon’s historical fiction about the Ladies of Llangollen, first published by the Hogarth Press in 1936, is the forgotten queer novel of the interwar era – an amiable companion to Woolf’s time-traveling Orlando and joyful antidote to the misery of The Well of Loneliness.
Out of print since the 1940s, Chase of the Wild Goose has been republished by Lurid Editions, making the book available to contemporary readers for the first time.
Join publisher D-M Withers, historian Alison Oram and writer Frances Bingham to discuss a book described by Sarah Waters as a ‘fascinating piece of queer literary history.’
Chaired by Norena Shopland.
Please note: this is a ticketed, online event.
Book your ticket here. Book your ticket here.
Chase of the Wild Goose - Bookhaus Panel
Publisher D-M Withers is joined by literary scholars Elizabeth English and Tara K Puri, alongside art historian Freya Gowrley, to discuss Lurid’s republication of Chase of the Wild Goose.
£5 entry, tickets include a free glass of wine or soft drink and £2 off a copy of the book. Get your ticket here!
Chase of the Wild Goose Valentine's Day Special
Artist Sarah-Joy Ford in conversation with Daniel Fountain and Jana Funke celebrate Mary Gordon’s Chase of the Wild Goose.
Chase of the Wild Goose Launch at Gay’s the Word
Publisher of Lurid Editions D-M Withers presents the republication of Chase of the Wild Goose.
A special launch event at Gay’s the Word bookshop, taking place as part of the Queer Bibliography: Tools, Methods, Practices, Approaches conference.
Free entry, drinks and nibbles provided.