The Polari Prize is a British literary award for a “first book which explores the LGBT experience”. It is open to fiction, poetry and non-fiction, which must make it very hard to judge. I’m delighted to see that my friend Jack Wolf has made it onto the Long List with his very fine novel, The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones, which I reviewed here. Good luck, Jack!

I know very little about the rest of the long list. However, Realisations by Andie Davidson is a book of trans-themed poetry. I believe that Andie will be at the literature tent of the main Brighton Pride this weekend.