Andrew Cheffings is an author of LGBTQ+ Fiction. Join me for: local place/local culture through a Queer lens; Queer Romance; and a spirituality grounded in Queer Ecology.
Andrew Cheffings is an author of LGBTQ+ Fiction. Join me for: local place/local culture through a Queer lens; Queer Romance; and a spirituality grounded in Queer Ecology.
Teenager Harry Dixon is feeling ill, desperate and lonely as the last summer term at his dreadful high school grinds on – until his quirky Parisian friend Xavier comes to visit. Mischievous, amiable, distracting… and attractive, Xavier might be just the medicine Harry needs...
As time passes and the two boys grow up, their childhood problems...
Following an unfortunate incident 90 years earlier, life at Green Twining Farm seems terminally blighted. But, by the summer of 1985, Joe – the farmer’s son – has secretly fallen in love with David, his handsome work friend at the town hall. And Joe wonders if David feels the same way about him. Then – when Tim, Joe’s former musical friend,...
In 'The House With The Round Window' Andrew Cheffings explores how subgroups can form within society which become coercive and create intense power structures, difficult to escape from.
John is a young middle-aged man working at a Community Music Centre in the small town of St Herefriths on the edge of the Lincolnshire Marsh. In many...
London is full of echoes and shadows of the past. Sometimes this past was barbarically cruel towards those who were different. These poems are poems of remembering and healing.
One of the themes of ‘Green Twining’ is how – as part of Nature and the Earth itself – when we come together, in friendship or in romance, our unity reflects and actualises the unity of reality.
Romance can have a deep spiritual quality! It can be a real awakening, especially within the Queerness of Nature!
As a young, gay man, living out on the Lincolnshire Marsh at Green Twining Farm, Joe Coffin feels particularly isolated and alone.
I was recently in Marseille. I went partly because I mentioned the city in "Harry and Xavier" and wanted to have a look at the place first hand. But before I went I read a good number of books set in Marseille or written by Marseille authors.
From an LGBTQ+ perspective, I really enjoyed 'Romance in Marseille' by Claude McKay. I also read 5 novels by Jean-Claude Izzo. And through the works of Izzo I discovered the poetry of Louis Brauquier.
While in Marseille, I finished translating one of...
