The Still Blue Project

Welcome to the Still Blue Project, an online showcase dedicated to imaginative writing, short fiction, memoir, essays, poems (and work that doesn’t fit the categories) by, for, and about working-class queers.

Following on the success of Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men about More-or-Less Gay Life (2005), the “Still Blue” Project has a dual purpose.

First, to forge connections, using creative writing, among working-class queers across race, geography, and gender; and second, to serve as a seedbed for the forthcoming sequel to Everything I Have Is Blue, tentatively entitled Blue, Too: More Writing by (for or about) Working-Class Queers (see the Call for Submissions).

The concepts behind the “Still Blue” Project and Blue, Too are much broader than the unifying theme of Everything I Have Is Blue: working-class writing from writers of all genders are welcome. Still Blue is hungry for writing that illuminates our realities, our struggles, and our resistance to assimilation and mental gentrification. We think you are, too.

Enjoy the work you find here — and then go out and write some more!