Queer Showcase: A night of northern talent

Alessandra Thom is a writer from Aberdeenshire based in Edinburgh. Her first novel, Summer Hours, is out now. She was shortlisted for The List Rising Scottish Author Award 2025, was a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee for Prose in 2023 and won second place in the Short Fiction International Short Story Prize 2024. She has written for BBC Studios and her short stories have appeared in Gutter and Short Fiction. She is represented by Seren Adams @ Lexington Literary.

MK Hardy is the pen name for two geeky women living and writing together in Scotland. Their debut Sapphic Historical Gothic novel, The Needfire, released in the UK in July 2025 from Solaris. They also have two books out in Summer 2026 – Splasher (Penguin, under the name Billie Host), and The Haunting of Avis Lovelock (Solaris). They were mentees in the Pitch Wars 2020-21 programme, and mentors for Queery Fest 2022. They are organisers and facilitators for Scotland’s Cymera Festival. They are represented by John Baker at Bell Lomax Moreton.

Chloe de Lullington is an author and screenwriter based just outside Manchester, having grown up on the outskirts of pretty much everything else as well - which, as it turns out, makes for the most compelling stories! Drawn to the eccentric and the liminal, she's good at funny with a side of sad. Cacoethes is her first novel.