My short story ‘Strange Desires’ is in the current (January) issue of Diva magazine. Subtitled ‘a story of warped passions’, it’s in the style of lesbian pulp novels from the 1950’s and 60’s. It’s a little silly and hopefully a little saucy as well, and was great fun to write. I was inspired by items from the Lesbian Archive at Glasgow Women’s Library, and hoped to draw attention to their Women on the Shelf fundraising campaign which aims to raise money for GWL’s forthcoming move to new and accessible premises in the Mitchell Library, where the collections will be fully archived and searchable.
December 7th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
[...] Lesbians on the Shelf has been formally launched through the new edition of DIVA magazine, with a specially commissioned story by the award winning writer, Zoe Strachan. ‘Strange Desires’ is Zoe’s homage to the lesbian pulp fiction novel and we hope you enjoy it. (Zoe talks about the inspiration behind the story on her blog) [...]