Paul Burston

Paul Burston is a British journalist and author. Born in York and raised in South Wales, Burston attended Brynteg Comprehensive School and studied English, Drama and Film Studies at university. He worked for the London gay policing group GALOP and was an activist with ACT-UP before moving into journalism. He edited, for some years, the gay and lesbian section of Time Out magazine.

His first novel Shameless, published in 2001, was praised by the New York Times.^[1]

He has since published three more novels and two short story collections.

His new novel 'The Black Path' will be published by Accent Press on September 2016 and is longlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize. https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/aug/02/not-the-booker-prize-very-longlist-2016-votes-please

He is the founder and host of award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari at the Southbank Centre, and founder of The Polari First Book Prize for new LGBT writing. http://www.polariliterarysalon.co.uk

Bibliography

Non fiction

• A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture, Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0-415-09618-9
• What are you Looking at? Queer Sex, Style and Cinema, Continuum International Publishing, 1995. ISBN 0-304-34300-5
• 'Confessions of A Gay Film Critic' in Anti-Gay Freedom Editions, 1996 (ed. Mark Simpson)
• Gutterheart: Life According to Marc Almond, 1981-1996, Dunce Directive, 1997, ISBN 0-9522068-6-2
• Queens' Country, A Tour Around the Gay Ghettos, Queer Spots and Camp Sights of Britain, Little Brown, 1998. ISBN 0-349-11178-2

Fiction

• Shameless, Abacus, 2001, ISBN 978-0-349-11479-8
• Star People, Little, Brown, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7515-3849-6
• Lovers and Losers, Sphere, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7515-3864-9
• The Gay Divorcee Sphere, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84744-208-6
• The Black Path Accent Press, 2016, ISBN 9781786150455

Edited works

• Boys & Girls Glasshouse Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-907536-09-0
• Men & Women Glasshouse Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-907536-11-3

References

External links

• Official website
• Interview in Time Out, 31 July 2006
• Interview in The Independent on Sunday
• in The Huffington Post