This month we're discussing Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth - complete with a visit from the author herself!

Queer Book Club (https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/projects-and-events/projects/queer-book-club#entry:162283@1:url) is an inclusive reading group open to anyone from St Helens to come together to read and discuss LGBTQIA+ literature. Founded in Autumn 2023 by a group of local queer artists, producers and book-lovers, Queer Book Club is a space to share a love of queer novels, memoirs and writing.

This month we're reading...

Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth - a creeping story of sapphic obsession with Gothic undertones and a delicious mid-century feel set in rural Ireland, from the author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Sunburn. Plus a visit from Chloe herself!

Queer Book Club is drop-in, meaning you don’t have to have been before to take part, but we encourage you to read the book ahead of the session.

This month's QBC forms part of 2026's Homotopia (https://www.homotopia.net/) programme.

Access

We want to make Queer Book Club as accessible to as many people as possible and therefore we will hold two pre-bought copies of the book.

Either contact Britney via britney@heartofglass.org.uk or call in to The Book Stop to borrow a copy. Additionally, as a QBC reader, you also receive 20% off your copy of the chosen book this month at The Book Stop in St Helens (https://goo.gl/maps/fGpPpC2CL2BouEqK7) by quoting "Queer Book Club" at the till.

Safer Spaces

These events will use Heart of Glass' Safer Spaces Agreemen (https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/safer-spaces-agreement#:~:text=At%20Heart%20of%20Glass%20we,for%20checking%20their%20own%20behaviour.)t to create a space that aims to be as welcoming and respectful as possible.

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