Erica
Gillingham
Writer. Poet. Bookseller.
About Me
Erica Gillingham is a queer poet & writer living in London, England, via Siskiyou County, California. She is a bookseller at Gay's The Word Bookshop, author of the newsletter Call Me Mama, and former Books Editor for DIVA Magazine & Poetry Editor for The Signal House Edition. Her poetry pamphlets included The Human Body is a Hive and the collaborative work MotherFlux and her poetry & non-fiction have been been published in anthologies, journals, & on BBC radio. Erica has a PhD in lesbian love stories in young adult literature and graphic novels. (She wrote a lot about kissing.)​
Writing
> MotherFlux, collaborative queer parent-poet pamphlet, Nine Pens
> The Human Body is a Hive, debut poetry pamphlet, Verve Poetry Press
> 'Mango Kiss', 'The Gallery Floor', He, She, They, Us, Pan Macmillan
> 'Accessing the Powers of the Solar System', Short Cuts, 'Devotion', BBC Radio 4
Nonfiction
> Newsletter, Call Me Mama, substack on queerness, motherhood, plaid
> Essay, 'Three Weddings and a Marriage Equality Movement' - Queer Life, Queer Love
> Interview, 'Interview with Sara Impey, Quilt Artist' - The Signal House Edition, Issue 7
> Thesis, Lesbian Love Stories in Young Adult Literature and Graphic Memoirs: Narrative
Constructions of Same-Sex Relationships Between Female Characters Across Genre and Form, University of Roehampton, 2018
> Article, 'Representations of Same-Sex Relationships Between Female Characters
in All Ages Comics: Princess Princess Ever After and Lumberjanes', The Journal of Lesbian Studies: Special Issue on Lesbians and Comics, Ed. Michelle Ann Abate, et al., March 2018.
Media
> 'Inside the Rise of LGBTQ+ fiction', The Cultural Frontline, BBC World Service
> 'Accessing the Powers of the Solar System: An Invocation for All Fertility Treatments',
Short Cuts, Series 31, 'Devotion', BBC Radio 4
> 'Queer books of the 2010s', Front Row, Live, BBC Radio 4
> Brum Radio Poets with Rick Sanders (Willis the Poet) with Josie Alford and
Erica Gillingham, Brum Radio
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> '...The Human Body is a Hive', Brighton Book Club with Anna Burtt, Episode 33
> A Lesbian Affair, 'Erica & Alex', Season 1: Episode 9
> Feminist Book Club Paris, 'In Conversation with...Erica Gillingham', Season 1:
Episode 7
> Book Launch for Just Like Everyone Else, in conversation with author Sarah Hagger-Holt
> 14poems IG Live for fourteen poems Issue #6, featuring 'Greasy Spoon Conception'
> 'In conversation with Malinda Lo - UK Launch for Last Night at the Telegraph Club',
Chair, Gay's The Word bookshop
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