Reconnecting Rainbows Press

Happy #WorldBookDay2026 from all at Reconnecting Rainbows Press! Why not celebrate by treating yourself to a new book from one of our fantastic authors?

We're so excited to be heading to Jupiter Cloud tomorrow! Come see @suzannewriter.bsky.social & @kestr.al as well as RRP staff, and pick up a ton of our books at a reduced rate!

Early reviews for The Boy From Elsewhere by @kestr.al are blowing us away!

A photograph of me, a blond haired non-binary person, alongside a tower of my new book The Boy From Elsewhere.

Help, I'm trapped in a tower of my own making!

It's HERE! The Boy From Elsewhere is the gripping new sci-fi fantasy novel from @kestr.al and it's available online and in bookshops now.

Please join us in congratulating Kestral, and if queer heroes or world-bending origin stories appeal to you, please pick up a copy!

The cover for the book Twenty-Eight, with an image that says the same text as the status post.

It's been three years since we published TWENTY-EIGHT: Stories from the Section 28 Generation.

In that time if feels like queer rights have taken even more steps backward. But what's not waivered is the determination we have to make this a better world.

We must #KeepFighting

Are you from... elsewhere? Find out for yourself in just one week!

One town. Two worlds. No way home.

The Boy From Elsewhere by @kestr.al. Out, ironically, everywhere, on February 7th 2026. #BookLaunch #BookSky #BooksOfBluesky #BookTrailer #Elsewhere

Thanks Suzanne! And agreed @drewgum.bsky.social, we're really proud that we've been able to focus on amplifying voices that publishers with 1000x our budget seem keen to ignore, but it fills us with big feelings 🫠

A photograph of a book called The Boy From Elsewhere by Kestral Gaian, with text next to it which reads "Press Night & Launch Event, hosted by Heartstopper's Tobie Donovan. Wednesday 11th February 2026, 19:00 - 21:00, The British Library, St.Pancras, London." The book cover contains purple and gold swirling clouds and three mysterious figures stood in the haze.

Two weeks until this fun, queer, mysterious, happy, sad, slightly ridiculous book gets to meet the world.

There's an equally fun, queer, slightly ridiculous launch event on February 11th, hosted by Tobie Donovan at the British Library.

I'd love for you to join us?

www.outsavvy.com/event/32470/...

The text 'Remembering Alex Francis' sits atop a blue gradient background. Beside it is an illustration of a black-and-white spotted cat, taken from the front cover of Alex's book Spidercat.

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Alex Francis, author of Spidercat and member of the Reconnecting Rainbows Press family.

Read more: reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/rememberinga...

Join us for the launch of the new book from @kestr.al - The Boy From Elsewhere - hosted by Heartstopper's Tobie Donovan at the British Library on February 15th. It's time to find out why everyone’s talking about this epic Young Adult sci-fi fantasy story! #Booksky #Books #YA #Heartsky #Author

Join us later for the launch of @leatrice_write's debut poetry collection.

7 P.M. Curio Bookshop, Oxford.

See you there!
www.outsavvy.com/event/32469/...

Yearbook Signing, the debut poetry collection by Leatrice, is out TODAY. Join us next week to celebrate the launch in Oxford and London.

Get your free tickets here: reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/events/

We've had an incredible 2025 with you all - here's to all of our brilliant authors an contributors, but also to all of you wonderful readers.

Dancing in Heaven by the amazing @suzannewriter.bsky.social is out TODAY! Filled with women's voices from the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and with a donation being made to @switchboard.bsky.social for each copy sold, we're proud to bring this to readers on #WorldAIDSDay.

reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/book/dih/

Join us on #worldaidsday to celebrate the launch of Suzanne Elvidge's new book 'Dancing In Heaven' and hear the stories of the women affected by the AIDs crisis, who cared, cried and campaigned.

A powerful tribute to the women whose stories continue to inspire.

www.outsavvy.com/event/31655/...

Pre-orders for @suzannewriter.bsky.social's incredible upcoming book 'Dancing in Heaven' are now live! Find out all about the book, the launch events, and how to order on our website.

reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/book/dih/

Join us and Bea Wohl today for the launch of their debut poetry collection, 'Motorway Service Station Blues'.

Enjoy a snippet from 'Transition Blues' and get your (free) tickets now!

www.outsavvy.com/event/31352/...

#MotorwayServiceStationBlues #poetrybook

Bea Wohl‘s debut poetry collection, Motorway Service Station Blues, launches this Friday, exploring themes of sorrow, transition, and becoming. Book your tickets for the launch! In the meantime, enjoy this preview of Make-Up Room (created in partnership with @mxdarren_)

Dancing in Heaven: Scarborough Launch Saturday 6 December at the Shakespeare Gallery and Studios , St Helen's Square, Scarborough YO11 1EU (part of the Scarborough Fringe Winter Edition) Free tickets  here  or  here . ​

#Scarborough launch details for #DancingInHeaven

Sat 6 Dec at the Shakespeare Gallery and Studios (part of The Scarborough Fair Fringe Winter Edition)

www.thehouseofcorrection.com/news/dancing...

London launch info to follow...

#HIV #AIDS #WomensVoices @reconnectingrainbo.ws

London launch event for Dancing in Heaven, Monday 1 December, 7 pm, Battersea Arts Centre

#DancingInHeaven, celebrating #womensvoices from the 1980s #HIV & #AIDS pandemic, launches on 1 December - #WorldAIDSDAY - at Battersea Arts Centre in London at 7 pm. Meet the author and hear some of the monologues performed live.

reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/events/

Coming February 2026, The Boy From Elsewhere by @kestr.al is a book filled with queer joy, Strong role models, and a gripping story that transcends reality itself.

You can find Kestral this weekend at #YALC #YALCuk to find out more!

Me in a red flowery shirt reading a monologue and grinning like a Cheshire Cat

Today's proud moment - running the very first session of the very first Whitby Literary Festival and reading from my first solo monologue collection, Dancing in Heaven

#Whitby #WhitbyLitFest #Literary

Glasgow Launch Event for Tubelines: The Poetry of Motion. Thursday 13th November 2025 from 19:30 - 21:00 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow

This week's Tubelines launch event in Glasgow has been postponed due to illness - but never fear! The book is available to buy in all good (and mediocre) book shops now, and we hope you'll join us for our rescheduled event on Thursday 13th November!

www.reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/book/tubelines

Out now! Find out why everyone is talking about these tales from the tube. Available at Waterstones, Foyles, Blackwell's, Amazon, and More.

Ever seen someone scribbling in a notebook on the train? Check out this new collection of poems by Kestral Gaian, out now. Who knows, perhaps they wrote a poem about YOU?

National Poetry Day is HERE! Celebrating the playfulness of language and the power of queer poetry, today and every day.

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Today we're celebrating all of our incredible poets. You're amazing! This year's poetry day theme is play, so in that spirit we encourage you to pick up a pen and just see what comes to mind! Poetry is for EVERYONE, always.

Tubelines Launch Events! London - Saturday 4th October 2025, 16:00 - 18:00 at The Poetry Society. Glasgow - Wednesday 8th October 2025, 18:30 - 20:30 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts

Join @kestr.al for the launch of Tubelines, their incredible new poetry collection, at events in both London and Glasgow.

Accessible venues, free tickets, and loads of fantastic poetry.

reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/events/

Pre-order @kestr.al's new book of incredible poetry and see why @suddenlyjoseph.bsky.social described it as "gorgeously queer."

Grab a copy ahead of the launch at www.reconnectingrainbows.co.uk/books/tubelines

You are literally Voguing!

Southampton Pride, 23-24 August. Join us at Southampton Pride this weekend to celebrate queer literature and storytellers!

We're going to be at #SouthamptonPride all weekend representing queer storytellers and the incredible things they create!

If you're there, or are local to Southampton UK, come say hi to us and some of our authors in the Guildhall and walk away with some fantastically LGBTQ+ stories!