Join authors Ellen Jones (Outrage) Elizabeth Lovatt (Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line) for an informal conversation at Queer Brewing.
Ellen Jones: is a trailblazing author, strategist, and award-winning campaigner, renowned for her work in fostering inclusion and advocating for LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and disabled communities.Her expertise and dedication to inclusion have earned her numerous accolades, including the prestigious MTV EMA Generation Change Award and Stonewall’s Young Campaigner of the Year title. She is also the Founder of Pansy Studios, a queer-led marketing agency through which she runs the largest directory of LGBTQ+ freelance talent anywhere in the world.
Since its hardback release in 2025, Outrage has travelled into classrooms, book clubs, protests, workplaces, community spaces, and late-night conversations about what LGBTQ+ equality really means - and why the fight is far from over. Seeing it read, shared, underlined, argued with, and passed on has been one of the greatest honours of my life. The recently published paperback edition makesOutrage more accessible, more shareable, and more portable but more importantly it looks as some of the political events of the last year - from the Supreme Court Ruling to Trump's presidency - and its impact on LGBTQ+ people.
Elizabeth Lovatt: is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction currently living in London. Her first book Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line was published by Dialogue Books in 2025 and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2026. The book, which is part social history, part memoir, reimagines the women who both called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing Elizabeth’s own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family. It has been described as “a timely and vital exploration of how lesbian identity continues to remake and redefine itself in the 21st century” and “a heartfelt history of the gay community”.
In 2019 she was a writer-in-residence for Islington Pride and the ruckus! archive. In November 2020 she was accepted onto Penguin Books’ #WriteNow mentorship scheme and has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from Birkbeck.
This in conversation will be hosted by Tash Walker. Tash Walker is a writer, poet, multi-award winning audio producer and community organiser who has worked with institutions such as the Barbican, The National Archives, BBC, The Charles Causley Trust and Queer Britain. They are the co-host and co-producer on the The Log Books podcast, and were a member of Switchboard’s board for eight years. Tash is currently a trustee at Galop. Their poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and they are the co-author, with Adam Zmith, of The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened (Faber, Jan 2026).
This is an opportunity to show up & support LGBTQ+ authors at a time when we are being increasingly censored.