We’re thrilled that William Hussey‘s Killing Jericho and Kae Tempest‘s Divisible by Itself and One have been longlisted for the 2024 Polari Book Prize.

The Polari Prize is the UK’s first and largest LGBTQ+ book award. Established to promote writing that explores the LGBTQ+ experience, Polari also focuses on amplifying diverse voices through a series of literary events, including the regularly touring Polari Salon.

On this year’s longlist, judge Chris Gribble said: “Both the range and quality of submissions this year made the long listing task a real challenge for all of the judges. From graphic work to novels, essays to autobiography, poetry to history, the books that were submitted this year turned our minds outwards, backwards and forwards. We were shown new tellings of the past, had fresh light cast on our current times and were given glances of the future that we won’t forget in a hurry.”

The shortlist will be announced on Monday 30 September and the winners’ ceremony will return to the British Library on Tuesday 29th November. For more information and to see the full longlist, click here.