A grant from Grand Camp Maisie Fund has made it possible for You Are Here – Survivor Writers to print a second edition of the 2024 Survivor writers anthology. Huge thanks to the Grand Camp Maisie Fund for their support and generosity!!
The Grand Camp Maisie Fund (GCMF) was created by the will of the late LGBTQI+ activist Andrew Lumsden, and was administered by his executor and a selected group of friends. Andrew Lumsden was a founding member of the London chapter of the Gay Liberation Front in the 1970s. A fierce pioneer and lifelong activist, supporting freedom and community. As a Journalist he took risks writing about homosexuality in mainstream papers, he also helped to establish Gay News in 1972 and served as its editor in the early eighties. He helped to organised the first Gay Pride in London in 1979. This article in the Independent gives a sense of his style and politics
With a new edition of the You Are Here – Survivor Writers Anthology – I’m looking forward to organising further workshops, readings, and sharing skills on creating peer lead spaces.
You Are Here anthology and archive are an intersectional resource on survival, resistance, creativity and community.
If you’d like to collaborate by hosting an event, being part of a workshop, a reading, or developing survivor spaces – I’d love to hear from you.
