A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi

A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a business where she's had a negative experience, watching the consequences with perverse joy. A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. And an aspiring author takes to stealing items from strangers’ homes in a kind of cosmic redistribution each time one of her relationships fail.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

MOLLY LLEWELLYN is a twenty-something queer, disabled book blogger from the UK. She previously co-edited Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, published by Dzanc Books in 2023. She’s a big fan of "weird women" lit and anything that is the color green.

KRISTEL BUCKLEY is an editor, publicist and former publisher from the Big Smoke. She is more than happy to talk your ear off about the unfaithful representation of women in history, and her passion is a more equitable, inclusive future for all stories from all voices. She lives in the UK.

Publisher: Dzanc Books
Publish Date: June 03, 2025
Pages: 203
Type: Paperback
Language: English
EAN/UPC: 9781938603310
BISAC Categories: Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors), LGBTQ+ - General, Women