About George
George Violet Parker is a disabled and queer writer, performer, producer, and workshop facilitator. They are a co-director of Queer Stage Revolution, the host of A. G. Parker's Cabinet of Curiosities podcast, co-host of Rebel Riot Poetry, Disabled and Queer Artist of the Year 2022, and an H&T slam winner. They were nominated for the National Diversity Awards 2023 as a positive role model for disability, and longlisted for a Space Crone Prize and Best of the Net.
Their performance history includes The V&A Performance Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, Pride in London, Manchester Pride, London Fashion Week, Bar Wotever, Wrestival, Lese Majeste.
Their work appears in Mslexia, The F-Word, Financial Times, Human/Kind Press, Arachne Press, Women in Jazz Media, Bi+ Lines Anthology, The F-Word, Elevator Stories, The Feminist Library, Sufi Journal, Earth Pathways, and many more. Their craft essay about disability representation in fiction features in Human/Kind Press' anthology Musing the Margins. Their novel Twisted Roots was published in 2023 by Reconnecting Rainbows Press. They secured Arts Council-funded mentoring with The Literary Consultancy to write their second novel. Their collaborative poetry pamphlet Not Your Orlando (Punk Dust) is out June 2024, and their debut collection Gynandromorph (Written Off) in Dec 2024.
They run disability and queerness-focused diversity and inclusion training (most recently for Wates, and at the Royal College of Art), and offer editorial services and mentoring to other authors and poets. Services include structural and content editing, proofreading and submission package editing. They're also available for hosting, commissions, performances, diversity training, book launches, and other events. If you're interested in working with George, please get in touch. They'd love to hear from you!
To unwind, they enjoy hedgewitchery. Will read your tarot for a price.
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