Florets is Broccoli’s newsletter for short stories, essays and beyond.
Broccoli is a producing company, helping create work for the page, stage and elsewhere. We have a particular focus on work by/for/about lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women.
We began Florets in order to bring a wide variety of LBQ writing to readers’ inboxes; we envision that these might be deep dives into unearthed cultural criticism, short stories, or personal essays that might not easily fit elsewhere. We’ll be publishing 10 editions, which should take us to September.
We invite you to change forms, experiment with new voices, and address your audience through their email inboxes. If you’ve only ever written dialogue, think about how it might transfer into this new intimate setting, or equally if you enjoy writing fiction, think about how your non-fiction could be a narrative.
We’re happy to work with you on your pitch, and we’ll help with editing and refining too. To give you an idea of the kind of work we publish, you can read Annie Siddons’ pilot edition here.
If you’d like to pitch your idea to us, please email broccoliarts@gmail.com with the subject line: Florets [your name].
In the meantime, tell your friends!
This newsletter was made possible thanks to public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.