Elizabeth Lovatt is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction currently living in London. Her first book Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line was published by Dialogue Books. It has been described as “a timely and vital exploration of how lesbian identity continues to remake and redefine itself in the 21st century” and “a heartfelt history of the gay community”. In 2019 she was a writer-in-residence for Islington Pride and the ruckus! archive. In November 2020 she was accepted onto Penguin Books’ #WriteNow mentorship scheme and has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from Birkbeck. Her dissertation was awarded the Lynne Segal BiGS Prize in Gender and Sexuality.
She also runs the tiny narrative — a semi-regular newsletter of personal despatches for narrative obsessives and is the creator of the fanzine LOVE TOVE celebrating writer and artist Tove Jansson.
The rest of the time she’s on Blueksy, TikTok Instagram or reading.
She is represented by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency.
Thank You For Calling The Lesbian Line out now in the UK and US!
‘Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work . . . A gift for those of us who have lived in our queer skins for many decades, and for young lesbians who are looking for a primer in lesbian history, an understanding of what it means to look for identity and place in our community.’ ― Kerry Hudson, Observer
A triumph . . . The book I wish I’d read as a young queer person. Intricately woven together, it is overflowing with empathy, warmth and tenderness. Elizabeth Lovatt is a wonder and she’s recorded something deeply compelling and incandescent. You will laugh. You will cry. This is utterly essential queer reading. – Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMB
‘It would be hard not to love a book with this title and happily, Elizabeth Lovatt has done it proud . . . This is a warm, thoughtful book.’ ― London Standard
‘Deliciously informative and rigorously researched, this book imagines the often invisible lives and denied passions of callers to the Lesbian Line, as well as tracing the author’s own coming out story. I loved it.’ ― Julia Bell, author of DIRTY WORK
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Writing and Publications
Features and Creative Non-Fiction
- Penguin Features: How Netflix’s Persuasion talks over Jane Austen’s novel
- Penguin Features: The Unlikely Queer Family at the Heart of The Moomins
- Cipher Press: Skin Hunger
- Token Magazine: #wlw
- 404 Ink: Why is a cross a kiss?
- Dear Damsels: What Tove Taught Me
Fiction
- National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2019: Observations from the Tube Looking Out onto Baker Street Platform
- Firewords: Mr Hilbert’s Grand Hotel
- Jellyfish Review: I Have My Mother’s Eyes
- Salomie Lit Mag: She Takes Her Tea Black
- Popshot Magazine: I Hope This Email Finds You Well
- Flight Journal: Sharks
- Severine Literary Magazine: You Do Not Think Of Us But We Think Of You
- Dear Damsels: Do You Remember When We First Met
- Halo Literary Magazine: Whales
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