In 2022, Spirit Level held what was probably one of the first writing competitions about what it is like to be trans (or queer, intersex etc) or to know someone who is trans. The best entries feature below. In 2024 we ran a second Prose Purple Writing Competition and you can read the winning entries here.
Angel by Avi Ben Zeev (Short Story)
Little Voice by Alex Cornell (Short Story)
This One Time At The Choir by Kitt Harris (Short Story)
Mx.ed Up by Ellis Jamieson (Flash Fiction)
Parisa by Mel Jayne (Flash Fiction)
A Letter To Eleanor by Jacqueline Thoms (Flash Fiction)
Coolest Kids And The Gender Wars by Charlotte Amelia Poe (Poem)
Charlotte Jane by Christine Law (Poem)
The Tenderness of Gender by David Head (Poem)
