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Cipher Press has acquired Alison Rumfitt's debut novel Tell Me I’m Worthless as its first book in the Arts Council-funded #NewQueerVoices project.
The project aims to publish the best new queer writing from the UK by trans writers, queer writers of colour and queer working-class writers.
Tell Me I’m Worthless is billed as an "unflinching look at modern fascism through a decidedly queer lens" and as a contemporary haunted house novel about the experience of living as a trans woman in the UK. Set in Brighton, the book will follow two protagonists, Alice and Ila, who spend one night in an abandoned house and are forced to live with dreadful consequences until they go back to The House and face what happened to them.
The publisher acquired world rights direct from the author. Tell Me I’m Worthless will be published on 28th October 2021.
Rumfitt is the author of poetry pamphlet The T(y)ranny, published by Zarf Editions in 2019. She has been nominated twice for the Rhysling Award, an annual award given for the best science fiction, fantasy, or horror poem.