4 clubs and groups you can join, with training nights, fees and the beginner route into each.
A roughly monthly book club in New Cross that reads around gender, race, Palestine, disability and spirituality. Run by Kaz, open to anyone, with queer, trans, disabled and BIPOC voices put first. £5 to £12 a session at Corner New Cross.
South · Beginners
A book club, writing and craft workshops and socials for queer creative people, most of them free or pay what you can, at ARC Collective in east London. One of OutSavvy's top organisers: 37 events since 2024 and nearly two thousand attendees. Recent reads: Ocean Vuong, Paul Mendez, Arundhati Roy.
Tue · Free · Beginners
London's gay book club: a relaxed monthly social for readers at The Railway in Clapham, with Meet the Author evenings when the month's writer comes in (Phil Melanson for Florenzer in November) and a Nonfiction Night in December. Sign-up is through Instagram.
South · Tue · Beginners
A monthly book club for queer people from the Global Majority, reading mostly queer writers of colour: Hijab Butch Blues, Cemetery Boys, Rosewater. First Wednesday-ish of the month at Housmans Bookshop in King's Cross, 7pm, free. Thirty-three sessions since 2024.
North · Wed · Free · Beginners
New clubs, changed training nights, and the occasional weekend. No more than that.
A weekend away with a group of gay men, and nothing to prove.