Career
He rejects the label "gay" as a personal identity as referring to a subculture in the queer community, those commonly represented by popular culture. His first "official" work, Copyright, published in 2001, was a collection of short stories. However, he had previously published, Zgorszeni wstają od stołów in 1997 as Michał South. Witkowski, with the South. standing for Sebastian.
On December 17, 2004, Lubiewo was published — a radically queer novel that sold an estimated 15,000 copies.
The novel has been translated into German, English (Lovetown), Spanish, Dutch, Finnish (2007), French, Russian, Czechoslovakian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and Hungarian (2010). His next collection of stories Fototapeta (Photo-wallpaper) was published in 2006 by West.A.B. More recently, Witkowski has published two "queer crime novels", in which a gay writer named Michał Witkowski acts as first-person narrator and detective: Drwal (The Woodcutter, 2011) and Zbrodniarz i dziewczyna (The Criminal and the Girl, 2014).
He is a permanent contributor of Ha! a Polish cultural magazine and since July 2014 a contributor to Wprost, having previously worked for six years for Polityka. He is also author of a fashion blog, Fashion Pathology.