Coast is Queer Festival
New Writing South and Marlborough Productions Presents
Fri 7 Oct
Sat 8 Oct
Sun 9 Oct
Venue Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts (University of Sussex)
Brighton & Hove’s LGBTQ+ literature festival is back
The Coast Is Queer, Brighton & Hove’s festival of LGBTQIA+ writing returns for an in-person festival 7-9 October 2022. Now in its third year, The Coast is Queer brings together writers, performers, academics, activists and of course readers, for three days of lively in-conversation events, workshops, films and discussions celebrating queer lives and writing.
Following an online edition of the festival in 2021 – we are thrilled that the UK’s most exciting LGBTQIA+ literature festival has a new home at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.
All events in this year’s programme are pay what you can.
PROGRAMME
- Friday 7th October 11am-12.15pm PANEL: QUEERS IN THE LIBRARY
- Friday 7th October 12-1.30pm POETRY WORKSHOP: VERITY SPOTT – POETIC GRIEF IN CRISIS
- Friday 7th October 12.45-2pm IN CONVERSATION: PAJTIM STATOVCI WITH VEDRANA VELICKOVIC
- Friday 7th October 2.30-3.45pm PANEL: STACY MAKISHI, URSULA MARTINEZ, OLUWASEUN OLAYIWOLA : MISCHIEF IN THE MAKING – WRITING FOR QUEER PERFORMANCE
- Friday 7th October 4-5.30pm WORKSHOP: A QUEER AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKSHOP FOR TRANS, NON-BINARY, GENDERQUEER AND QUEER WRITERS WITH TRAVIS ALABANZA
- Friday 7th October 4.15-5.30pm PANEL: DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO: ELIAS JAHSHAN, GOLNOOSH NOUR AND MARYAM DIN
- Friday 7th October 7.30-8.45pm JUNO DAWSON’S LOVELY TRANS LITERARY SALON WITH TRAVIS ALABANZA
- Saturday 8th October 10.30am-12.30pm WORKSHOP: CRUISING NATURE WITH DECLAN WIFFEN
- Saturday 8th October 12-1.30pm PANEL: FINDING HOME IN THE QUEER POEM – MARY JEAN CHAN, FRAN LOCK, JOHN MCCULLOUGH, PETER SCALPELLO, VERITY SPOTT
- Saturday 8th October 12.15-1.30pm PANEL: NEW VOICES WITH TICE CIN, ELIZABETH CHAKRABARTY AND JON RANSOM WITH OKECHUKWU NZELU
- Saturday 8th October 2-3.15pm IN CONVERSATION: NEIL BARTLETT AND OKECHUKWU NZELU
- Saturday 8th October 3.45-5pm PANEL: QUEER IN TIME AND QUEERING SPACE WITH CLARE SUMMERSKILL AND ADAM NATHANIEL FURMAN & JOSHUA MARDELL
- Saturday 8th October 5.30-6.45pm IN CONVERSATION: BAD GAYS
- Saturday 8th October 7-10pm. SATURDAY NIGHT OUT WITH DJ RITU, LIVIA KOJO ALOUR, CHARLIE WOOD AND DEVIL’S DYKES NETWORK POETS
- Sunday 9th October 12.15-1.30pm PANEL: SPECULATIVE FICTION WITH JULIA ARMFIELD, LEONE ROSS, HELEN TREVORROW, AND SHOLA VON REINHOLD
- Sunday 9th October 2-3.15pm IN CONVERSATION: MICHAEL CASHMAN WITH PETE LAWSON
- Sunday 9th October 2.30-3.15pm WATERLOO PRESS BOOK LAUNCH – SMALL ODYSSEYS BY MARIA JASTRZĘBSKA
- Sunday 9th October 3.45-5pm IN CONVERSATION: SARAH WINMAN AND BEATRICE HITCHMAN
It will be possible to buy and browse at the festival’s bookshelf, both in-person and online, curated by Brighton and Hove’s independent bookshop: Feminist Bookshop.