The Coast Is Queer
New Writing South and The Marlborough Theatre
Thu 12 Sep
Fri 13 Sep
Sat 14 Sep
Sun 15 Sep
Venue The Spire
New LGBTQ+ literature festival launches in Brighton, 12-15 September 2019.
The Coast Is Queer is a radical new festival of LGBTQ+ voices in literature in Brighton, UK. Bringing together writers, performers, academics, activists and readers for a weekend of events, workshops, panel discussions and performances that celebrates queer lives and writing.
All events will take place at The Spire, the magnificent Grade II listed community arts centre in East Brighton. Many events will be free or low-cost, and bursary places will be available to all ticketed events. Read more
Confirmed speakers include:
Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing, Gimme Gimme Gimme), Juno Dawson (This Book Is Gay, Margot & Me), Patrick Gale (Take Nothing With You, Notes From An Exhibition), Eley Williams (Attrib. And Other Stories), Niven Govinden (This Brutal House), Lesley Thomson (The Playground Murders, The Detective’s Daughter) Emma Frankland (None Of Us Is Yet A Robot), Owl & Fox Fisher (The Trans Teen Survival Guide), Seni Seneviratne (Unknown Soldier), Kate Davies (In At The Deep End), Dean Atta (Black Flamingo), C N Lester (Trans Like Me), Maria Jastrzębska (The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingenue), Sea Sharp (The Swagger of Dorothy Gale and Other Filthy Ways To Strut), Sharan Dhaliwal (Editor, Burnt Roti), Tasha Suri (Empire of Sand).
We are grateful for the support of both the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton.
The festival is a collaboration between New Writing South and the Marlborough Theatre, and is funded by Consortium.
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www.coastisqueer.com / www.newwritingsouth.com / @CoastIQlitfest / @newwritingsouth.com