The Coast Is Queer – a radical new festival featuring some of the best LGBT+ literature.
THE Spire in Kemptown plays host to a four-day festival of LGBT+ literature bringing together an impressive line-up of writers for a new venture presented by New Writing South and the Marlborough Theatre.
Sarah Crompton, general manger of New Writing South said: “Our ambition is to bring together the most vital LBGTQ+ voices to give them a platform to share their thoughts and ideas, and celebrate their own careers and lives.”
The 4-days of events will include writers, performers, academics, activists and readers for an extended weekend of events, workshops, panel discussions and performances to celebrate queer lives and writing.
Speakers will include Patrick Gale, Lesley Thomson, Juno Dawson, Jonathan Harvey, Kate Davies, Eley Williams, CN Lester, Sharan Dhaliwal, Emma Franklin and Dean Atta.
The programme commences at 6.30pm on Thursday, September 12 with a session with Eley Williams, a writer whose debut prose collection Attrib. and other stories was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2018.
CN Lester, a classical and alternative singer/songwriter as well as LGBT+ and transgender rights activist presents Trans Like Me at 4.30pm on Friday, September 13.
Jonathan Harvey is best known as the creator of TV series Gimme Gimme, the stage play Beautiful Thing and he wrote the book for the Pet Shop Boys musical Closer to Heaven. He has written more than 200 episodes for Coronation Street while his solo show Musik, written with the Pet Shop Boys has just played at the Edinburgh Fringe and in London’s Leicester Square Theatre. Jonathan will be interviewed by David Sheppeard, Director of the Marlborough Theatre on Saturday, September 14 starting at 4pm.
For a full lineup of events and to purchase tickets online, click here:
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