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Polari Literary Salon – host to the UK’s only book prizes for emerging and established LGBTQ+ writers – opens its call to publishers for this year’s awards

Graham Robson March 10, 2023

This year there will be two awards: the Polari First Book Prize and the Polari Prize. The Polari Children’s and YA Prize will return in 2024, as a bi-annual award for books for children and young adults with LGBTQ+ themes or representation.

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Brighton LGBTIQ+ History Club to explore Queers and Books at Brighton’s Jubilee Library on Sunday, February 26

Graham Robson February 2, 2023

Opening Pandora’s Box: queer dimensions of library legacies, struggles and hopes will see Alice Corble share stories from her career as a queer library user, worker, researcher and activist, reflecting on the spaces and communities of queer discovery and connection that libraries can foster, as well as institutional and societal constraints and conflicts that can limit such possibilities. The discussion will invite intergenerational lessons and longings for LGBTQ+ library lives.

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Michael Handrick to give reading from ‘Difference is Born on the Lips’ at Kemptown Bookshop

Graham Robson October 27, 2022

Join award-winning Brighton author Michael Handrick for a reading from his new book, ‘Difference is Born on the Lips: Reflections on Sexuality, Stigma and Society’, at Kemptown Bookshop in Brighton on Thursday, November 3 from 7pm. 

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Juno Dawson among authors shortlisted for this year’s Books Are My Bag Readers’ Awards

Graham Robson October 18, 2022

LGBTQ+ books shortlisted include: The Transgender Issue by LGBTQ+ rights commentator Shon Faye, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Stonewall role model Juno Dawson, poetry anthology 100 Queer Poems, edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan, and Alice Oseman’s LGBTQ+ YA romance webcomic Heartstopper. 

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FIREBIRD filmmakers, Peeter Rebane and Tom Prior, launch campaign to publish memoirs of the real Sergey Fetisov

Graham Robson October 14, 2022

The creative team behind FIREBIRD, 2022’s hit indie LGBTQ+ romance drama, announce Kickstarter campaign to release the never-before-seen English language translation of Firebird: The Story of Roman, the memoir by Sergey Fetisov that inspired the film.

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DISRUPTING THE STATUS QUO : Coast is Queer panel event

October 3, 2022

As part of the Coast is Queer festival, this exciting panel event looks at two new collections of life writing and short fiction salute the richness of queer life experience – This Arab is Queer celebrates the varied experiences of the queer diasporic community.

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Birmingham Literature Festival to celebrate queer writing

Catherine Muxworthy September 20, 2022

Two of the UK’s “most exciting voices in queer writing” will come together during Birmingham Literature Festival to discuss “their novels, their writing and the LGBTQ+ writing scene, which is finally seeing the celebration it deserves.”

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