The UK’s biggest and brightest LGBTQ+ Literature Festival returns! Bringing together authors and poets, performers, scriptwriters, activists and audiences to celebrate queer lives and writing.

Discover a plethora of panel discussions, In Conversations and workshops, taking place across 4 days. Featuring Shon Faye, Dean Atta, Sarah Waters, Juno Dawson, Julia Armfield, Patrick Gale and more!

Expect workshops such as Remapping Masculinity, Queering the Classics – A Found Poetry Workshop, Keep it Creepy: Writing Horror Workshop with Kirsty Logan, Telling Stories, Making History, and Queering the Archive (featuring Mass Observation) and Get Ready For Agent Submission with Caro Clarke plus more! Discover interactive events such as Juno Dawson’s Lovely Trans Sofa, Open Mic with AFLO the Poet and The Drag Files: Zine Launch. Panels and In Conversations including; The Queer Body, Self-Publishing: The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful, Queer Masculinities, Lesbian Custody: Breaking The Silence and Emotional Ties and Linked Lives: Family Isn’t Always (Straight)forward.

See the full programme of events here.

Tickets start at £2 for students and we have ‘pay what you can’ options for all events and Festival Passes. Find out more, and to book, click here.

Presented by New Writing South in partnership with Marlborough Productions.