Coast Is Queer 2024 England

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Coast Is Queer takes place from the 10th to 13th October 2024.

The UK's Biggest & Brightest LGBTQ+ Literature Festival. Bringing together authors and poets, performers, scriptwriters, activists and audiences to celebrate queer lives and writing. Conversations, panels, workshops, performance and films, celebrating queer writing.

Thursday
Telling Our Own Stories, 6:45pm

Friday
How to Get a Literary Agent with Writers and Artists. 10:30am
Queer Fantastical (re)imaginings. 12:00pm
Indie Publishing with Rachael Jones and Sacha Black. 1:00pm
Suitable for All Ages 2:00pm
Writing The Night. 3:30pm
Politics and Hope – We can still choose a different path. 5:00pm
Poetics, Politics and Pleasure – An Open Mic Event. 7:00pm

Saturday
Poetic Nature Walk: Strolling in Language. 10:00am
Adventures in Queer Print History. 10:00am
Work in Progress Breakfast (Saturday). 10:00am
Liberating the Canon. 10:30am
World Building with Julia Armfield and Real Writers Circle. 11:15am
It’s Just a Stage – Writing for Queer Performance. 11:30am
Adventures in Queer Printmaking (Workshop). 11:30am
The Wonders of Our Planet. 12:30pm
(queer) Who Do You Think You Are? Memoir Writing Workshop. 1:30pm
A Queer Parent. 1:30pm
In Conversation: Julia Armfield and Justin Torres. 2:30pm
Sex, Lust and Romance Panel. 3:15pm
Queer Heritage South: Community Archiving Workshop. 3:30pm
Decolonized Futures. 4:30pm
Juno Dawson’s Lovely Trans Literary Salon with Kuchenga Shenjé. 6:30pm
Cabaret – David Hoyle Reads The Classics. 8:30pm

Sunday
Work in Progress Breakfast (Sunday). 10:00am
Queer Heritage South: Community Archiving Workshop (Sunday). 10:45am
Challenges and Truth in Writing Memoir. 11:00am