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Queer Writing South is a meeting point for queer-identified writers in the South East region, established to promote the work of emerging LGBT writers, and to foster a sense of cohesion and belonging within the community. Queer Writing South delivers writing workshops and queer-themed readings in the South East region, and provides professional advice and support for a community of local queer writers. We are supported by Awards for All, Brighton writers’ network THE SOUTH, and Brighton and Hove Pride.
Whoosh! THE ANTHOLOGY
We will be releasing an anthology of work by nine new queer writers based in the South East this summer as part of the Brighton and Hove Pride Festival. Whoosh! will appear during Pride week, launched with an evening of readings from anthology contributors and other established queer writers from the region.
Whoosh! is the result of a year-long project funded by Awards for All and supported by Brighton and Hove Pride. Queer Writing South, led by renowned queer poets Maria Jastrzebska and John McCullough, ran a ten-week programme of workshops. Open to local writers from the LGBT community, the workshops were held at the Brighton Writers’ Centre on Grand Parade. The resulting anthology, a joint publication from Pighog Press in association with Queer Writing South and THE SOUTH, is a fresh, innovative and varied mix of new poetry and prose.
To pre-order a copy of Whoosh! go to www.pighog.co.uk
LAUNCH PARTY
Whoosh! will be launched at a Queer Writing South launch party on Tuesday 29th July 7.30pm at the Sanctuary Café, with a series of readings from anthology contributors and poetry from renowned guest poet Jay Bernard as well as music from Al Start and DJ Bec Chalkley. We look forward to seeing you there!
When: Tuesday 29th July, Doors 7.30 for an 8 pm start
Where: Cella at the Sanctuary Café, East Brunswick Street, Brighton
Entry: Admission is free to book early contact Queer Writing South.
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BIOS
| Maria Jastrzebska was born in Warsaw and grew up in London. She now lives in Brighton. Her collections include Postcards From Poland (Working Press), Home From Home (Flarestack) and Syrena (Redbeck Press). She was co-editor of the bilingual women’s anthology Forum Polek and of Poetry South (2007). Her work appears in anthologies and journals such as Images of Women (Arrowhead) and Poetry International Web, in the UK and in Finland France, Romania and Slovenia. |
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| John McCullough grew up in Watford and now lives in Brighton. In 2002 he won first prize in the Robin Lee Memorial Poetry Competition. In 2006 he completed his doctorate on the homoerotics of Renaissance friendship at the University of Sussex. His poems have appeared in anthologies such as Reactions and magazines like The Rialto. His first collection, Cloudfish, was published by Pighog Press; and his new collection, The Lives of Ghosts, published by tall-lighthouse, was launched in May. |
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