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New Writing South and Marlborough Productions present The Coast is Queer 2025

Brighton’s annual festival of LGBTQ+ writing returns in October 2025. The festival creates a space for queer readers, writers and allies to come together in a grassroots celebration of the written word and its ability to illuminate and enrich the life of our community.

This year's programme

Here are some of the fantastic writers, performers and poets confirmed so far: Topher Campbell, Vaneet Mehta, Lois Shearing, Sam Mills, Hafsa Qureshi, AFLO. the poet, Elias Jahshan, Lucy Webster, Sen Raj, Ellen Jones, Paula Akpan, Jacob V Joyce, Coral Wylie, Sue Lemos, Roxy Bourdillon, DG Coutinho, Jack Jordan, Piotr Cieplak, Heather Parry, Onjuli Datta, Mikaella Clements, Travis Alabanza, Juno Roche, Damian Barr, Curtis Garner, Libro Levi Bridgeman, Serge Nicholson, Kit Heyam, Jane Traies, Nat Arias, Ali Smith and Jackie Kay with many more.

Please join us at The Coast is Queer for a feast of literature local and global in the UK’s queerest city.