Joelle Taylor: Queer Narratives Writing Workshop

About

A workshop focused on exploring queer narratives - based around the processes and ideas behind Joelle Taylor’s new poetry collection, Maryville.
You’ll gather ideas for writing your own poetry, take part in writing exercises and start developing your poetic voice. This workshop is for participants who identify as LGBTQIA+ and is for all writing abilities.

Workshops
Literature & Words
Sat 9 May, 12.00pm

£5*
Suitable for ages: 16+
This event is taking place at Brighton Dome Founders Room

16+, no unaccompanied under 14s in the venue

*There is a £3.50 per order charge for all phone and online bookings (not applicable to Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival members)

**Stage timings are subject to change

Portrait of Joelle Taylor against a red background. She is wearing a suit and looking directly at the camera.Credit: Robin Christian
Joelle Taylor
Joelle Taylor is the author of four poetry collections, and one novel. C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize and is currently being adapted both for theatre, and into a television screenplay, and was featured on Radio Three documentary Butch. She is a co- curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to Brazil. Her novel The Night Alphabet was published in Spring of 2024 and was named both a Spectator and Guardian Book of the Year. Her most recent radio programme A Young Girl’s Guide to Horror was broadcast on BBC Radio Four. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. She was recently honoured with a DIVA Award for Outstanding Contribution and named in the Guardian’s 2024 Pride Power list. Her new collection Maryville was published by Bloomsbury in November.