Polari on Sea

Polari returns to The Printworks, Hastings with Paul Burston, Adam Macqueen, VG Lee, Joelle Taylor and more TBA.

Adam Macqueen is the author of the Tommy Wildeblood thrillers in which ex-Piccadilly Circus rent boy Wildeblood finds himself caught up in a series of real-life political scandals. Adam’s latest book, published in October by Swift Press, is Haunted Tales, a selection of the ghost stories he has been writing as Christmas presents for friends and family for the past 20 years.

VG Lee has published five novels and two collections of short stories. Her writing has appeared in numerous and diverse publications including Poetry Review, Diva Magazine, Beyond Bedlam (Anvil), The Lady Magazine and more recently The Guardian.
In 2012 she was nominated for a Stonewall Award, 2014 brought the Ultimate Planet Award for Best Established Author; and in 2017 she was runner up for Diva/YLVA Publishing Literary Prize for Fiction. In 2022 she was long-listed for the BBC National Short Story Award

Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems (Westbourne Press) won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize and was the subject of a Radio 4 arts documentary Butch. A former UK SLAM Champion she founded the national youth poetry slams SLAMbassadors through the Poetry Society in 2001, remaining its Artistic Director until 2018. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live, resident at the Southbank Centre, and the current editor of Out-Spoken Press. She has recently completed a book tour of Australia including Sydney Opera House (March 2022). C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring it from 2023. Her latest book is a novel of interconnecting stories, The Night Alphabet. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.