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SUMMARY:Polari Prize 2024 at the British Library
DESCRIPTION:With Julia Armfield\, Paul Burston\, Jon Ransom\, Hifi Sean and David McAlmont. \n  \nThis is an in-person only event in the British Library Pigott Theatre. \n  \nTonight\, the winners of this year’s Polari Prize awards are announced. Host Paul Burston is joined by previous winners Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom and special musical guests David McAlmont and ‘Hifi Sean’ Dickson. \nThe Polari Prize – the UK’s only book awards for LGBTQ+ writing was founded in 2011 by author and activist\, Paul Burston. This year there are three prizes – for first book\, for the book of the year (excluding debuts)\, and for a Children’s/YA title. The prizes are run by Polari literary salon\, which is currently touring the UK\, showcasing prize winners past and present\, together with nominees from the prizes’ 14-year history. \nYou can find a list of the longlisted titles and their authors on the Polari Salon website. \nJulia Armfield is a fiction writer who lives in London. Her debut collection\, salt slow\, was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020 and was shortlisted for the London Magazine Prize for Debut Fiction 2020. Her novel Our Wives Under The Sea was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and won The Polari Prize 2023. Her new novel is Private Rites\, published by Harper Collins. \nJon Ransom is the author of The Whale Tattoo\, which won the Polari First Book Prize 2023\, and was named a Guardian Best Fiction of 2022. His second book The Gallopers was published by Muswell Press in January 2024. He lives in Hardwick. \nDavid McAlmont and ‘Hifi Sean’ Dickson first collaborated on Dickson’s 2016 solo album Ft\, where McAlmont lent his sublime vocals to the track Like Josephine Baker. Their debut album Happy Ending was voted one of the best albums of 2023. In August they released a second album Daylight. Tonight they’ll be treating us to an exclusive preview of their forthcoming third album. \nSupported by the Vogel-Denebeim Family. \nDoors and Bar open at 18:00. If you’re attending in person\, please arrive no later than 15 minutes before the start time of this event. \nHalf price tickets available for Members\, Students\, Under 26 and other concession groups. \n@eventsBL \nThe British Library is a charity. Your support helps us open up a world of knowledge and inspiration for everyone. Donate today.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-prize-2024-at-the-british-library/
LOCATION:The British Library\, 96 Euston Rd\, London\, Greater London\, NW1 2DB\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Polari at Books on Tyne\, Newcastle​​
DESCRIPTION:With Paul Burston\, William Hussey\, Andrew McMillan and VG Lee. \nNewcastle Libraries and the Lit & Phil are very pleased to be collaborating once more on the 12th Books on Tyne Festival. We hope that our programme offers something for everyone: from the Newcastle witch trials to a journey on the Tyne and Wear Metro; the welcome return of the Polari LGBTQ+ literary salon to a contemplation of Beethoven; the Romans and the rugged northern landscape to notable women of the North East. There’s plenty more besides to choose from. \nWe hope you enjoy what’s on offer at the Lit & Phil and City Library! \nRefund policy: If the event you have booked for is cancelled\, rescheduled or has changed location\, you are entitled to a refund. You’re not entitled to a refund if you can no longer attend an event.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-at-books-on-tyne-newcastle/
LOCATION:Lit & Phil Library\, 23 Westgate Rd\, Newcastle\, Tyne and Wear\, NE1 1SE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Polari Children's & YA Prize Online Panel
DESCRIPTION:Polari Prize Virtual Panel : LGBTQ+ Writing for Kids – Why does it matter?\n  \nPolari Prize Virtual Panel event: LGBTQ+ Writing for Kids – Why does it matter? \nJoin Jodie Lancet-Grant as she talks to some of this year’s shortlisted writers about their books\, their inspiration\, and why queer representation for younger readers is so important. \nFeaturing:\nSophie Cameron – Away With Words\, Our Sister Again\, Out of the Blue\nSarah Hagger-Holt – The Fights That Make Us\, Proud of Me\, Just Like Everyone Else\nRobert Tregoning – Out of the Blue\, The Dress in the Window\, What The Crow Saw Below\nKat Dunn – Bitterthorn\, Hungerstone \n(Final shortlisted author Lex Croucher\, Gwen and Art are not in Love\, is unable to attend.) \nJodie Lancet-Grant is Chair of Judges for the Children’s and YA category of the Polari Prize\, author of LGBTQ+ inclusive picture books including The Pirate Mums and The Legend of the Wild West Twins\, and edited this year’s special LGBTQ+ issue of The Bookseller. \nDonations encouraged to Mosaic LGBT+ Young Persons’ Trust – see below.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-childrens-ya-prize-online-panel/
LOCATION:Online Events\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online Events
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SUMMARY:Polari at Sweatbox Soho
DESCRIPTION:With Neil Bartlett\, Alexis Gregory\, Piero Toto and Kostya Tsolakis. \n  \nLondon’s multi award-winning LGBTQ literary salon gets steamy at Soho’s multi award-winning\, men only gym and spa. \nHosted by Paul Burston with Neil Bartlett\, Alexis Gregory\, Piero Toto and Kostya Tsolakis\, who is shortlisted for this year’s Polari First Book Prize. \n  \nNeil Bartlett is an author\, theatre maker and performer\, who has been making ground-breaking queer theatre since the 1980s. His recent theatre work includes productions of Orlando\, Jeckyll and Hyde\, As You Like It and Blue Now. His books include Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall\, Skin Lane\, The Disappearance Boy and Address Book\, which was shortlisted for The Polari Prize 2023. \n  \nAlexis Gregory is a playwright and performer. His plays include Riot Act\, Sex/Crime\, FutureQueer\, Neon Divine\, Safe\, and Slap\, and the recent Smoke at Kings Head Theatre. His plays have been performed in the West End\, across London and the UK\, and online\, with Riot Act currently streaming globally on Broadway on Demand. He next performs Riot Act at 21Soho for World AIDS Day 2024. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing. \nPiero Toto (he/lui) is a London-based bilingual poet\, Italian translator and translation lecturer\, with poems in Magma Poetry\, Poetry London\, fourteen poems and Queer Life\, Queer Love II (Muswell Press\, 2023) amongst other publications. In Italy\, he has published poetry pamphlet tempo 4/4 (Transeuropa Edizioni\, 2021) and contributes to lit-blogs Atelier and Laboratori Poesia\, translating contemporary UK poets into Italian. \n  \nKostya Tsolakis was born and raised in Athens\, Greece\, and now lives in London. He is founding editor of harana poetry\, the online magazine for poets writing in English as a second or parallel language. His debut book Greekling is shortlisted for The Polari First Book Prize 2024. \n  \nAttendees have the option of remaining clothed or paying an additional £5 to Sweatbox for a locker and towel on arrival\, which will allow access to all the facilities (usual admission price £23) \n  \nPlease note : this is a male adult only space and you will encounter nudity. \n  \nPart of the Polari Prize National Showcase\, funded by Arts Council England.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-at-sweatbox-soho/
LOCATION:SweatBox Soho\, Ramillies House\, 1-2 Ramillies St\, London\, Westminster\, W1F 7LN\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Polari Live Online
DESCRIPTION:Two weeks before this year’s Polari Prize winners are announced at The British Library\, Polari goes live online with shortlisted authors Nicola Dinan\, Viola Di Grado and Paul Stephenson. \n  \nViola Di Grado is a London-based Italian author with works published in fifteen countries. With her first novel “70% Acrylic 30% Wool” she became the youngest winner of Italy’s prestigious Premio Campiello Opera Prima. She is also a contributor for various newspapers\, including The Guardian\, and a literary translator: among others\, she has translated works by Patricia Highsmith and Joyce Carol Oates. Her novel Blue Hunger is shortlisted for The Polari Prize. \nNicola Dinan grew up in Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur and now lives in London. Bellies\, her debut\, was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize\, shortlisted for the Mo Siewcharran Prize\, the Polari First Book Prize and the Diverse Book Awards\, and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her second novel\, Disappoint Me\, will be published in 2025. \n  \nPaul Stephenson’s collection ‘Hard Drive’ was published by Carcanet in June 2023. It was shortlisted for the Gay Poetry category of the Lambda Literary award in the US and is currently shortlisted for the Polari Book Prize. He has three previous pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop\, 2015); The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance\, 2016)\, written after the November 2015 terrorist attacks\, and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press\, 2017). \nHosted by prize founder and chair of the judges\, Paul Burston. \n  \nPart of the Polari Prize National Showcase\, funded by Arts Council England.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-live-online/
LOCATION:Greater London
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SUMMARY:Polari on Sea
DESCRIPTION:Polari returns to The Printworks\, Hastings with Paul Burston\, Adam Macqueen\, VG Lee\, Joelle Taylor and more TBA. \nAdam 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. \n  \nVG 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.\nIn 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 \n  \nJoelle 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.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-on-sea/
LOCATION:The Printworks\, 14 Claremont\, Hasting\, East Sussex\, TN34 1HA\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Polari Prize Shortlist Showcase at Queer Lit\, Manchester
DESCRIPTION:With Rachel Dawson and Orlando Ortega Medina.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-prize-shortlist-showcase-at-queer-lit-manchester/
LOCATION:Queer Lit\, Great Ancoats St\, Manchester\, Greater Manchester\, M4 5AJ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Polari at Norwich Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:With Karen McLeod\, Jon Ransom and David Shenton.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-at-norwich-book-festival/
LOCATION:Norwich Book Festival\, The Forum\, Millennium Plain\, Norwich\, Norfolk\, NR2 1TF\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241023
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SUMMARY:Polari at Uxbridge Library
DESCRIPTION:With Gaar Adams\, Karen McLeod and Kostya Tsolakis.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-at-uxbridge-library/
LOCATION:Uxbridge Library\, High St\, Uxbridge\, UB8 1HD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Polari at Exeter Phoenix
DESCRIPTION:With Paul Burston\, Joshua Jones\, VG Lee\, Natalie McGrath and Nicholas Pegg.
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-at-exeter-phoenix/
LOCATION:Exeter Phoenix\, Gandy St\, Exeter\, Devon\, EX4 3LS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Polari at Ironworks Studio\, Brighton
DESCRIPTION:With Neil Bartlett\, Karen McLeod\, Orlando Ortega Medina and Joell
URL:https://www.polarisalon.com/program/polari-at-ironworks-studio-brighton/
LOCATION:Ironwork Studio\, 30 Cheapside\, Brighton\, Brighton and Hove\, BN1 4GD\, United Kingdom
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