Pride Month is a fantastic occasion to recognise and celebrate LGBTQ+ Literature, in all its forms.

Free to watch & listen to during June

We are proud to platform a plethora of LGBTQ+ literature each year. To celebrate pride month, we have made four of our previously recorded LGBTQ+ events available to watch for free on our website.
Available for the month of June.

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A very special event from the winner of the coveted T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Joelle Taylor joins us for an electrifying evening reading from her debut novel, The Night Alphabet. As a former UK poetry slam champion, Taylor is a spellbinding performer. We can’t wait for you to discover the rich and varied stories – from coal mines to dystopian cities and gay bars – told through her protagonist’s interconnected tattoos. 

Douglas Stuart talks to Alex Clark about Young Mungo. Juxtaposing aching tenderness with the brutality of toxic masculinity, Young Mungo tells the story of Mungo and James: two young men newly, rawly, dangerously in love. 

In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.

In this specially commissioned film shot at her studio in Suffolk, Maggi Hambling celebrates the work of her father, the visionary Suffolk artist Harry Hambling (1902–98), and the long-awaited publication of his book A Suffolk Eye, which brings together Harry’s works for the first time. This tender and intimate conversation with Luke Syson, Director and Marlay Curator, The Fitzwilliam Musuem, is a praise song to Maggie’s father.

Watch a collection of inspirational talks from the brilliant LGBTQ+ writers who have previously attended our festival.

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Why not delve deeper into our archive of over 400 recorded events on a broad range of topics. Available on any device from anywhere in the world, whenever you want.

Jackie Kay | Isabel Waidner| Jacqueline Wilson | Robin Stevens | Michael Heseltine | Robert Macfarlane | Gary Younge | Lindsey Hilsum | Ash Sarkar | Jack Monroe | Emma Barnett | Jeffrey Boakye | Nadiya Hussain

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