Juno Dawson’s Lovely Trans Literary Salon featuring Harry Nicholas

Juno Dawson returns to ​T​he Coast is Queer with more inspiring, joyful conversation with some of our best trans writers. This year Juno will be joined by writer and campaigner, Harry Nicholas.

Juno Dawson is a #1 Sunday Times best-selling novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and a columnist for Attitude Magazine. Juno’s books include the global bestsellers, This Book is Gay and Clean. She won the 2020 YA Book Prize for Meat Market. Her first adult fantasy trilogy Her Majesty’s Royal Coven launched in 2022, becoming an instant best-seller and she has just released the second book in the series to critical acclaim.

She also writes for television and has multiple shows in development both in the UK and US. Her debut short film was The Birth of Venus (BBC 2020) and she created the first official Doctor Who scripted podcast Doctor Who: Redacted (BBC Sounds 2022). An occasional actress and model, Juno had a cameo in the BBC’s I May Destroy You (2020), a recurring role in Holby City (BBC 2021) and was the face of Jecca Cosmetics Play Pots campaign.

Juno grew up in West Yorkshire, writing imaginary episodes of Doctor Who. She later turned her talent to journalism, interviewing luminaries such as Steps and Atomic Kitten, before writing a weekly serial in a Brighton newspaper. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, The Pool, Dazed and the Guardian. She has appeared on Pointless Celebrities, BBC Women’s Hour, Front Row, ITV News, Channel 5 News, This Morning and Newsnight.

Juno lives in Brighton. She is a part of the queer cabaret collective known as CLUB SILENCIO. In 2014, Juno became a School Role Model for the charity STONEWALL.

Harry Nicholas is a gay trans man living in London. He has contributed to articles in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Forbes, BBC Newsbeat and BBC3’s ‘Things not to say to a trans person’. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar is his first book and has been described as ‘hopeful and life affirming’.

This event will be BSL interpreted.