Queer Storytelling in the ACCA Café: Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

Four of the country’s most exciting and enthralling LGBTQIA+ writers-come-performers are performing newly commissioned stories by Marlborough Productions and New Writing South for The Coast is Queer. You will be able to catch their premiering pop-up performances and readings in the café bar throughout the festival. So grab a brew and a pew to hear their titillating short tales written especially for you.

Gayathiri Kamalakanthan will be exploring bodies of water; the ocean in Jaffna, their school swimming pool and tiny bathtubs where they fell in and out of love.

Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil poet and producer. They’re interested in how language shapes adolescence and how we might use it to build freer futures. Gayathiri is a recipient of the Disabled Poets Prize, the Faber & Andlyn Publisher’s Prize and the RSL Literature Matters Award. Their play Period Parrrty is a romcom-esque exploration of trans, Tamil love and survival, and opens at Soho Theatre in October this year. Their debut novel-in-verse, Bad Queer, is forthcoming with Faber. gayathiri.co.uk, @unembarrassable.

Photo Credit: Mike Boffey

Please note: Relevant content warnings will be shared before each performance.

Queer Storytelling in the ACCA Café: Gayathiri Kamalakanthan

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