The Queer Girls Book Club presents Christina Fonthes

The Queer Girls Book Club is coming to The Coast is Queer and bringing exciting debut novelist Christina Fonthes into the spotlight. Christina’s stunning debut novel Where You Go, I Will Go takes us from 1980s Kinshasa to 2000s London where the stakes of love collide with religion and societal expectations, as two women search for a place of belonging. Christina will be joining the host of The Queer Girls Book Club, Ayse Huseyin, to read from the book, discuss the novel and answer your questions. 

All ticket holders will be sent a hardback copy of the book in advance to the address they booked their ticket under. If you’d like your book sent elsewhere, please email liam@newwritingsouth.com. (The price of postage is included in the ticket price).

Christina Fonthes is a Congolese-British writer and the founder of REWRITE, an organisation that supports and champions Black women and women of colour writers. In 2021 she won the RSL Sky Arts Writers Award for Fiction, and was mentored by Bernardine Evaristo and Irenosen Okojie. Her debut novel Where You Go, I Will Go takes us from 1980s Kinshasa to 2000s London where the stakes of love collide with religion and societal expectations, as two women search for a place of belonging.

(Chair) Lifelong bookworm Ayse Huseyin is the founder of the Queer Girls Book Club: a London based group that was born out of a passion to spotlight and celebrate queer literature.  Whilst writing her dissertation for her English Literature degree, Ayse discovered the works of Sappho, Amy Lowell and Alison Bechdel. Nurtured through her coming out journey by this literary canon, one thing became clear: queer literature was expansive, healing and sharing it was a radical act of community building and love. When she isn’t doing book club admin or her day job, Ayse can be found dragging a bag of books around and insisting she doesn’t need an E-reader, in her local indie bookshop, or passionately supporting other queer community events around London.

Important: Festival or day passes do not include access to this event. To attend the workshop, you must book a separate ticket using the link below.