The 2026 Festival Programme Is Released (with more events to come!)
Information and tickets for festival events. Don’t miss out on our 3-Day and 1 Day Passes, because once you’re here you won’t want to go home!
Friday
Queer Publishing Day: Meet The Agents
16 October 2026 • 11:00am
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The Queer Bookshelf
16 October 2026 • 11:00am
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Self-Publishing: The Good, The Bad and the Beautiful
16 October 2026 • 12:00pm
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In Conversation with Martin Sherman and Nathan Evans
16 October 2026 • 1:00pm
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Workshop: Get Your Non-Fiction Proposal Ready for Submission with Abi Fellows and Layla McCay
16 October 2026 • 1:00pm
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Workshop: Remapping Masculinity
16 October 2026 • 1:30pm
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Queer Histories: Retold and Reclaimed
16 October 2026 • 2:00pm
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Queer Publishing Day: Queer Writing and Publishing for Children and Young Adults
16 October 2026 • 2:45pm
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It’s A Crime
16 October 2026 • 2:45pm
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The Queer Body
16 October 2026 • 4:00pm
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Workshop: Get Ready For Agent Submission with Caro Clarke
16 October 2026 • 4:00pm
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Workshop: Writing Place with Louise Welsh
16 October 2026 • 4:45pm
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Queer Publishing Day: Radical Queer (re)Publishing
16 October 2026 • 5:00pm
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Queer Histories from Ancient Times to Yesterday
16 October 2026 • 5:30pm
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Queer Masculinities
16 October 2026 • 6:00pm
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Poetry Paradise with Dean Atta, Nikita Gill and myndstate
16 October 2026 • 7:00pm
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Saturday
Lesbian Custody: Breaking The Silence
17 October 2026 • 11:00am
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Telling Stories, Making History, and Queering the Archive (featuring Mass Observation)
17 October 2026 • 11:00am
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Obsess, Obsesses, Obsessed, Obsessing
17 October 2026 • 11:45am
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Against The Odds
17 October 2026 • 12:00pm
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Big Debuts: Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin and Rozie Kelly
17 October 2026 • 1:30pm
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Queering the Classics – a Found Poetry Workshop: Saturday
17 October 2026 • 2:00pm
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Emotional Ties and Linked Lives: Family Isn’t Always (Straight)forward
17 October 2026 • 2:00pm
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Queer Nature, Radical Gardens
17 October 2026 • 2:00pm
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Queer Disability History
17 October 2026 • 3:30pm
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Keep it Creepy: Writing Horror Workshop with Kirsty Logan
17 October 2026 • 3:45pm
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Resonating Ground: A Creative Writing Workshop for Global Majority Writers
17 October 2026 • 4:00pm
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In conversation with Tareq Baconi and Leilah King
17 October 2026 • 5:30pm
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Open Mic with AFLO the Poet
17 October 2026 • 5:30pm
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Juno Dawson’s Lovely Trans Sofa
17 October 2026 • 7:30pm
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Sunday
Mum’s the Word
18 October 2026 • 11:00am
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Old Places, New Stories
18 October 2026 • 11:00am
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Telling Stories, Making History, and Queering the Archive (featuring Mass Observation)
18 October 2026 • 11:00am
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The Drag Files: Zine Launch
18 October 2026 • 11:30am
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In Conversation with Susan Stryker and Shon Faye
18 October 2026 • 1:00pm
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Queering the Classics – a Found Poetry Workshop: Sunday
18 October 2026 • 2:00pm
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Sapphic Spaces
18 October 2026 • 2:30pm
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In Conversation with Thomas Glave and Jason Okundaye
18 October 2026 • 3:00pm
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In Conversation with Patrick Gale and Curtis Garner
18 October 2026 • 3:30pm
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In Conversation with Sarah Waters and Julia Armfield
18 October 2026 • 5:00pm
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