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Time & Location
19 Sept 2026, 19:30
Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Road, Hastings TN34 1DT, UK
About The Event
Award-winning LGBTQ literary salon returns to Hastings for the Book Festival.
Hosted by local author Paul Burston with special guests:
Alice Denny - Brighton based performance poet and judge for the Polari Prize 2026
Dillon Jaxx - Bexhill based poet with their debut poetry collection 'like starlings falling'.
Simon Maddrell - whose debut book ‘lamping wild rabbits' is long-listed in the 2026 Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection.
John McCullough - winner of The Polari First Book Prize 2012, back with his new poetry collection ‘Crowd Voltage’
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