DiF Hangout for Writers & Readers | Free
Thu, 05 Sept
|Social Refuge Cafe
Join us at our drop-in, find out more about DiF Writers and our plans for misfit gay and queer writing with an edge. Writers and Readers of this kind of stuff, come and tell us about it. Editors, agents, publishers and producers welcome.
Time & Location
05 Sept 2024, 16:00 – 19:00
Social Refuge Cafe, 27 Great Ancoats St, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5AJ, UK
About the Event
This is a hangout so anything goes really. Social Refuge is the great cafe in QueerLit bookshop.
DiF
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Focus on exciting writing that might usually be passed over by mainstream publishers.
Interested in the edgy - outsider, experimental, extreme, challenging, controversial, transgressive.
Focus on fiction but any genre really.
No geographical boundaries to membership - no language boundaries - whatever works best.
Also connecting with editors, agents, presses, publishers and translators who have a real desire to work with these kinds of writers.
Sam Jenks is a fiction writer and producer. He is based in Bristol but retains strong links to Manchester where he lived for many years. He founded and directed Out on the Page, a successful LGBTQ+ writing project that has been running since 2018 both online and in-person. Out on the Page is taking a break for the rest of 2024 whilst he explores potential new projects in literature.
Joana Merlini is a Videographer and Artist. A professional in the entertainment industry for 17 years she has worked across a range of media including live broadcasting and music festivals. She is based in Bristol but often works internationally. Her rights based art projects include Bristol Mural Collective.