Queer Writing with Maria Jastrzebska and John McCullough.

Queer Writing South, an organization which supports and encourages local LGBT writers, returns for another workshop with THE SOUTH. Following on from the success of last year's workshop series and the resulting anthology Whoosh!, Maria and John are running a special one-off session on queer creativity for all those interested.

New and familiar faces are equally welcome at this workshop which will focus both on the relationship between sexuality and writing and on producing original fiction and poetry.  

For further details about the organisation, and other literary activities and events for LGBT writers int he region, see queerwritingsouth

About the Workshop Leaders

Maria Jastrzebska was born in Warsaw and grew up in London. She now lives in Brighton. Her collections include Postcards From Poland (Working Press), Home From Home (Flarestack) and Syrena (Redbeck Press). She was co-editor of the bilingual women’s anthology Forum Polek and of Poetry South (2007). Her work appears in anthologies and journals such as Images of Women (Arrowhead) and Poetry International Web, in the UK and in Finland France, Romania and Slovenia.

John McCullough grew up in Watford and now lives in Brighton. In 2002 he won first prize in the Robin Lee Memorial Poetry Competition. In 2006 he completed his doctorate on the homoerotics of Renaissance friendship at the University of Sussex. His poems have appeared in anthologies such as Reactions and magazines like The Rialto. His first collection, Cloudfish, was published by Pighog Press; and his new collection, The Lives of Ghosts, published by tall-lighthouse, was launched in May.