Queer Writing workshop with BAFTA-winner Dean Atta

About

Join award-winning screenwriter, author and poet Dean Atta for a queer writing workshop. In this session, Dean will guide you through the many possibilities of writing queer experiences across borders and beyond boundaries. How can we apply historical, societal and personal experiences of home, displacement and migration to writing about self-discovery and freedom? Writers of all experiences are welcome. While this workshop will be conducted in English, writers are invited to write in whatever language(s) they feel most comfortable. Dean Atta is a BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and Stonewall Book Award-winning author from London. Best known for his young adult novel in verse, The Black Flamingo, and the stop-motion animation, Two Black Boys in Paradise, his heartfelt storytelling draws on his Greek Cypriot and Jamaican heritage as well as his queer identity. Dean is a patron of LGBT+ History Month and Chair of the Poetry and Spoken Word Group of the Society of Authors. He has published three young adult novels in verse, two poetry collections, two picture books, a memoir, and most recently his debut adult novel, Big Man.