Featuring
Booker-nominated author Paul Bailey
Author/Aerialist Will Davis
Filmmaker Campbell X
Writer/Publisher Helen Sandler
Poet/Performer Andra Simons
Artist Aliyahgator
Councillor Mark Gettleson

This event celebrates the diverse voices of leading lesbian and gay authors and artists. An accompanying exhibition by Aliyahgator - Home And Away: LGBT Londoners - will also be on show.

Please note that booking is advised. You can do so instore, by calling 02074079316 or online using the form at the bottom of this page.

Home And Away:
LGBT Londoners
Accompanying exhibition by Aliyahgator
14 Feb - 11 Mar 2012

_Paul Bailey is an award-winning writer whose novels include At The Jerusalem, which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers' Award; Peter Smart's Confessions and Gabriel's Lament, both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; Sugar Cane and a sequel to Gabriel's Lament, Kitty and Virgil. He is the recipient of the E. M. Forster Award and the George Orwell Memorial Award, and has also written and presented features for radio. His latest work is Chapman's Odyssey, published by Bloomsbury.
Photo credit: Jonathan Ring

_Will Davis was born in 1980 and lives in London. His first novel My Side of the Story won the 2007 Betty Trask Prize. His other works include Dream Machine and the soon-to-be-released The Trapeze Artist (Bloomsbury, May 2012).  He has also written blogs for The Guardian and is books editor for Attitude magazine. For more information, visit Will Davis' website.
Photo credit: Tamsin Davies

_ Helen Sandler writes poetry and fiction. Her published novels are The Touch Typist and Big Deal. Previously books editor of Diva magazine and director of the York Lesbian Arts Festival, she now runs Tollington Press, publishing new writing by women. She is also the arts programmer for L Fest. For more information, visit Helen Sandler's website.

__Campbell is an award-winning filmmaker/curator and has written/produced and directed Stud Life an urban queer feature film which is currently in post-production due for release in 2012. Campbell’s  films  include the award-winning BD Women (1994) about Black lesbian lives, and Legacy (2006) which explores the lasting impact of slavery on Black families and Fem (2007), a butch homage to queer femininity. Campbell’s body of work was honoured by the Queer Black Cinema festival in New York in March 2009. Image, Memory and Representation was a retrospective of her work which was programmed at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2007. For more information, visit BlackmanVision.
Photo credit: Robert Taylor

Andra Simons is a Bermudian writer and performer living in London. He published his debut collection The Joshua Tales (Treehouse Press, UK) in 2009. Andra has published and performed in Canada, Caribbean, UK and the US. For more infomation about Andra, visit his website.
Photo credit: AbsolutQueer

Aliyahgator was born in Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth, and now lives in London. Aliyahgator has lived in all four quarters of London, north, east, south and west, and has finally chosen South East London as a permanent home. Aliyahgator draws using biros, and also felt tip pens and coloured pencils. Aliyahgator’s illustrations have been used in newspapers, magazines, fashion magazines, and online zines. For more information about Aliyahgator’s illustrations please visit the website at www.aliyahgator.com. _