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Write Queer London Workshop

UntoldLondon is running its second annual Queer History Writing Prize in association with Chroma Queer Arts Journal. London has long been a place to find soul-mates, friends, lovers and a political haven from persecution. The competition welcomes fact, fiction and poetry about gay life, and the history of gay lives in London.

To inspire creativity poet Peter Daniels will be running a workshop looking at the poem as a little story or drama  giving an individual account of what it means to be gay in london both past and present.

Peter won the 2008 Arvon Poetry Competition with his poem ‘Shoreditch Orchid’ which also won the Ted Hughes Environmental Poetry Prize. He worked as an editor for many years on the magazine Poetry London, and he is currently researching the history of Quakers in London.  His first publication was a joint collection with Moniza Alvi, Peacock Luggage; followed up by Be Prepared, Through the Bushes and Blue Mice. For Oscars Press he edited the anthologies Take Any Train: A Book of Gay Men’s Poetry, and (with Steve Anthony) Jugular Defences: An Aids Anthology.  His latest book of poetry, Work and Food, will be published soon by the new Mulfran Press.

Places are free, but please book; contact Alan Ward on 020 7420 9886 or email marketingassistant@poetrysociety.org.uk