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Polari Tour - the next leg
Tickets are now on sale for the next leg of the Polari Prize National Showcase, funded by Arts Council England. Between now and the end of April, we'll…
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Polari Prize worldwide
On Wednesday we announced this year’s Polari Prize shortlists at Polari on Sea in Hastings and on our social media accounts. The response so far has been extraordinary…
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Polari Prize Hall of Fame - 1
The Polari First Book Prize turns TEN this year. That’s a lot of submissions - and a fair number of Prize winners. Last year we added a second…
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Meet the Judges
As the deadline for submissions for this year's Polari Prize awards approaches, here are a few words from our judges – including Cerys Evans, Chris Gribble, Keith Jarrett…
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Polari Prize 2020
Submissions for this year's Polari Prize awards are flooding in. Due to the problems posed by Covid19, we've extended the deadline to next Friday, May 8. So now…
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Polari Prize calls for submissions
These ten books are all past winners of the Polari Prize for LGBTQ+ writing. The Polari First Book Prize began in 2011 and was won by James Maker…
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Fiona Mozley wins Polari Prize 2018
Yorkshire-based writer, Fiona Mozley, has been awarded the Polari First Book Prize 2018 for her Man Booker-shortlisted debut, Elmet (John Murray). Announced at a ceremony at London’s Southbank…
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Polari First Book Prize 2018
In 2007, when I created Polari literary salon, there wasn’t all this talk of diversity in publishing we hear today. In 2011, when I founded The Polari First…
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