The University of Sussex is hosting this year’s Coast is Queer Festival - Brighton & Hove’s annual festival of LGBTQ+ writing from 10-13 October 2024, with two recent graduates and a current student supporting as guest curators.

The festival, held at the University’s Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), will include four days of lively conversations, panels, workshops, performances and films celebrating some of the best and brightest LGBTQ+ writers, including Juno Dawson, Roxy Bourdillon, Owen Jones, AFLO. the poet, Tanushka Marah and Saleem Haddad.

We are offering the following prizes to Sussex students:

• First prize: a pair of festival passes that gives one lucky student entry to all events across the whole festival with a friend.
• Second prizes: 4x single day passes for any of the days of the festival (winners can choose which day they would like).

How to enter the competition

To be in with a chance of winning one of the above prizes, all you need to do is enter your University of Sussex email address via the following form, and let us know which day you would prefer for the second prize day pass.

Enter the competition.

The deadline for entering is Sunday 6 October at 11:45pm. Winners will be contacted by email with details of their prize the following day.

You can read the Terms and Conditions of the competition here.

Find out more about Coast is Queer and check out the festival programme. Don’t forget, even if you don’t win one of the festival passes, you can still purchase student-rate tickets to events for just £2!