Open Book Festival

Writing Queer Masculinity is out now! (No pun intended.)

This episode combines lightness and honesty while exploring vulnerability in writing from personal experiences.

Zubayr Charles, Preven Reddy and Wesley Roodt speak to Riley Herbert-Henry about how the world reacts to queerness and how this shaped their stories.

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Award-winning comedian, actor and digital creator Preven Reddy. Now a debut author of ‘Qualified Disappointment’.

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Zubayr Charles - playwright, poet and debut novelist with his recent release ‘Haram’.

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Scriptwriter and director, whose short film screened at the Cannes and Sundance film festivals, Wesley Roodt. Debut author of ‘All the Saints’.

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