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TRUSTEES
David Sheppeard – Acting Chair of Trustees David co-founded the Marlborough Productions in 2009. His work for the company has encompassed a wide range of projects from the groundbreaking national LGBTQIA+ touring theatre project New Queer of the Block to the heritage project Queer in Brighton. He specialises in work made for unusual contexts that challenges notions about how and where queer led work can be presented. David continues to develop his own artistic work as a writer and performer.
Petal Felix
Petal Felix is a Journalist with over thirty years experience . She has produced and presented Radio 4 and BBC world service and also produced documentaries for the BBC and indies.
She was a contributing editor for a Woman’s press book, The Female Gaze, a non fiction book which looked at the role of women in popular culture.
She is particularly interested in books by black writers.
Katy Massey
Are we home yet? Katy Massey’s childhood memoir was published in 2020 by Jacaranda and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize in 2021. She worked as a journalist for many years before completing a PhD on memoir and race at Newcastle University. Alongside her own work, she has guided and published numerous emerging writers and initiated her own Arts Council-funded literature projects. She has published two anthologies of memoir: Tangled Roots: True Life Stories About Mixed Race Britain, featuring 30-plus contributions, and Who are we now? a collection of first-person experiences of the 2016 Brexit referendum. She lives in East Sussex with her family and has just finished writing her first novel.
Facebook.com/katymasseyauthor Twitter: @Tangledroots1 Katymassey.com.
Vedrana Velickovic
Dr Vedrana Velickovic is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Brighton where she convenes modules on Queer Writing, Black British, Postcolonial and European Literatures. She is the author of Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literatures and Cultures: Imagining New Europe (Palgrave 2019) and several articles on Black British and post-Yugoslav women’s writers, BrexLit and post-communism. She is also a member of the New Writing South’s Executive Board and co-founder (with Dr Vy Rajapillai) of the DeCol Collective.