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Sebastian Wayneflete
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Sebastian Damien Wayneflete (born 31st March, 1983) is a writer, poet, literary critic and gay activist based in London England. Familiarly known as Seb, he is a noted polemicist – he reckons he inherits his tendencies, if not his politics, from his grandmother Sybil Wayneflete who campaigned in the 1970s to have works about homosexuality banned

Closer to his own values was his great-grandmother, The Hon Lavinia Wayneflete, who wrote extensively in the 1920s and 30s under various pen names, advocating women’s suffrage, sex education and birth control, but her writings were suppressed after her principled but reviled pacifist stance during the Second World War. As well as involvement with the London Gay Anarchist Collective, Seb Wayneflete is also much involved in his local community. A recent contribution he made to his local community newspaper, The Fitzrovia News (and an example of his critical writing) can be found here. An exponent of Crowd-Found Poetry, he conducts Poetry Found in Memory sessions for the Fitzrovia Active Age Group and has merlinned flash mob Found Poetry Slams at a number of venues in Central London and elsewhere.

Sebastian Wayneflete’s novel, Heteroclites in Love, the first of a planned sequence based on the eccentric Wayneflete family, spanning six generations, is to be published in the New Year. He is currently working on its sequel The Prepotency of Love.

He is engaged to be married to French architect PIerre-Antoine Belletusche.