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Hundreds of events for adults, teenagers and children feature authors, illustrators, musicians, poets, policians, thinkers, prize-winners and rising stars every August.
Ted Hughes Award-winning poet Hollie McNish’s irreverent book, Slug, brings a focus on diverse topics including grief, the body and anti-masturbation pants. Joelle Taylor’s C+nto & Othered Poems won the 2021 T S Eliot Prize for its examination of...
The publication of Imogen Binnie’s first novel Nevada in 2013 was a watershed moment in transgender fiction. Following a trans punk woman, Nevada reflects on gender, heteronormativity and social conditioning as its protagonist flits across America in...
Arinze Ifeakandu has garnered praise from fans including Eloghosa Osunde, Damon Galgut and Colm Tóibín for his debut collection of short stories, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things. Both searing and tender, Ifeakandu’s portrayal of queer life...
This is the story of a man who took on the establishment – and it seemed he’d lost. But Norman Scott’s own perspective on his secret affair with politician Jeremy Thorpe in the 1970s has gained credence thanks to the TV drama, A Very English...
Isabel Waidner’s third novel Sterling Karat Gold won the Goldsmiths Prize in 2021. Following a non-binary migrant on a surreal adventure through the streets of London, it offers a satire of the British justice system that reads like a wild update of...
Take control of your own narrative with award-winning poet and performer Joelle Taylor. LGBTQIA+ literature is thriving, and this workshop shows you how to take personal experience and perspectives to create new forms of poetry. Using techniques...
In 2021, Torrey Peters became the first trans woman nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction – a milestone in the history of literature. Peters acknowledges that Detransition, Baby builds on the legacy of writers including Imogen Binnie –...
Adapted from Luke Cassidy’s debut novel, this stage show tells the story of Aoife and her obsessive love affair with Annie. Dive into the fictive drug-fueled underworld of the Irish town of Dundalk and discover a swaggering cast of lovers, chancers...
Last year Val McDermid launched a major new series of connected thrillers. After the stellar success of 1979, McDermid discusses its follow-up with Allan Little. In 1989 Allie Burns is older, wiser and a senior journalist on a Scottish tabloid. Against...
20 percent of Paris’s population are immigrants but they are often relegated to the margins of the city. The outsider experience is central to two prize-winning autobiographical novels by Fatima Daas and Shumona Sinha. In her rhapsodic debut, The Last...
Announcing our Communities Programme and Citizen events this August 
