Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2012
Year three of this eclectic, amusing, inspiring, sometimes audacious and always brilliant festival, set up to celebrate the area's radical thinking and literary heritage.
Year three of this eclectic, amusing, inspiring, sometimes audacious and always brilliant festival, set up to celebrate the area's radical thinking and literary heritage.
Diane Abbott MP hosts some of the leading writers from the African Diaspora: Margaret Busby OBE is an award-winning writer, editor and broadcaster. She edited Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of words and writing by women of African descent. Ade Solanke, currently artist-in-residence at Goldsmiths, is a playwright and screenwriter whose work has been performed at The Almeida and Old Vic. She has worked as a Story Analyst in Hollywood and is currently running the Spora Stores project at The Young Vic. Together, they discuss black British literature and how biographical questions of identity and freedom are broadening into wider genres of fiction and non-fiction.
Tickets on the door for this event