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Stoke Newington Literary Festival

2022 programme

  • Friday, 3rd June
  • The Pyjama Myth. £6
    Time – 17:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs Room
  • Freelance writing has never been a more popular career path, but alongside its benefits come very real obstacles that are […]

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  • Laura Bates: Fix the System. £10
    Time – 17:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Hall
  • Too often, we blame women: for walking home alone at night, for not demanding a seat at the table, for […]

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  • Gala Night. £8
    Time – 18:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • In the 3 years since the last festival, the world has changed dramatically. We’ll help provide a partial catch-up. Richard […]

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  • Neil Martinson: Gentrification in Hackney. £4
    Time – 19:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs Room
  • Hackney in the 1970s was raw and vivid: bombed-out houses, kids playing in the streets, factories abuzz with workers. Neil […]

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  • Shine On Me. £5
    Time – 21:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs Room
  • Youth cult meets the occult. Tim Wells’ latest skinhead werewolf pulp horror Shine On Me discusses youthsploitation, New English Library […]

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  • Saturday, 4th June
  • KIDS! Family Disco. £4
    Time – 11:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Jude’s kids’ POP! disco a few years ago was so ridiculously popular that we persuaded her to go large, or […]

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  • A10. SOLD OUT!
    Time – 11:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs Room
  • Free!

    The A10 is Stoke Newington’s High Street but runs from Monument in the City to the ancient Hanseatic port of […]

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  • The Babel Message. £5
    Time – 12:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Keith Kahn-Harris is obsessed with the warning message found inside Kinder Surprise eggs: ‘WARNING, read and keep: Toy not suitable […]

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  • Sins of our Fathers. £6
    Time – 12:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Hall
  • Lily Dunn (Sins of My Father) was just six years old when her father left the family home for the […]

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  • KIDS! Stories on the Green. free
    Time – 12:30, Venue – Newington Green
  • Free!

    Join our story time session on Newington Green with classic picture books for little ones. There are also activity sheets […]

  • Emma Kennedy. £8
    Time – 13:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Comedian, writer, actor and Celebrity Masterchef Champion Emma published Letters From Brenda this year – a searingly funny, wry and […]

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  • The Mercenary River. SOLD OUT!
    Time – 13:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs Room
  • No city can survive without water, and lots of it. The Mercenary River tells a tale of remarkable technological, scientific […]

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  • John Williams: CLR James. £4
    Time – 14:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was lauded as the greatest of Black British intellectuals: one of the truly […]

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  • KIDS! Write Your Own Future. £4
    Time – 14:00, Venue – Grasmere Primary School
  • From world peace to alien invasion, from global weirding to artificial intelligence, the fate of our planet is impossible to […]

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  • Daisy Buchanan. £8
    Time – 14:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Hall
  • Award-winning journalist, author, broadcaster and host of the insanely popular You’re Booked podcast joins us to talk to Catherine Steadman […]

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  • Jude Rogers: The Sound of Being Human. £8
    Time – 15:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Jude Rogers’ Sound of Being Human combines memoir and historical, scientific and cultural enquiry to show how music can shape […]

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  • Rising Stars. free
    Time – 16:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Free!

    If you don’t get here on time, you’ll miss your chance to catch some of tomorrow’s literary stars before all […]

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  • Literary Quiz. £2 per person
    Time – 18:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • At the 2019 festival, quizmeister Andrew Harrison (former editor of Q and Word Magazine and host of the Bunker and […]

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  • Will Sergeant: Bunnyman. £12
    Time – 19:30, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Growing up in Liverpool in the ‘60s and ’70s, a young Will Sergeant found the emerging punk scene provided a […]

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  • Nerd Night. £8
    Time – 20:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Welcome to Nerd Nite London, where it’s hip to be square. We invite some of the very cleverest people in […]

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  • Universal Erection.
    Time – 20:00, Venue – Mascara Bar
  • Universal Erection gets even bigger with our LGBTQIA+ showcase. Craving chaotic, big hearted, literature based silliness? You need some Universal […]

  • Sunday, 5th June
  • KIDS! Marvellous Doctors for Magical Creatures. £4
    Time – 11:00, Venue – Grasmere Primary School
  • Meet Ava and her dads, the Marvellous Doctors for Magical Creatures! Join author Jodie Lancet-Grant for a magical, fun, interactive […]

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  • History of Stokey. £5
    Time – 11:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Everyone’s favourite local historian Amir Dotan (@HistoryofStokey) tells a fascinating story about Stoke Newington’s lost cinemas and pubs. There’s a […]

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  • Pete Paphides. £8
    Time – 12:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Pete’s award-winning memoir Broken Greek is the story of how a sensitive, silent child of immigrants learned to cope with […]

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  • Through the Looking Glasses. £4
    Time – 13:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • The humble pair of glasses might just be one the world’s greatest inventions and yet how much do many of […]

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  • KIDS! Strictly Come Myths and Legends. £4
    Time – 13:00, Venue – Grasmere Primary School
  • What kind of things do you like and that make you happy or give you hope? Let Maisie take you […]

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  • Slow Horses: Mick Herron & Will Smith. £10
    Time – 14:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Whether you’re glued to the TV adaptation of Mick’s Slow Horses / Slough House series or not, he indubitably picked […]

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  • KIDS! Pulling Faces: comics workshop. £4
    Time – 15:00, Venue – Grasmere Primary School
  • Come and draw expressive faces with Tor Freeman, illustrator and comic-maker. Expressions are a vital part of drawing any character, […]

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  • Author Confidential. £5
    Time – 15:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • LitFest favourite Andy Miller (host of the chart-topping Backlisted podcast) comperes one of the very best shows about what it’s […]

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  • Clubland: If It’s Good Enough for Shirley Bassey…. £6
    Time – 16:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Cultural historian and award-winning beer writer Pete Brown (Pie Fidelity, Shakespeare’s Local, Man Walks into a Pub & more), turns […]

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  • The Wilderness Cure: Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World. £4
    Time – 16:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs Room
  • Mo Wilde made a pledge to only live off free, foraged food for a year. She talks about how following […]

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  • Juke Box Fury. £6
    Time – 17:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • The World’s Coolest Retired Librarian™ Richard Boon (former Buzzcocks’ manager and creator of Spiral Scratch – referred to as ‘The […]

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  • TEENS! Patrice Lawrence Writing Workshop. £4
    Time – 17:00, Venue – Grasmere Primary School
  • Award-winning author Patrice Lawrence has been called a ‘vibrant, accomplished storyteller’ by The Guardian and is known for her brilliant […]

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  • Neil Martinson: Gentrification in Hackney. £4
    Time – 17:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Room
  • Hackney in the 1970s was raw and vivid: bombed-out houses, kids playing in the streets, factories abuzz with workers. Neil […]

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  • Led By Donkeys. £10
    Time – 19:00, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • With the Birdcage pub (RIP) in Stoke Newington as its campaign HQ, Led By Donkeys started as a ‘Brexit accountability […]

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