Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2013
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It’s 20 years since Trainspotting exploded into our collective consciousness (or unconsciousness, depending on where you were and who you [… read more]
Buy ticketsThurston Moore, guitarist with Sonic Youth, plays an intimate local gig with special guests.
Buy ticketsElif Shafak is Turkey’s best-selling female author, translated into over 30 languages. Her TED Talk on the politics of fiction [… read more]
Buy ticketsComedy actress, Celebrity Big Brother survivor, broadcaster, ex-host of The Kenny Everett Video Show and President of the Tequila Society, [… read more]
Buy ticketsDescribed by Malcom McLaren as ‘the Indiana Jones of world music’, Culshaw’s work for the Guardian, Observer and the Telegraph [… read more]
Buy ticketsAfter a sell-out first performance, ‘Reads Like a Seven’ comes to the Stoke Newington Literary Festival to showcase some of [… read more]
Buy ticketsBBC Radio 4’s VIV GROSKOP presents THE NIGHT I DIED, a celebration of the joys and horrors of live performance. [… read more]
Buy ticketsIan Bone (Class War) + Helen Mort + Niall O’Sullivan + Simon Barraclough + Tim Wells + Graham Bendel + [… read more]
Cut and colour collages with craft expert (and local author / illustrator) Clare Beaton. Exercise your creative muscles with a [… read more]
Join everyone’s favourite bear from deepest darkest Peru for storytime at the Stoke Newington Childrens Library.
Dive off Church Street for a quick dip into the unique cemetery that is Abney Park, for a whistle-stop tour [… read more]
For those already in Stoke Newington you may have already seen our small but perfectly formed erection (oh stop it, [… read more]
Join Mark Brake and Jon Chase as they explain everything you really need to know about The Doctor – split [… read more]
Buy ticketsDoes bacon really reign as Breakfast King? Emina, creator and editor of the London Review of Breakfasts blog, tackles the [… read more]
Buy ticketsThe Gentle Author’s mission statement is not one for the faint hearted: to write a story a day based on [… read more]
Buy ticketsEver wanted to grow your own but don’t have the time, the space, or even know where to start? Alice [… read more]
Hackney, rejoice? The recent rejection of the Stoke Newington Sainsbury’s plan marked jubilation for local campaigners – but was it [… read more]
Jojo Tulloh, food editor of The Week magazine and allotment-junkie, divides her time between her family, her garden and writing [… read more]
Buy ticketsLast year the festival was the same weekend as the Jubilee. This year we’re going one better, we’ve got the [… read more]
Buy ticketsAlex Clark, former editor of Granta and now literary critic for The Guardian and the BBC, brings together some of [… read more]
Local author, cook and gardener Debora Robertson opens up her garden and kitchen to demonstrate projects from her book, Gifts [… read more]
Buy ticketsBBC Newsnight’s Economics Editor Paul Mason talks to Penny Red blogger & New Statesman writer Laurie Penny, on an issue [… read more]
Buy ticketsIn his new book, The Sea Inside, Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for [… read more]
Buy ticketsLooking at how to make a living as a writer and performer. We’ll be looking at survival budgets, profile, social [… read more]
Take shelter from the (probable) English-summer storm and join John Osborne (John Peel’s Shed and Newsagent’s Window) and award-winning broadcaster [… read more]
Buy ticketsSix years ago London had just two brewers. Now the city is home to over forty. Beer Writer of the [… read more]
Buy ticketsTouring troubadours The New Libertines are back for a third year with NOTHING TO SAY, launching collections from the UK’s [… read more]
Buy ticketsMan-Booker-shortlisted Alison Moore and her editor Nicholas Royle read from their work and discuss the difficulty of the first novel. [… read more]
Buy ticketsAward winning science writer and broadcaster Professor Steve Jones tackles a re-write of the Bible post scientific illumination. The Serpent’s [… read more]
Buy ticketsIn a UNICEF study released in 2007, the UK came bottom of a list ranking industrialised nations in terms of [… read more]
Buy ticketsOnce appointed ‘Cartoonist Laureate’ of London (paid 1 pint of London Pride a year) and regular contributor to The Guardian, [… read more]
Buy ticketsStoke Newington’s alternative parish paper, N16 Magazine, has chronicled the changing face of the area, from Daniel Defoe to Church [… read more]
Buy ticketsCultural commentator, broadcaster, former band-manager and NME stalwart Morley explores what it means to be northern and why those who [… read more]
Buy ticketsCreative Journeys: Responses To Mental Health in Hackney, Present & Past is a collection of interviews with artists, poets and [… read more]
Skulk beside the murky waters of the Thames, or steal through maze-like backstreets of the East End as this event [… read more]
Buy ticketsFestival favourites and guaranteed to end Saturday night with a bang, Hegley & Ince are two of Britain’s bookiest – [… read more]
Buy ticketsHAndy Meinke (Freedom Bookshop) + Ian Parks + Influx Press + Tim Wells + Chip Grim + Kayo Chingonyi + [… read more]
Sponsors by the ever-wonderful Picador, Literary Death Match brings literary chaos to Stoke Newington on June 8th! The night will [… read more]
Buy ticketsCome along to our first comics event of the weekend, to find out how comics are made, and why. Two [… read more]
Buy ticketsTake a 55-minute, female-friendly frolic through the history of Hackney’s heroic women, with Hackney Tours on the ‘Feminist (Or Is [… read more]
“I wanted to have a main character who was dyslexic like me, except I wanted to portray him not through [… read more]
Buy ticketsThe Phoenix, the weekly story comic for children, makes a spirited return to the Stoke Newington Literary Festival. The supremely [… read more]
Buy ticketsSTIR magazine reveals its first printed issue at this year’s Stoke Newington Literary Festival, featuring community-orientated fashion alternatives. In the [… read more]
There are periods of history where women live more dangerous lives. Two brilliant non-fiction writers come together to look at [… read more]
Buy ticketsOne of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries, and a Stoke Newington community staple, Abney Park offers a place of contemplation away [… read more]
Buy ticketsThis great city has an inexhaustible fund of stories with endless perspectives always begging to be explored. Here are three [… read more]
Buy ticketsTariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker, described by The Observer as ‘an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower’. He has written [… read more]
Buy ticketsJoin everyone’s favourite bear from deepest darkest Peru for storytime at the Stoke Newington Childrens Library.
London Fictions is a book about London, real and imagined. It’s about East End Boys and West End Girls, bedsit [… read more]
Buy ticketsThe Literary Platform magazine explores the intersection of books and technology, and this event will look at the particular challenges [… read more]
Buy ticketsIan Kelly, award-winning biographer of Casanova, Beau Brummell, the world’s first celebrity chef Anton Careme and now Georgian eccentric Samuel [… read more]
Buy ticketsLocal author, cook and gardener Debora Robertson opens up her garden and kitchen to demonstrate projects from her book, Gifts [… read more]
Buy ticketsAaronovitch, author of London-based fantasy series Rivers of London and George Mann, author of the Newbury and Hobbes Series, take [… read more]
Buy ticketsDave Gibbons is one of the legends of comics and graphic novels. His imagery for The Watchmen has become part [… read more]
Buy ticketsA collection of rare short films and extracts from the BFI’s Film Archive to showcase the love affair of cinema [… read more]
Buy ticketsMoran describes herself as “like a shit Dickens or Orwell, but with tits”. By making pubic hair a conversation piece [… read more]
Buy ticketsAuthor of Dead Funny: Telling Jokes in Nazi Germany, and director of Channel 4 reality crime series The Heist (not [… read more]
Buy ticketsDavid Goodhart, Director of Think Tank Demos has written the controversial but thought-provoking The British Dream: Successes and Failures of [… read more]
Buy ticketsCelebrated biographer Jane Dunn and her daughter novelist Lily Dunn discuss their latest books and their own writing relationship. Jane’s [… read more]
Buy ticketsMaster of the horror-novel and author of the BFI Companion to Horror, Kim Newman, is joined by fantasy, vampire and [… read more]
Buy ticketsFrom a beautifully conceived film-poem and an imaginative exploration of the Lower Lea Valley to an uplifting documentary on a [… read more]
Buy ticketsHackney-based publisher Influx Press have invited three underground press icons, 3:AM, Galley Beggar and Lonely Coot to join them on [… read more]
Now a festival institution, Juke Box Fury is back, hosted by The World’s Coolest Librarian ™ Richard Boon (formerly manager [… read more]
Buy ticketsNeil McKenna is an award-winning journalist and writer who has written for the Independent, the Observer, the Guardian, the New [… read more]
Buy tickets“A really brilliant documentary and a very fine piece of film-making… something extraordinary.” – Mark Kermode To mark May’s first [… read more]
Buy ticketsBlogger, journalist, and digital copyright activist (not to mention co-editor of the hugely influential ‘Boing Boing’ blog), Doctorow is a [… read more]
Buy ticketsTwo of Britain’s most loved – and garrulous – award-winning broadcasters, the Two Dannies will bring the festival to a [… read more]
Buy ticketsDescribed by The New York Times as “London’s most theatrical salon” and by the Independent on Sunday as “London’s peerless [… read more]
Buy ticketsReturning for its third year, a laid-back night of great comedy, poetry and readings. Including Sony-Award nominee Miriam Elia, delightful [… read more]
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