Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Gala Evening featuring Mark Kermode and an Arts Emergency showcase, with Josie Long and friends

4 leading female crime writers talk about why they’re inspired to write about the darker side of life.

In the mid-1950s Ian Nairn burst into the pages of the architectural press, broadsheets and TV screens with his incandescent [… read more]

3AM, Galley Beggars & Influx Press are some of the most exciting small, independent presses in London. Between them, they bring together some of the most exciting writers in the capital.

A smorgasbord of poetry, spoken word and comedy curated by the Morning Star

After a sold-out event at last year’s festival, Reads Like a Seven returns to Stoke Newington with another showcase of [… read more]

In this delightfully witty memoir of family life and a troubled 1980s adolescence, Times pop critic Will Hodgkinson tells the [… read more]

Join Tim Bradford, author of A London Country Diary, as he takes a short journey around Clissold Park with a [… read more]

Have you ever found it difficult to find someone like you in a book? Do you think there aren’t any [… read more]

For all aspiring kids’ and YA authors – a selection of experienced published authors dispense advice, tips and secrets about how to become a best-selling writer

Exercise your brain and stretch your writing skills with Helen Gordon and Briony Bax Suitable for all writers, poets and [… read more]

Mary Wollstonecraft ‘invented’ feminism on Newington Green and we often wonder how appalled or upset she’d be by the need [… read more]

Author of The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig, Emer Stamp, shows children how to draw the world of Pig’s [… read more]

Mathematics doesn’t need to be daunting or difficult, as proven by bestselling author on the subject, Alex Bellos. In his [… read more]

A talk about typography: how it transforms the meanings of words and influences our choices. This is explored through the [… read more]

Brilliant family event looking at the science behind everyone’s favourite sci-fi saga.

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, Milne & Jones discuss the legacy of The Enemy Within

Ellen Feldman (Scottsboro, The Unwitting) and Jessie Burton (The Miniaturist) uncover their fascinating historical research and their inspirational books.

A frank discussion panel featuring Briony Bax, Editor of Ambit Magazine, Gary Budden, Co-founder of Influx Press and Helen Gordon, [… read more]

Come along to the Library and meet Mog, the very forgetful cat who has been the centre of so many [… read more]

The author of ‘The Pig that Wants to be Eaten and 99 other thought experiments’ and co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Philosophers’ Magazine asks some fascinating questions about the food we eat and our ethical stance on it.

Abney Park is London. The story of Abney’s dead is the story of London. Using some of the characters buried [… read more]

Catch Andrew Mcdonald’s latest performance piece ‘An introduction to Touching Paintings’, which explores relationships to the painted image. Andrew says [… read more]

London as a character in a graphic novel explored by two of the most respected artists in the genre

Come along to the Library and meet Mog, the very forgetful cat who has been the centre of so many [… read more]

Gareth (Marshland) and John (The Other London) talk about alternative London writing, myths and monsters.

How do you summarise Andy Kershaw? He was a Radio One DJ for fifteen years (despite never wanting to be [… read more]

Georgian London explored by the UK’s leading expert on all things fine and dandy.

A celebration of music and literature as diverse as Taverner, Shakespeare and The Beatles, by Stoke Newington’s own excellent community [… read more]

Cider – once the equivalent of champagne, more recently the choice of the park bench alfresco drinker – has enjoyed [… read more]

You don’t get more satirical or hilarious than these two gurus of the ‘cartoon’.

Peter Swaab explores how Edward Lear’s travel journals and nonsense poetry were two sides of the same coin, imagining faraway [… read more]

Former Everything But The Girl founder member Ben discusses his brilliant family memoir Romany & Tom

From Chocolat to her stunning fantasy debut, Gospel of Loki.

In Walk the Lines, Mark Mason described his odyssey over several hundred miles as he walked the entire length of [… read more]

A talk about typography: how it transforms the meanings of words and influences our choices. This is explored through the [… read more]

Sea-Witches is a live exquisite corpse, in which Lucy Ayrton and Claire Trévien collaborate to blur the lines between page [… read more]

Despite the fact that 33% of married women worked by 1957, the image of the 1950s housewife, known best for [… read more]

Stout chaps avoiding flighty verse with poetry, puns and pints.

Back in 2002, Jamaican-born Linton Kwesi Johnson became both the second living poet and the only black poet to be [… read more]

Award-winning LGBT literary salon featuring a selection of stunning writers, spoken word artists and poets.

Why does Annie Lennox describe songwriting as “playing with sand”? Which Romantic poet inspired Lily Allen to write LDN? Why [… read more]

A smorgasbord of poetry, spoken word and comedy curated by the Morning Star

Andy wrote a book called ‘Read Y’self Fitter’. Stewart Lee asks him why.

A wholly disrespectful and anarchic panel-show quiz, Brideshead ReQuizeted consists of lots of very silly questions about very serious books. [… read more]

To celebrate all that is amazing about life, the universe and everything, Literary Death Match is back at the Stoke [… read more]