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Stoke Newington Literary Festival

2023 programme

  • Friday, 2nd June
  • Gala Night: Memoir Special. £8
    Time – 19:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • The pandemic saw most of us in a communally self-reflective mood. With fewer distractions, a record number of people started […]

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  • Drumming with Dead Can Dance: Peter Ulrich & Juliet Jacques. £6
    Time – 19:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House
  • Peter Ulrich thinks he got the ultimate fan trip―to play, record, and tour with his favourite band, Dead Can Dance. […]

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  • Friday Night Disco. free
    Time – 21.30, Venue – The Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Join us after the Stoke Newington Literary Festival Gala for a boogie under the disco ball.

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  • Saturday, 3rd June
  • KIDS: Louie Stowell: Loki. £5
    Time – 10:30am, Venue – Grasmere School
  • Meet best-selling, award-winning local author Louie for a session packed full of humour and cool facts. Are you a fan […]

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  • KIDS: Family Disco. £4
    Time – 11:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Last year’s family disco was so ridiculously popular that we are doing it again! Our volunteers, local businesses and authors […]

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  • Promoting Writing at a Grassroots Level, with Indie Novella. free
    Time – 12:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs
  • Stoke Newington-based publisher, Indie Novella, has spent the last year working with different organisations and individuals from the Arts Council […]

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  • KIDS: Isaac Hamilton-McKenzie: Future Hero. £3
    Time – 12:30, Venue – Grasmere School
  • In September, StokeyLitFest ran workshops with Grasmere Primary School to give every child the opportunity to be part of a […]

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  • History of Stokey: Bidding on the Past. SOLD OUT
    Time – 13:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Local historian Amir Dotan (www.stokenewingtonhistory.com) has uncovered more about Stoke Newington than most people could dream of. He explores its […]

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  • Rising Stars. free
    Time – 13:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Hall
  • Suzi Feay, literary critic at the FT, has gathered together some of the most exciting debut novelists to share their […]

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  • Reverse Engineering: Short Stories. SOLD OUT
    Time – 14:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs
  • The short story is having a renaissance. How do you write a perfect short story? How much is unconscious inspiration? […]

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  • Luke Turner: Men at War. £5
    Time – 14:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Upstairs
  • Men At War is a blend of history, biography and memoir about masculinity, sexuality, how we remember the war and […]

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  • KIDS: SF Said: Tyger. £5
    Time – 14:30, Venue – Grasmere School
  • In a strange, alternate world where the British Empire never ended, a young boy uncovers something incredible in a rubbish […]

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  • Gary Younge: Dispatches from the Diaspora. SOLD OUT
    Time – 15:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Reflecting on three decades of his remarkable career as a journalist, Dispatches from the Diaspora is a powerful collection of […]

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  • Richard Milward & Joe Dunthorne. £5
    Time – 15:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Hall
  • Bringing Richard & Joe together is a dream come true – both are exhilarating writers at the top of their […]

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  • Beer & Cheese: The Perfect Pairing. SOLD OUT
    Time – 16:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Wine and cheese? Jog on. Sure, each is very fine in its own right. But if you’re looking for the […]

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  • And Other Stories. SOLD OUT
    Time – 16:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs
  • The Sheffield-based publisher And Other Stories has become a cult phenomenon since it was launched in 2010, publishing mainly contemporary […]

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  • Rob Delaney. SOLD OUT
    Time – 17:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Comedian, actor and co-creator of the internationally-acclaimed Catastrophe, Rob joins us to talk about his deeply moving memoir A Heart […]

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  • Housing Projects: Kieran Yates & Charmain Bynoe. free
    Time – 17:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Hall
  • Kieran Yates’s All the Houses I’ve Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System That Fails Us is an unflinching […]

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  • Daniel Rachel: The Beatles Lost Album. SOLD OUT
    Time – 18:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • The end of the Beatles wasn’t inevitable. It came through miscommunication, misunderstandings and missed opportunities to reconcile. But what if […]

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  • Mudlark’d. SOLD OUT
    Time – 18:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Upstairs
  • Combining insights from 200 eclectic objects discovered on the Thames foreshore, meticulous historical research and contextual illustrations, Mudlark’d uncovers the […]

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  • James Brown & Irvine Welsh: DRUGS WORDS CHAOS MUSIC. SOLD OUT
    Time – 19:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Between 1994 and 1997, loaded magazine became the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. What MTV had been to […]

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  • Nerd Nite. £7
    Time – 20:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Welcome to Nerd Nite London, StokeyLitFest edition, where it’s hip to be square. Compère Louise Inman hosts a series of […]

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  • Sunday, 4th June
  • Frankenstein Walking Book Club. £8
    Time – 10:00am, Venue – Meet at The Mildmay Club
  • Join writer Emily Rhodes for a walk and talk around Clissold Park discussing the classic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, […]

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  • KIDS: The Handbook of Forgotten Skills. £3
    Time – 11:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • We’re so much more aware that we can’t just buy and throw away stuff anymore. We’re thankfully back in an […]

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  • KIDS: Stories on the Green. free
    Time – 12:00, Venue – Newington Green
  • For Sunday lunch we’re sharing stories on Newington Green. From 12pm graphic novelist Francisco de la Mora will share Frida […]

  • The Book…er? Literary Quiz. £3
    Time – 13:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Room
  • Andrew Harrison (Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker podcast host) returns with his fiendishly difficult literary-ish quiz and although […]

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  • Niki Segnit: Flavour Thesaurus. SOLD OUT
    Time – 13:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • With fans including Nigella Lawson, Yotam Ottolenghi, Heston Blumenthal and Rukmini Iyer, you know Niki was onto something with her […]

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  • Sarah Hart: Once Upon a Prime. £5
    Time – 14:30, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Hall
  • We often think of mathematics and literature as polar opposites. But what if, instead, they were fundamentally linked? In this […]

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  • Miki Berenyi: How Music Saved Me From Success. SOLD OUT
    Time – 15:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Lush were part of the London gig scene during one of the most vibrant and creative periods in UK music. […]

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  • Clubs: It’s a Class Thing. £6
    Time – 16:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • Would you want to join a club that would have you for a member? The simple idea of like-minded people […]

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  • Everyone’s Invited: Soma Sara & Jamie Klingler. £5
    Time – 16:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Hall
  • In June 2020, Soma Sara founded Everyone’s Invited, an anti-rape movement which allows survivors of rape culture to share their […]

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  • Juke Box Fury. £6
    Time – 17:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Buzzcocks’ former manager, inventor of the indie music scene and former World’s Coolest Librarian (™), Richard Boon hosts another panel […]

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  • White Riot: Joe Thomas & Amen Alonge. £5
    Time – 18:00, Venue – Newington Green Meeting House Main Hall
  • Joe’s stunning true-crime thriller starts in 1978 when The National Front is gaining ground in Hackney. Anti-fascist groups launch the […]

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  • Robin Ince & Nick Revell. £10
    Time – 19:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Main Hall
  • A first half of Nick Revell’s brilliantly surreal story-telling would be enough to end the festival on a high note, […]

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  • Bold Queer Poetry Soirée. £8
    Time – 19:00, Venue – Mildmay Club Upstairs Room
  • Inkandescent serves up sensational spoken word with a side of music. Host Nathan Evans is joined by UK Poetry Slam […]

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