Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Now in its third year, Hackney Shorts film festival showcases the work of established and emerging filmmakers capturing the rapid [… read more]

Access to all events. Exchange your ticket for a wristband at the Box Office and make yourself Access All Areas [… read more]

Spend an evening with Reel Rebels, a local community radio station based in Stoke Newington. Their festival line up starts [… read more]

EVENT UPDATE: This special gala night shines a thoughtful and laconic light on the state of the nation. On the [… read more]

Described as the ‘Poet Laureate of Twitter’ and ‘part John Cooper-Clarke, part Frank Sidebottom’, Brian Bilston is a poet clouded [… read more]

Actor Jessica Martin came of age in the jazz clubs of Soho. Obsessed with Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand as [… read more]

Unearthing the story of ‘Body 115’, poet Jan Noble presents a first draft reading of a new monologue commissioned by [… read more]

From highbrow to no-brow, from Harry Potter to Humbert Humbert, test your bookish knowledge and ingenuity at the festival’s own [… read more]

Every year we invite a very special guest along to meet our younger readers at Stoke Newington Library. This year [… read more]

Dragons! Magic! Storytelling! And one very worried author… Louie Stowell needs YOUR HELP. Her friend, the librarian (psst, WIZARD) has [… read more]

Like much of London, Dalston’s rich cultural and social history has, so far, shifted and adapted in the face of [… read more]

After reading that David Cameron linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the “traditional submissiveness” of women, Mariam Khan felt [… read more]

Little Bear’s Mum is the strongest in the world, always helping everyone (especially helping carry Little Bear’s treasures). But sometimes [… read more]

Forget everything you thought you knew about Eastern European food! Two of today’s most exciting food writers and chefs, Olia [… read more]

Musician, composer, writer and sound curator David Toop talks to The Wire’s Emily Bick about his fascinating new memoir Flutter [… read more]

Open Pen is a free, East London-based fiction magazine and publisher of pocket paperbacks: The Open Pen Novelettes. They insist [… read more]

Meet local award winning author, Patrice Lawrence, and Eve, a Tudor girl who sets out on a dangerous journey to [… read more]

We are taught that motherhood is something we should aspire to, and this fantasy can dominate the whole of our [… read more]

The North Hackney Welcome Project will rehome a family from Syria this summer and this event looks at the refugee [… read more]

In a 1970s commuter town, Tracey Thorn’s teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. She was a typical [… read more]

Have a very noisy storytime and drawing session with author and illustrator Nadia Shireen. You’ll meet a whole host of [… read more]

You’ve probably got a bottle (or two) stashed in your cupboard, but chances are you’re not getting the most out [… read more]

What makes good meat? Which cuts of meat work best for a slow-cooked stew or a speedy stir-fry? How do [… read more]

Life-long anti-racists accused of antisemitism, life-long Jew haters declaring their love of Israel…antisemitism has become selective. And its not just [… read more]

Ade is the new kid on Parsons Road, and it’s not easy to make friends when you look different from [… read more]

Richard is one of our most celebrated music writers and The Lark Ascending explores how Britain’s history and identity has [… read more]

Inspired by her former days as the lead singer of Seattle-based band Schoolyard Heroes, Ryann Donnelly explores and analyses the [… read more]

Three extraordinary women with their own unique yet complementary experiences of addiction, loss and grief come together to share their [… read more]

Novelist and broadcaster Emma Woolf (England’s Lane), great-niece of Virginia Woolf joins Emma Darwin (This is Not a Book About [… read more]

With the publication of How to Eat in 1998, Nigella Lawson introduced us to her unique style of creative, delicious [… read more]

2019 is the 70th anniversary of George Orwell’s 1984. The Ministry of Truth uncovers the cultural influence of 1984, from [… read more]

Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris are two of Britain’s busiest comedy writers (Philomena Cunk, Charlie Brooker’s Wipe, Mitchell & Webb, [… read more]

In Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock, writer and critic Amy Raphael interviewed twelve female musicians, from Courtney Love [… read more]

Niki Segnit, author of best-selling The Flavour Thesaurus, talks to Sheila Dillon, presenter of Radio 4’s The Food Programme, about [… read more]

Republican or royalist, there’s no denying that the Queen’s outifts have made key style – and even political – statements [… read more]

Living in London is tough when you’re young, broke, and don’t know what you’re doing. Joel Golby, a VICE journalist [… read more]

Jenny and Burton are two novelists stuck within an event they no longer control. BookTalkBookTalkBook begins as a parody of [… read more]

Ambit Magazine presents a celebration of 60 years of continuous publication of poetry, art and prose. Ambit strives to feature [… read more]

Nicholas Lezard will be reading from It Gets Worse, the forthcoming selection of his “Down and Out” columns for the [… read more]

Alan Johnson is a political heavyweight who’s seen seismic shifts in the Labour party first in his time as trade [… read more]

Given the ultimate nod by the New York Times as ‘London’s most theatrical salon’ and by The Independent on Sunday [… read more]

All men must die… and so must all quizzes. As the greatest fantasy series of all time draws to a [… read more]

Evidence-based entertainment doesn’t get better than this! Join in on the fun, fact-filled night with Lara Maiklem (Mudlarking: Lost and [… read more]

Night-time shenanigans as two best-selling crime-writing couples (Catherine Steadman & Ross Armstrong and Mel McGrath & Simon Booker) reveal all [… read more]