The London Library Lit Fest Events
Festival Pass
Your £25 Festival Pass includes one ticket to all main events from the online festival, meaning you won’t have to miss out on a single thing. Please note the events are now available as recordings.
Buying a Festival Pass is also the ideal way of supporting the Library and enabling us to run events like these.
Ticket holders are able to watch the events any time up until
13 June.
Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (recording)
Celebrating 20 years of the pioneering poetry collective, Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, we close out the festival with a party of poetry featuring Inua Ellams, Malika Booker, Kayo Chingonyi, Zakia Carpenter-Hall, Arji Manuelpillai, Charlotte Ansell, hosted by MPK Director Jill Abram.
A Theatre for Dreamers with Polly Samson (recording)
Novelist Polly Samson speaks to Edward Docx about her spellbinding new novel set amongst the artists, writers and musicians of 1960s Hydra. Alongside music and readings, they discuss utopian dreams and the explosive potential of artistic communities.
Friends in Times of Trouble with Simon Schama (recording)
Historian Simon Schama, discusses some of the most famous and fascinating friendships to have been forged amongst writers throughout history: from Boccaccio and Petrarch to Montaigne and La Boétie and plenty others since.
Global Conversations: Myth and Discovery (recording)
We bring Monique Roffey (UK) and C Pam Zhang (USA) together across two continents to discuss the common themes of myth, discovery and the lure and lore of the frontier. In partnership with Brighton Festival.
The London Library Emerging Writers Showcase (recording)
We showcase the exceptional talent to come out of the inaugural London Library Emerging Writers Programme with members of the cohort reading from the anthology of the work they produced throughout their year with the Library.
A Sense of Place: Writing Masterclass with Travis Elborough
On the final day of the festival, Travis Elborough, the award-winning author of Wish You Were Here: England on Sea, A Walk in the Park and Atlas of Vanishing Places, leads this interactive masterclass that will help you to get creative when writing about place. Whether you have a novel, memoir, biography, travel or nature writing project in mind, you’ll discover how to effectively conjure place and convey it to the page.
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