Thursday 8 October 2020

Birmingham Literature Festival Week 2, 8-17 October 2020

The Festival starts today, all the information you need below:

 

 

Birmingham Lit Fest Presents.... Podcast

 

 

Episode 2 of the Birmingham Lit Fest Presents... podcast is live!

 

Join Liz Berry talking to newly-published poets Rupinder Kaur and Romalyn Ante about language, being the representation you can't see, and homesickness.

 

Available wherever you get your podcasts.

 

Episodes released every Thursday until Christmas.

 

 

 

Live-streamed author events

in partnership with Durham Book Festival

 

 

Author talks: Caleb Femi, Laura Bates, Alastair Campbell and Layla F Saad

We've teamed up with Durham Book Festival to deliver four unique events.

 

Live stream discussions with Caleb Femi, Layla F Saad, Laura Bates and Alistair Campbell into your home and be part of the bigger conversation.

 

Free events, but booking is required.

 

 

 

Join us on Twitter: daily poetry readings

 

 

Staying Human: Poetry Readings

Every day of October we will be releasing a poem from the new Bloodaxe Books anthology Staying Human.

 

The collection is the latest in the Staying Alive series of world poetry anthologies, delivers 'real poems for unreal times.' We have hand picked a selection for you and asked readers to give their voice to the pieces.

 

Follow us on Twitter for your daily dose of poetry from writers across the world.

 

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There's more...

 

·     A Poetry Spa (in partnership with Nine Arches Press) on Saturday 17 October

·     Online workshops on How Publishing Works

·     An online performance from the Writing West Midlands Room 204 writers-in-development

·     Book recommendations and a festival book list

 

 

 

Birmingham Literature Festival | a project of Writing West Midlands

Writing West Midlands is an Arts Council England NPO.

 


 

Writing West Midlands | Studio 130, Zellig, Gibb Street, Birmingham, B9 4AT United Kingdom



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