Events

Sat 8th July / Leila Aboulela for Africa Writes - Exeter Festival

Sat 8th July / Leila Aboulela for Africa Writes...

Saturday Night's Festival Headliner - Leila Aboulela  Multi award-winning author Leila Aboulela will be in conversation with writer Billy Kahora about River Spirit, her writing craft and engaging with Sudan's...

Sat 8th July / Leila Aboulela for Africa Writes...

Saturday Night's Festival Headliner - Leila Aboulela  Multi award-winning author Leila Aboulela will be in conversation with writer Billy Kahora about River Spirit, her writing craft and engaging with Sudan's...

7-9 July / Africa Writes - Exeter Festival

7-9 July / Africa Writes - Exeter Festival

Africa Writes returns from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th July 2023! Events will be hosted in collaboration with us, and creative hub Roots Resistance. The festival celebrates contemporary literature from Africa and...

7-9 July / Africa Writes - Exeter Festival

Africa Writes returns from Friday 7th to Sunday 9th July 2023! Events will be hosted in collaboration with us, and creative hub Roots Resistance. The festival celebrates contemporary literature from Africa and...

Fri 7 July | A Friend’s Kitchen: with Al Saddiq al-Raddi, Bryar Bajalan and David Shook

Fri 7 July | A Friend’s Kitchen: with Al Saddiq...

  Join us to hear from Al-Raddi at the opening event of Africa Writes - Exeter. One of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today, Al-Raddi will read from his...

Fri 7 July | A Friend’s Kitchen: with Al Saddiq...

  Join us to hear from Al-Raddi at the opening event of Africa Writes - Exeter. One of the leading African poets writing in Arabic today, Al-Raddi will read from his...

Wed 21 June / Poetry with Jenny Mitchell

Wed 21 June / Poetry with Jenny Mitchell

Jenny Mitchell is an award-winning poet and workshop facilitator. Her first collection was joint winner of the Geoff Stephens Poetry Prize, and her second collection, Map of a Plantation, is winner...

Wed 21 June / Poetry with Jenny Mitchell

Jenny Mitchell is an award-winning poet and workshop facilitator. Her first collection was joint winner of the Geoff Stephens Poetry Prize, and her second collection, Map of a Plantation, is winner...

Fri 16 June| Transient Lives: In Conversation with Damilola Lemomu

Fri 16 June| Transient Lives: In Conversation w...

Join Eleanor Lionel and Damilola Lemomu- the artist behind the award nominated 'Promised Land'- as we delve into the issues raised in the work. Transient Lives is a project consisting...

Fri 16 June| Transient Lives: In Conversation w...

Join Eleanor Lionel and Damilola Lemomu- the artist behind the award nominated 'Promised Land'- as we delve into the issues raised in the work. Transient Lives is a project consisting...

Thurs 25 May / Emma Warren and Salena Godden / Performance, book launch and talk

Thurs 25 May / Emma Warren and Salena Godden / ...

Join us for a Sensational spring event with Bookbag favourites Emma Warren and Salena Godden. To celebrate Emma's new book Dance Your Way Home and Salena's republished Pessimism is for...

Thurs 25 May / Emma Warren and Salena Godden / ...

Join us for a Sensational spring event with Bookbag favourites Emma Warren and Salena Godden. To celebrate Emma's new book Dance Your Way Home and Salena's republished Pessimism is for...