We're making the best of the ongoing situation, and the ever-changing restrictions and guidelines, and moving the Birmingham Literature Festival online this autumn.
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This autumn will be different - and, hopefully, we'll be back in 2021 for live events in person. We hope you enjoy this year's festival, which you can enjoy and take part in from the comfort of your home.
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We're running a series of our ever-popular 2-hour writing workshops online throughout October, on subjects as varied as Poetry for Joy and Happiness to How Publishing Works and Poetry in Translation.
Online Writing Workshops
In partnership with Durham Book Festival and Nine Arches Press we're hosting four live-streamed online events between October 8th and October 17th, with speakers including Alistair Campbell, Layla F Saad, and Laura Bates.
Live Streamed Online Events
We've commissioned and curated a podcasts series talking to some of the most interesting writers working today.
The podcast feed will be available from 28 September, with the first episode published on Friday 2 October, and weekly thereafter.
Birmingham Lit Fest Presents...
Podcast
Throughout October 2020, we're celebrating the new poetry anthology from Bloodaxe publishers, Staying Human, with a reading from a specially-curated selection of poems released on SoundCloud every day of the month.
Staying Human anthology: readings