Literary Events in London

The following organisations and venues organise literary events around black writing all year long:

African Writers evening: Writers from the African diaspora and beyond read excerpts from their books every other month.

Book Slam: Their title of London’s best literary night club is totally deserved. The events mix readings, spoken word, live music and DJ; and have featured authors such as Zadie Smith, Ekow Eshun, Andrea Levy, Ben Okri or Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Southbank Centre: Their Literature and Spoken Word events line-up is always interesting, with artists such as Lemn Sissay, Nick Makoha Charlie Dark often gracing the stage.

Spoken Word Events in London

For info on spoken word events in London, please refer to these organisations and venues:

Apples and Snakes: Promote poets and spoken word events in London in the UK. This should be your first port of call if you are a poet.

The Poetry Society: Promote poetry and hold poetry events and readings almost every night in their Covent Garden cafe.

Farrago Poetry: London’s longest-running slam poetry promoters.

ONiT: Focused on raising the profile of spoken word and performance poetry. ONiT PR represents artists such as LeeN, Beyonder and OneNess Sankara. Get on their mailing list to know when these poets are performing.

 

Check out our interviews with two of Londonn’s most notable poets:

Inua Ellams

Dean Atta

 

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