Join three leading writers from the Middle East as they debate the limits of freedom of expression in the region and beyond. Sinan Antoon is an Iraqi author currently living in New York, whose novels include The Corpse Washer and Ya Mariam. Choman Hardi is a Kurdish poet whose family were forced to flee Iraq several times. Samar Yazbek is a Syrian writer and… Continue reading Speaking Truth to Power event

Join Ola Animashawun, creative director of Euphoric Ink as he introduces a pioneering new method for play development, Open Heart Theatre. By empowering the audience to be honest about their engagement with what they are watching, it aims to create an environment of mutual support between audience and writer – based on an agreed understanding that every second… Continue reading Open Heart Theatre with Euphoric Ink

Join the Barbican in celebrating the achievements of the Barbican Junior Poets, made up of students from four Waltham Forest primary schools, as they showcase work created during its new poetry programme. Over the past six months, the Junior Poets have developed their skills in writing, performing poetry and spoken word while working with poets such as Toni Stuart, Kareem Parkins-Brown… Continue reading Barbican Junior Poets showcase

Eleven PEN-supported authors will be appearing at events across this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival, including  Cédric Villani, Yuri Herrera, Susana Moreira Marques, Etgar Keret and Alain Mabanckou. The festival is the largest public celebration of the written word in the world, bringing over 800 writers and thinkers from across the globe to meet every August.… Continue reading PEN authors at Edinburgh International Book Festival

The world’s biggest professional screenwriters event happens in London at Regent’s University for three days in October every year. For those serious about their screenwriting career, the festival is where the industry’s top professionals deliver an intense and immersive set of lectures, seminars, workshops, script pitches and networking opportunities. Whether you are an experienced screenwriter, or… Continue reading London Screenwriters Festival

Looking for Love is the latest documentary from award-winning filmmaker Menelik Shabazz. The director of films as diverse as Burning an Illusion to the extremely popular The Story of Lover’s Rock, decided to put love and romance in the Black British community centre stage in his latest production.

VAULT Festival has announced its return to London’s Leake Street tunnels for a fourth time in 2016 with a call for artist submissions across all disciplines. Curating London’s underground cultural scene since 2012, the six week festival in the labyrinthine tunnels under Waterloo brings together a carefully crafted programme of some of the brightest emerging… Continue reading VAULT Festival to return in 2016

The Bush Theatre’s twice-yearly open submission window for new scripts is now open until 11 September 2015. Submissions are open to playwrights from the UK and Republic of Ireland who do not currently have an agent and have a full length play that can be considered for production at the Bush Theatre. It is looking… Continue reading Bush Theatre call for unsolicited scripts

Following two hugely successful runs at the Tricycle Theatre, Lover’s Rock Monologues returns for a strictly limited time. With personal stories interspersed with the inimitable songs of the era, three of the scene’s luminaries – Janet Kay, Carroll Thompson and Victor Romero Evans – illustrate the inside story behind the trailblazing cultural phenomenon. Lover’s Rock… Continue reading Lover’s Rock Monologues returns

A philandering, womanising leading man. A string of scorned female lovers. A loose-lipped servant. Murder, revenge and finally retribution. The infamous story of Don Giovanni is re-imagined as you’ve never seen it before. Adapted to the South Africa of today, this unique production condenses Mozart’s mesmerising tragicomedy and combines it with storytelling in modern English… Continue reading Mozart’s Don Giovanni