Birmingham Lit Fest 2020 is live!
Hello!

Although we aren't able to bring you the usual Birmingham Literature Festival author events and discussions, we're delighted that we can offer you some of our usual programme online.

Below you'll find this year's offer of writing workshops, publishing industry masterclasses, and live-streamed events celebrating National Poetry Day.

As previously promised, we're also working on a podcast series. The Birmingham Lit Fest Presents... podcast will be available to subscribe to from 25 September, and the first episode will drop on Friday 2 October. It'll be available in all the usual places you get your podcasts.

More information very soon...
Birmingham Lit Fest 2020: online programme
Join contemporary poets Rosie Garland, Gregory Leadbetter and Maria Taylor for a free cabaret poetry performance. Presented in partnership with Nine Arches Press.

Play with language by translating a poem in Spanish as a group.

Look at words, discuss what they might mean, and how they mean different things to different people.

No knowledge of Spanish is necessary.

Sat 3 Oct, 3-5pm
Via Zoom
Tickets: £30

A two-session workshop to help you hone your application for funding to develop your writing work.

Mondays 5 Oct &12 Oct, 7-9pm
Via Zoom
Tickets: £30

Editor Mireille Harper (Square Peg, Vintage publishers) and literary agent Silé Edwards (Mushens Entertainment) join forces to give you an insight into the publishing industry, and help you break in as a writer.

Sat 10 Oct, 10am - 12noon
Via Zoom
Tickets: £30
online workshop

Join journalist and writer Lynn Enright for an intimate workshop on telling your own story: when you should, when you shouldn't, how and why.

Sat 10 Oct, 2-4pm
via Zoom
Tickets: £30
Poet Liz Berry performs at Verve Festival

Award-winning poet Liz Berry leads this workshop on poetry to lift the heart in these turbulent times.

Come, listen, share, rejoice, and feel refreshed.

Wed 14 Oct, 7-9pm
via Zoom
Tickets: £30

Short story writer and master of instant impact with words, Paul McVeigh, will lead this workshop to teach you how to immediately get your story noticed.

Sat 17 Oct, 2-4pm
via Zoom
Tickets: £30
Poetry Spa: in partnership with Nine Arches Press
Sat 17 October 10am - 2pm
Immerse yourself in poetry and take a few hours out to enjoy the words. The 4-hour session will include meditation and mindful reading from former Poet Laureate of Birmingham Roz Goddard plus discussion and writing with award winning poet Ian Humphreys.

via Zoom
Tickets: £22
Birmingham Literature Festival | a project of Writing West Midlands
Writing West Midlands is an Arts Council England NPO.

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