BLF invites you to enjoy our expansive Writers and Thinkers strand. Explore the creative process with creative minds from around the world through panels, talks, readings, salons, lectures and so much more.
Speakers & Authors
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
Ben Aaronovitch and Jonathan Stroud In Conversation
How to Get Your Poetry Published
Inspired by JB Priestley’s English Journey
Remembering Manto: The Life and Work of a Fearless Writer
Stuart Maconie: The Full English
Dispatches from the Diaspora: Gary Younge In Conversation
Nibbies Salon: Bolu Babalola
Screening & Q&A: Thirty Years of Trainspotting with Irvine Welsh
Redefining Black Masculinity
Philosophy and Life
Write What You Know?
Colin Grant: I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be
Around the World in 80 Meet Cutes
J.B. Priestley’s Postscripts Revealed
Kit De Waal: Without Warning and Only Sometimes
Lyrical Mehfil with Michael Pedersen, Alycia Pirmohamed, Isabelle Baafi, Zeina Hashem Beck, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, and friends
Tolkien and Lewis: Friendship That Redefined Fantasy
Sudan and the Mahdist Legacy
Who Was J.R.R. Tolkien?
Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400
I Am, I Am, I Am: Sylvia Plath and Her Legacy
Loyal Enemy: The Life and Fictional Works of Marmaduke Pickthall
Beginning to End: An Introduction to Narrative Plot
Val McDermid: Queen of Crime
In Conversation: Linton Kwesi Johnson
Sebastian Faulks In Conversation
Shehan Karunatilaka In Conversation
Three Worlds: Avi Shlaim and Marc David Baer in Conversation
In Memoriam: Joan Lingard with Kersten England, Mariam Ansar, Jonathan Douglas
Poetry with a Punch
Landscape and Lyrics: The Poets of Yorkshire
Baby Does a Runner: Anita Rani in Conversation
Sir Michael Palin in Conversation with Anita Rani
Writing Yorkshire with Mariam Ansar, Linda Green, Jennie Godfrey, Liz Mistry
Tom Crewe and James Cahill in conversation
Caleb Azumah Nelson and Jessica George in conversation
The Artist and The Ethics
In Conversation: Vasay Chaudhry
Finding your Feet with the First Folio: Shakespearean Storytelling Workshop
Picasso: Outside The Frame
A Woman’s Life on the Road: Sara Wheeler and Christina Lamb In Conversation
Language is a Dialect with an Army and Navy
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated with Kamila Shamsie and Omar Robert Hamilton
Lemn Sissay
Sir Lenny Henry & Lemn Sissay in conversation
Free Word lecture with Rana Ayyub
Tiger Work: Ben Okri In Conversation
Polari Literary Salon
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