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Words are all they have

If you missed our preview in which we prized this word based alternative arts fest above ring tailed lemurs and cake, this will get you up to speed.

Last seen at Review during the Peckham Literary Festival, mysterious masked lit collective, Neither Am I, are building up to the launch of a new book. On Friday 26th March consider attending their free launch event and reading of “drum’n’prose, verse-core and frankly annoying atonal …

Not content to just throw free booze at you and call it a day, we’re back again with more free tickets to that lovely literate arts festival, the London Word Fest. This time we’re giving away two pairs of tickets to Sunday night’s showcase of …

Fiction for your Friday, courtesy our friends at Litro, London’s free monthly literary mag. In this, Litro’s debut on Londonist, we bring you an excerpt from Deborah Nash’s ‘Triumph’, published in the magazine’s recent ‘Revolutions’ issue. Although of a different era, the setting of Nash’s …

A duchess, a PM’s wife and a queen of the bestsellers all make an appearance in this week’s events around town. And you thought literary London would just go quietly into hibernation until after the holidays… Wednesday: Medical London historian Richard Barnett and editor Mike …

A blog, humbly devoted to all things London, Londonist is – could you have guessed? Meet the fib – no, not the kind you told at uni when submitting yet another late essay – but the poetic kind: a 6-line verse reminiscent, in its constriction …

After a momentary pause, literary London returns to form this week, with a couple of ace festivals headed our way. Wednesday: There are no fewer than three events on our radar for this evening: Chapman brother Jake discusses his debut novel, The Marriage of Reason …

There’s a rather eerie silence over literary London this week, but with the US election, Bonfire Night and the Lord Mayor’s Show all happening in rapid succession over the next 5 days, we suppose that this is one of those (rare?) occasions when life is …