storytelling

YARN Fest, the acclaimed East London storytelling festival, is back for a second year of literary madness and interactive fun.

YARNfest is five-day celebration of storytelling, coming soon to film, theatre, literature and music venues across London.

A night of comedy and storytelling so funny we almost had a major back spasm, from the Tall Tales team of writers, actors, musicians and bloggers.

The week ahead in literary London Wednesday: Jean Hannah Edelstein, Ben Johncock, Sabrina Mahfouz and Elizabeth Jenner are getting tooled up in preparation for another Literary Death Match (8pm, £7 / £5). Laura Dockrill, Rick Edwards and Salena Godden hand out the marks, while Todd …

We’re rather excited about the Peckham Literary Festival – it’s packing some absolute corkers into a little less than a fortnight and everything’s free. We’re already looking up a suitable tome to take along to the Firestation Book Swap, which usually happens in Windsor but …

Peckham’s silliest yellow cornershop is tonight hosting a FREE storytelling/sharing event, featuring the lovely Sally Pomme Clayton. She will be spinning tales of Spring drawn from ancient Mesopotamian legends…and then asking the audience to share their favourite stories/anecdotes/riddles. This is followed tomorrow night with a …

The London Word Festival drew to a close this week with the Art of Storytelling at St Leonard’s Church. Yet another story-filled sell out success, the show opened with a surprise 10 minute set from Daniel Kitson. Matthew Robins shared a science-fiction romantic shadow-opera and …

The excellent London Word Festival starts on Sunday, and they’re still adding stuff to the already great line-up. Darren Hayman and Jo Neary will both be performance-publishing a brand new poster at Keep Printing and Carry On, physicist/singer/songwriter Martin Austwick has been added to the …

If you’ve raced through all of the top London books and need something to keep you occupied until the London Word Festival, you might want to check out YARNFest, an exciting new storytelling festival happening at the end of February. Taking place at The Book …

The London Word Festival is back, baby! Secure on the scene for the next three years, you really should get out and enjoy this brilliantly eclectic festival that’s about so much more than words. Running 7th March to 1st April in various venues across East …