The London Library Lit Fest Events
Festival Pass
Your £25 Festival Pass includes one ticket to all main events from the online festival, meaning you won’t have to miss out on a single thing. Please note the events are now available as recordings.
Buying a Festival Pass is also the ideal way of supporting the Library and enabling us to run events like these.
Ticket holders are able to watch the events any time up until
13 June.
A Room of One's Own (performance)
Marking the 80th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s death, we premiere our dramatisation of her iconic 1928 feminist polemic, A Room of One’s Own, adapted by Linda Marshall-Griffiths, directed by Charlotte Westenra and filmed in the atmospheric spaces of The London Library.
Rebecca West: A Celebration (recording)
As English PEN and The London Library mark our anniversaries, we celebrate the incredible life of Rebecca West, author, journalist, literary critic, travel writer, fearless intellectual and one of the most energetic and fierce figures in our organisations’ histories.
Buried Treasure (recording)
Hannah Chukwu, editor of Bernardine Evaristo’s Black Britain: Writing Back series and Lennie Goodings, Chair of Virago Books, speak to writer and broadcaster Bidisha about the political nature of publishing and the importance of bringing forgotten works to new generations.
Sarah Waters: In Conversation (recording)
Sarah Waters talks to Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five, about the inspiration, motivation and discoveries which have informed her award-winning novels – all modern classics, beautifully and vividly told, which reveal the hidden histories of women’s lives and LGBTQ+ culture.
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales Workshop
Join graphic novelist Karrie Fransman and digital wizard Jonathan Plackett for a creative workshop of literary discovery, as they delve deep into The London Library’s collection, using their gender swapping computer algorithm to shed light on the stories we tell. Suitable for anyone aged 8-108.
Voyages of Discovery: Poetry Masterclass with Karen McCarthy Woolf
Opening the festival, acclaimed poet Karen McCarthy Woolf invites you to dive into other literatures and consider them in the creation of your own poetry. Using London Library resources as inspiration, she will talk about intertextual form and the ways we can enrich our own work through conversations with other published materials.
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