Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Andi Oliver hosts this very special Gala Night in which we celebrate voices of women over 40, who represent more […]

Mosey on down to the Stoke Newington Literary Festival for a rootin’-tootin’ hoedown disco and dance your blues away. Stomp […]

since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations—dubbed “Dickensland”—that famously […]

Our hugely popular debuts event hosted by literary critic Suzi Feay has introduced authors including Sarah Perry (The Essex Serpent), […]

Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Monopoly? And how can pi help […]

Scratch Books is the home of the perfect short story and is named after the sensation you get after you’ve […]

Comedy is a game that all humans play, with big social prizes if you win, but egg on your face […]

Our names are so mundane that we barely notice them. Yet each contains countless stories of tradition and belonging – […]

Guardian columnist Andy, author of the critically acclaimed Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, tells the […]

It’s not often that one, let alone two wonderful novels arrive with Hackney as their starting point. Katherine Quarmby’s The […]

Teddy Boys is the story of Britain’s first youth counterculture, throwing a fascinating light on a British society that was […]

Why do we dance together? What does dancing tell us about ourselves, individually and collectively? Whether at home, in ’80s […]

Back at the second Stokey Litfest in 2011, in a tiny room above a pub, drinks writer and social historian […]

Award-winning ad copywriter and Roxy Music super-fan Jocelyn took photos of the band from their heyday in 1973 right up […]

Andrew – former editor of Select and Q magazines and one the brains behind Remainiacs and The Bunker podcasts – […]

When Natasha (Living Dolls, New Feminism) began to search back through her mother’s history, she began to understand how her […]

70s pulp fiction book covers vs the modern covers of the books found in every good bookshop – who wins? […]

Stoke Newington-raised Paloma has had an extraordinary career. Critically acclaimed and award-winning musician, star of TV and film and now […]

The music of Arthur Russell defies classification. Across a twenty-year career he created a body of work which ranged from […]

Evidence based entertainment doesn’t come better than this: the fabulous Nerd Nite is back for another StokeyLitFest special. There can’t […]

Henry Morris, AKA The Secret Tory, is the satirist who successfully spent four years pretending to be a Tory MP. […]