Past Events
An online literary series of reading and discussion, showcasing Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies.
Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, will be speaking at the Birmingham Literature Festival.
Join Hajar Press, Sophie Chauhan & Amardeep Singh Dhillon to celebrate the publication of Curious Affinities.
An online evening of poetry, raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians.
Join Hajar Press, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan & Oluwatosin Daniju to celebrate the publication of Seeing for Ourselves.
Join Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan at the Centre of the Earth for a magical woodland dinner with poets and conservationists as part of the Retrofit Reimagined season.
Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, will be speaking at the Palestine Writes festival.
Housmans Queer Book Club reads a wide range of LGBTQ fiction and nonfiction. This month, we’ll be reading You Must Believe in Spring by Mohamed Tonsy.
A workshop on Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass with IWEC Academy and Transit Bookstore in Jakarta, inviting you to reconnect with your inner child through memoir.
A day-long workshop exploring the past and present of queer and feminist print cultures, with keynotes from Julie Enszer and Nat Raha.
Join Hajar Press, Waithera Sebatindira & Micha Frazer-Carroll at Reference Point to celebrate the publication of Through an Addict’s Looking-Glass.
Join Lola Olufemi and Yara Rodrigues Fowler in thinking about the role of literature and story-telling in the struggle for liberation.
A panel discussion at Foyles with writers whose recent work explores the politics of emotion and care, hosted by Shon Faye.
With Cradle Community, Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha, in support of Hackney Migrant Centre.
A celebration of Haymarket Books’ republication of Black Women Writers at Work, edited by Claudia Tate.
Join three inspiring Arab women, Heba Hayek, Nora Parr and Selma Dabbagh, for a conversation about Palestinian literature.
Celebrate a decade of Critical Muslim, featuring a writers studio on hope in literature with Farhaana Arefin of Hajar Press.
Join Tilted Axis Press for a special Lunar New Year celebration with Yan Ge and Pear Nuallak, moderated by Kwan Ann Tan.
Celebrate the launch of Mohamed Tonsy’s debut novel, You Must Believe in Spring, at the Topping bookshop in Edinburgh.
Join Lighthouse for a night of heart-full, rebellious storytelling to celebrate the launch of Mohamed Tonsy’s debut novel, You Must Believe in Spring.
Join Hajar Press, Pear Nuallak & June Bellebono at Reference Point to celebrate the publication of Pearls from Their Mouth.
Nesrine Malik chairs a discussion with Lola Olufemi about her book Experiments in Imagining Otherwise at Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Join Lola Olufemi for an open discussion about Aftermath by Preti Taneja and Tuesday or September or The End by Hannah Black.
The second event in a two-part series by Hajar Press on the theme of childhood and transformative politics.
The first event in a two-part series by Hajar Press on the theme of childhood and transformative politics.
Join No More Exclusions, Haymarket Books and Hajar Press for a series of conversations on abolitionist education.
Join Lola Olufemi and Titilayo Farukuoye in a live-streamed conversation about imagination as a strategy for change.
Join Stella Dadzie, Suzanne Scafe and Cradle Collective to hear about writing for liberation at the Brighton Book Festival.
Join Cradle to explore how we build a world without prisons, share skills in abolitionist practices, and connect with other abolitionists.
A conversation about two feminist texts exploring care, intimacy and politics.
Celebrating the launch of Zena Agha’s new poetry collection, Objects from April and May, join the author in conversation with Sarah Lasoye.
Join Lola Olufemi in conversation with New Statesman assistant editor Lola Seaton at the Cambridge Literary Festival.
An in-person reading group with Lola Olufemi about imaginative-revolutionary potential, temporality and cultural production.
Head over to bookhaus for an invigorating conversation with Lola Olufemi and bookseller Nayya Raza about Experiments in Imagining Otherwise.
A virtual reading group by Books Against Borders to discuss Brick by Brick and abolition more broadly.
An online presentation by Lola Olufemi about the imagination in UK black cultural production and its relationship with political organising and temporality.
Join Yara Hawari in conversation with Tareq Baconi for the launch of The Stone House, a haunting tale of trauma and survival under Israeli occupation.
At the third meeting of the Mosaic Rooms Palestine Book Club, we’ll be joined by author Yara Hawari to read and discuss her new novella, The Stone House.
An online event hosted by Cradle Community to discuss your thoughts on Brick by Brick.
Join author Heba Hayek and Ghaith Hilal Nassar at SOAS University of London to mark six months since the publication of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies.
The second meeting of the Mosaic Rooms Palestine Book Club will be led by Heba Hayek, who will be reading and discussing Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies.
An online conversation with Lola Olufemi and Hajar Press, hosted by the University of Brighton’s Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender (CTSG).
Abolitionist Futures’ Southwest Reading Club are proud to host a conversation with Cradle Community about their new book, Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons.
Join Cradle Community at Halkevi Community Centre to celebrate the publication of Brick by Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons.
Join author Lola Olufemi and Abeera Khan in conversation at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, navigating the space between what is and what could be.
Cradle Community speak about abolition and their new book, Brick by Brick, in a panel discussion for Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair.
An online panel discussion chaired by Kavita Bhanot, featuring Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Azeezat Johnson and Zarina Muhammad.
Join Hajar Press, Lola Olufemi & Imani Robinson at the Feminist Library to celebrate the publication of Experiments in Imagining Otherwise.
Join Ellah P. Wakatama for an online conversation with Heba Hayek, author of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies.
Root/25 is pleased to invite you to the in-person launch of The Leaf of the Neem Tree, a new collection of short stories and poems by Jamal Mehmood.
Sarah Lasoye and Jamal Mehmood share their work as part of a brand-new online poetry festival.
An online conversation on bitter truths that come with growing out of youth to mark the publication of Jamal Mehmood’s The Leaf of the Neem Tree.
An online conversation on moments from the playground to the present, marking the publication of Sarah Lasoye’s debut collection.
An online panel discussion about the publishing industry with Hajar Press, The Emma Press, Peepal Tree Press and Tilted Axis.
Join us at Cafe OTO for the book launch of Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies, Heba Hayek’s collection of tender yet brutal vignettes on a girlhood in Gaza, Palestine.