Reading
Polari at Writing on the Wall
London’s award-winning LGBTQ+ literary salon comes to WoWFEST 2024. The inimitable Polari founder and author Paul Burston, presents a dazzling line up of award-winning talent; the multi-talented Rosie Garland, Irish wordsmith Ciaran Hodgers and the legendary Gerry Potter. Paul Burston founded Polari in 2007. The salon has been welcomed at the Southbank Centre, The British...
Turning a Book into a TV Series: Ashleigh Nugent
Ashleigh Nugent and Tom Thostrup, co-founder and Managing Director of 2LE media, will talk through the process of how Ashleigh’s electric debut novel, Locks, was optioned for TV. Locks was published by Picador Books in 2023 and received rave reviews, including 4 out of 5 stars in the Daily Telegraph. Later that year, he secured...
Lights Bearing West: Book Launch with Tony Wailey
Tony Wailey’s latest book, Lights Bearing West, is about memory, place and distance, messages sent, delivered, picked up, put down, kept or discarded. Going away, having adventures and coming home, whether these adventures are first hand or tenth hand, is part of everyone’s trilogy in Liverpool – even for those who have never left the...
The Welsh Connection
The Welsh Connection featuring Manon Steffan Ros, Gareth Twamley & Iwan Steffan. From architecture to Scouse voices, Liverpool is inextricably connected to Wales and owes a debt to the creativity of its people. WoWFEST 2024 celebrates Welsh writing talent with one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary Welsh novelists, Manon Steffan Ros, and the hugely...
Future Station: Like Lockdown Never Happened – Music & Culture during Covid with Joy White
What music got you through the pandemic? Join us for a conversation with Dr Joy White about culture during COVID at our Future Station talk at 6pm on Tuesday 2 April. Joy will draw on her latest book ‘Like Lockdown Never Happened’ to consider the ways in which contemporary Black musical forms helped us to...
Luscious Wellness Day
Located in the heart of the city centre of Liverpool, we welcome you to join us for a very special day of connection and healing at Lush! Take part in enlightening workshops including creative writing, dance, yoga and sound healing. Explore wellness vendors & holistic therapists offering, crystals, candles, tarot, natural beauty products, organic snacks,...
WoWFEST: Fahrenheit 2024
In the grip of a climate emergency, while culture wars and real wars rage, ‘WOWFEST: Fahrenheit 2024 – The temperature at which the world burns’ is an arena for ideas and a call to action. The festival programme draws inspiration from Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, reflecting on the urgency of preserving knowledge and...
Joelle Taylor: The Night Alphabet
A woman walks into a tattoo parlour. But this is no ordinary woman, and this is Hackney in 2233. Jones’ body is covered in tattoos but she wants to add one final inking to her gallery – a thin line of ink mixed with blood that connects her body art together, creating a unique map....
Liverpool’s longest-running radical writing festival returns this May!
In the grip of a climate emergency, while culture wars and real wars rage, ‘WOWFEST: Fahrenheit 2024 – The temperature at which the world burns’ is an arena for ideas and a call to action. Featuring Irvine Welsh, Beatrix Campbell, Jon Ronson, Jackie Kay, Jah Wobble, Salena Godden, Peter Hooton, Joelle Taylor, Andrew McMillian, Paul...
Book Launch: What the Mine Gives, The Mine Takes
Join us for the book launch of What The Mine Gives, The Mine Takes with Ana Alenso, editor and artist, Lucía Pizzani, artist contributor to the book, and Raquel Villar-Pérez, curator at Impressions Gallery. Like a mighty river that flows and deviates from its course, What The Mine Gives, The Mine Takes invites us on...