Events

9 October - 07:30 pm

The Reacher Guy: The Authorised Biography of Lee Child - Lee Child in Conversation with Dr Heather Martin

10 October - 11:00 am

How to write … for radio: Adapting the Diaries of Samuel Pepys – Hattie Naylor

10 October - 03:00 pm

Sway: The Science of Unconscious Bias – Dr Pragya Agarwal In conversation with Dr Laura Kilby

11 October - 01:00 pm

How to … Read out Loud: Samuel West

11 October - 03:00 pm

Jane Austen: Writing, Society, Politics - Professor Thomas Keymer

11 October - 06:30 pm

The Poet Laureate's Drive-In with Simon Armitage Supported by Warda Yassin

12 October - 02:00 pm

How to read… a play: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good – Dr Sophie Bush

12 October - 07:30 pm

Live with The Sheffield Laureate - Otis Mensah and Warda Yassin In conversation with Magid Magid

13 October - 06:00 pm

Loud Black Girls - Yomi Adegoke in conversation with Sharna Jackson

13 October - 07:30 pm

Introducing Verzet Chapbooks

14 October - 06:30 pm

A Date with Dialogue Books – Paul Mendez and Yvonne Battle-Felton In conversation with Professor Harriet Tarlo

14 October - 07:30 pm

Proof Party! With Lisa McInerney , Danielle McLaughlin and Emily Layden in conversation with Catherine Taylor

15 October - 06:00 pm

It’s Not About the Burqa - Mariam Khan and Afshan D’Souza-Lodhi In Conversation with Kaltum Rivers

15 October - 08:00 pm

What You Could Have Won - Rachel Genn In conversation with Tara Tobler

16 October - 06:00 pm

Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West – Luke Harding In conversation with Professor Matthew Flinders

16 October - 07:30 pm

One In, All In: Football Poetry Compered by Ian McMillan

17 October - 11:00 am

Write Now – Creative Writing Workshop with Yvonne Battle-Felton

17 October - 03:00 pm

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders – Jane Robinson

17 October - 05:00 pm

Stories of Hope: Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives - Heather Morris In conversation with Joe Haddow

17 October - 07:30 pm

My Name is Why – Lemn Sissay In conversation with Auriel Majumdar

18 October - 01:00 pm

Sheffield Castle – Professor John Moreland and Professor Dawn Hadley

18 October - 03:00 pm

Word Perfect - Susie Dent in conversation with Sam Cleasby

18 October - 06:00 pm

The Storm - Akeem Balogun In conversation with Benjamin Webster

18 October - 07:30 pm

Broken Greek – Pete Paphides In conversation with Auriel Majumdar

19 October - 05:00 pm

New Realism: Contemporary British Cinema – Dr David Forrest

19 October - 07:30 pm

Never Leave the Dog Behind - Helen Mort In Conversation with Sam Cleasby

20 October - 06:00 pm

Mudlarking - Lara Maiklem

20 October - 07:30 pm

I’m Not Your Baby Mother – Candice Brathwaite in conversation with Désirée Reynolds

21 October - 06:30 pm

Writing True Fiction – A Masterclass with Nikesh Shukla

21 October - 07:30 pm

The Number Bias - Sanne Blauw In conversation with Professor Wyn Morgan

22 October - 06:00 pm

Poetry and Prose - Selina Nwulu, Keisha Thompson and Irenosen Okojie  

22 October - 07:30 pm

The Nanny State Made Me - A Story of Britain and How to Save it – Stuart Maconie in conversation with Paulette Edwards

22 October - 07:30 pm

Novel Slam

23 October - 06:00 pm

Killing Eve: Die for Me – Luke Jennings in conversation with Kat Harbourne

23 October - 07:30 pm

Doppelgangster, SHU Performance Company 20 & La Trobe University present Bad Reputation - Part 1

24 October - 03:00 pm

Women of Steel -  Michelle Rawlins in conversation with Nancy Fielder

24 October - 05:00 pm

How to write … plays: Laura Wade in conversation with Dr Henry Bell

24 October - 07:30 pm

The Art of Disruption - Magid Magid in conversation with Sile Sibanda

24 October - 07:30 pm

Doppelgangster, SHU Performance Company 20 & La Trobe University present Bad Reputation - Part 2

25 October - 02:00 pm

Hope in Hell - Jonathon Porritt in conversation with Professor Tony Ryan

25 October - 07:30 pm

The Prosecutor - Nazir Afzal In conversation with Dr Sejal Parmar

25 October - 07:30 pm

Doppelgangster, SHU Performance Company 20 & La Trobe University present Bad Reputation - Part 3

26 October - 02:00 pm

Fantastic Female Adventurers - Illustrator Chellie Carroll In conversation with Sharna Jackson

26 October - 07:30 pm

Remarkable People - Dan Walker In conversation with Trisha Cooper

26 October - 07:30 pm

Doppelgangster, SHU Performance Company 20 & La Trobe University present Bad Reputation - Part 4

27 October - 01:00 pm

Creative Writing for Bi-lingual Tongues – Warda Yassin

27 October - 02:00 pm

Little Wise Wolf with Hanneke Siemensma, Gijs van der Hammen and Laura Watkinson

27 October - 05:00 pm

How to read … graphic novels: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi – Dr Harriet Earle

27 October - 07:00 pm

A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson Plus Support: Lauren Hollingsworth-Smith & Georgie Woodhead

27 October - 07:30 pm

Doppelgangster, SHU Performance Company 20 & La Trobe University present Bad Reputation - Part 5

27 October - 08:00 pm

The Last Day – Andrew Hunter Murray In conversation with Gregory Norminton

28 October - 02:00 pm

Lampie and the Children of the Sea with Annet Schaap and Laura Watkinson

28 October - 06:30 pm

Writing Fiction for Children – A Masterclass with Caroline Lawrence

28 October - 07:30 pm

How to be a Liberal: The Six Lies of Nationalism – Ian Dunt

28 October - 07:30 pm

Doppelgangster, SHU Performance Company 20 & La Trobe University present Bad Reputation - Part 6

29 October - 02:00 pm

Gender Swapped Fairy Tales - Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Plackett

29 October - 07:30 pm

Black History in the Age of Black Lives Matter – David Olusoga in conversation with Colin Grant

29 October - 07:30 pm

Doppelgangster, SHU Performance Company 20 & La Trobe University present Bad Reputation - Part 7

30 October - 02:00 pm

My Family and the Galapagos  - Monty Halls

31 October - 11:00 am

How to Write … a novel: Patrick McGuinness in conversation with Dr Charles Mundye

31 October - 11:00 am

Hive Young Writers’ Day: Young Actors & Writers Monologue Masterclass - John Rwoth-Omack

31 October - 02:00 pm

Long Way Home – Dan Jarvis in conversation with Paulette Edwards

31 October - 06:00 pm

Kit de Waal In conversation with Désirée Reynolds

23 November - 09:00 am

The Youth Word Up! A Spoken Word Podcast by Young People