London's pioneering celebration of words, text and language returns for another year, playing host to the most adventurous programme yet.
With everything from music to stand-up, through shadow-puppetry, micro-lectures, screen-printing nuns and performance poetry, to crime-comic-jazz interpretations: this is the festival that looks way beyond the page.
When? -April 2014 tba . Ran from 2008 to 2011 and looks like a hiatus in 2012 may have been terminal as no news of 2013 as yet?
Where? Various locations around London
Who? tba
“I could easily imagine Dickens, Addison or Dr Johnson doing a brilliant ‘set's at the London Word Festival."
- Richard Morrison, The Times
“ever wonderful”
- The Independent
“London's alternative literature festival”
- The Guardian
"a gift from the linguistic gods"
- The Londonist
“the cat's pyjamas”
Festival Website? www.londonwordfestival.com | www.twitter.com/ldnwordfestival
If you are involved in this festival you can update or change details via the organisers page . Authors can list here.