Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Stoke Newington Literary Festival has been described as 'Unique... the proper London LitFest' (Irvine Welsh), 'The coolest literary festival of the summer' (Authonomy), and 'A lovingly curated, local-yet-global happening' (Robin Ince).

The festival celebrates the area's long history of literature (Edgar Allen Poe, Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft & Anna Laetitia Barbauld lived here) and radical thinking (the Founding Fathers came through the area to pick up the latest ideas from the group of non-conformist academics who settled here). The festival is a non-profit organisation and is proud to support a range of literacy and community projects in Hackney.

When? June 3-5, 2016

Where? Venues across Stoke Newington, N16.

Who? 2016 - Piers Atkinson +

How Much are Tickets? £5-£15 with some free events.

Programme? www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com

Festival Website: Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Twitter? @StokeyLitFest

Facbook? Stokey Litfest

Past Festivals?

2015 - Will Self, Fay Weldon, Mark Thomas, Tracey Thorn, Owen Jones, Will Hutton, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Michael Rosen, Caroline Criado-Perez, Courttia Newland, Jesse Armstrong, Diana Henry, Iain Sinclair, Tjinder Singh, Suzanne Moore, Nikesh Shukla, Zoe Williams, David Whitehouse, Andy Miller, Polly Vernon, Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Stuart Evers +

Previous years' guests include Tony Benn, Irvine Welsh, Ray Davis, Elif Shafak, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Stewart Lee, Viv Albertine, A. C. Grayling, John Cooper Clarke, David Walliams, A.L. Kennedy, Mark Kermode, Caitlin Moran, China Mieville, Wilko Johnson, Linda Grant, Jonathan Meades, Alexei Sayle, Stephen Berkoff and Stella Duffy.