Literary-art Events in Oxford

Check out happening literary-art events all around Oxford, EN

In Conversation: Kimberlé Crenshaw with Jude Kelly

 Fri, 22 May at 06:00 pm St Catherine's College Free

Marina Hyde: What a Time to Be Alive!

 Mon, 21 Sep at 07:00 pm The Sheldonian Theatre GBP 22 to 56

Francis Fukuyama IN THE REALM OF THE LAST MAN

 Fri, 04 Sep at 07:00 pm Examination Schools, University of Oxford GBP 12 to 30

Maria Semple GO GENTLE with Viv Groskop

 Tue, 26 May at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 20

Carlo Rovelli ON THE EQUALITY OF ALL THINGS with Iain McGilchrist

 Wed, 23 Sep at 07:30 pm The Sheldonian Theatre GBP 30 to 35

Amy Wallace NOBODY'S GIRL with Kate Mosse

 Fri, 03 Jul at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 10 to 30

Rowan Williams with Philip Goff WHY?

 Mon, 07 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 8

SJC Literary Festival: Puppet storytelling with Emma Boor

 Sat, 23 May at 10:00 am Garden Quad Reception Room - St John's College Free

SJC Literary Festival: Professor Lady Sue Black 'An Expert Witness'

 Sat, 23 May at 03:00 pm Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College Free

YA Thrills: Four Bold Voices on Magic, Mayhem and M**der

 Thu, 28 May at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 5

Connecting Creatives in Oxford

 Tue, 26 May at 06:00 pm Little Clarendon Street GBP 14 to 20

The Tempest | Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert

 Wed, 03 Jun at 07:00 pm Holywell Music Room GBP 10 to 25

PRIDE 2026 Rosa Rankin Gee and Josh Silver

 Sat, 06 Jun at 03:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop Free

'North Cormorant Island' - Free Screening and Filmmaker Q&A

 Mon, 15 Jun at 06:00 pm The Ultimate Picture Palace Free

Hernan Diaz PLY

 Mon, 19 Oct at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 20

Daisy Johnson LONG WAVE

 Mon, 29 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 19

15th International Conference on Restructuring of the Global Economy (ROGE)

 Mon, 10 Aug at 08:30 am Saïd Business School (Park End Street) (University of Oxford) GBP 250 to 430

An Evening With James Naughtie

 Tue, 07 Jul at 08:00 pm Oxford Festival of the Arts GBP 14

Oxford Famous Alumni Outdoor Exploration Game

 Mon, 01 Jun at 12:01 am The Eagle and Child GBP 8

Daisuke Yomsumi LET GO

 Sat, 23 May at 03:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop Free

Documentary screening: Free Nelson Mandela

 Thu, 28 May at 07:00 pm Mark Bedingham Room, St John's College Free

Charles Foster THE EDGES OF THE WORLD with Dan Kieran

 Mon, 01 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 22

SJC Literary Festival: In Conversation with Simon Mason

 Sun, 24 May at 03:00 pm Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College Free

Michael Attwell THE MOORS MURDERS with Triona Adams

 Thu, 04 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 11

M. John Harrison THE END OF EVERYTHING with Ben Pester

 Mon, 15 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 17

Julian Evans UNDEFEATABLE with Luke Harding

 Thu, 24 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 13

Zakia Sewell FINDING ALBION with Owen Davies

 Wed, 09 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

Jonn Elledge 35 INVENTIONS THAT BUILT OUR WORLD

 Fri, 09 Oct at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

Lucy Lapwing LOVE IS A TOAD

 Sat, 12 Sep at 03:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop Free

Christie Watson KILLING ME SOFTLY with Rachel Clarke

 Wed, 01 Jul at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 20

Shades of Survival

 Wed, 01 Jul at 04:00 pm Curzon Oxford Free

British Decades

 Mon, 27 Apr at 07:00 pm Magdalen College Free

Gwyneth Lewis NIGHTSHADE MOTHER with Kate Kennedy

 Wed, 29 Jul at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 11

Erin Maglaque PRESENCE with Alison Light

 Thu, 10 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

Peter Jones SELF HELP FROM THE MIDDLE AGES with Helen Carr

 Tue, 23 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 20

Frank Cottrell-Boyce A BRITISH CHILDHOOD

 Wed, 10 Jun The Sheldonian Theatre GBP 10 to 22

Extraordinary People: Compton Mackenzie and Queer Capri in the 1920s-30s’

 Thu, 04 Jun at 06:00 pm Il Corno - Panuozzo Bar Free

Khushwant Singh Literary Festival Oxford 2026

 Tue, 02 Jun at 03:00 pm St Antony's College Free

In Conversation with Bruno Macaes

 Mon, 08 Jun at 05:30 pm St. Anne's College - Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre Free

Unravelling History & The Material of Living

 Sat, 23 May at 07:00 pm The Community Works GBP 3 to 12

Amber Husain TELL ME HOW YOU EAT with Eleanor Penny

 Tue, 02 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 19

Grains of … Sound

 Mon, 29 Jun at 07:30 pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building (St Hilda's College) GBP 22

Bluestocking Meets Vogue

 Thu, 28 May at 06:30 pm Christ Church GBP 12 to 53

June's Book Club: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson, 1985)

 Tue, 02 Jun at 06:30 pm Curzon Oxford Free

An Evening with Ivor Novello (Performance+Silent film screening)

 Wed, 08 Jul at 09:00 pm Oxford Festival of the Arts GBP 22

Olivia Plender in Conversation with Prof. Kathryn Murphy

 Sat, 23 May at 02:00 pm Modern Art Oxford Free

Rebel Book Club Oxford x SPEAKING OUT

 Tue, 26 May at 07:00 pm Gulp Fiction GBP 17

Summer school Oxford 3-17th August 2026 Economics, Finance, ESG, Governance

 Mon, 03 Aug at 10:00 am The H B Allen Centre GBP 0 to 1,951

TEACH THE WORD 2026

 Sat, 27 Jun at 10:00 am The King's Centre GBP 0 to 28

SJC Literary Festival: Storytelling with Adam and Charlotte Guillain

 Sun, 24 May at 10:30 am Garden Quad Reception Room - St John's College Free

Reading the signs: Conference at Kellogg college

 Fri, 29 May at 09:30 am The hub, Kellogg College GBP 33

REGGAE-DUB-CULTURE-UNITY & LIBERATION

 Sat, 30 May at 03:00 pm Florence Park CC GBP 8

Naples in the Novels of Elena Ferrante

 Thu, 28 May at 06:00 pm Il Corno - Panuozzo Bar Free

Cristina A. Bejan and Paul Kenyon INTELLECTUALS AND FASCISM IN ROMANIA

 Fri, 19 Jun at 12:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop Free

Sally Bayley WORM IN THE BUD with Victoria Tennant

 Sat, 13 Jun at 02:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop Free

Literary Escape Festival - `Oxford

 Sat, 12 Sep at 10:00 am West Oxford Community Centre GBP 0 to 12

2026

 Thu, 10 Sep at 09:00 am Mansfield College GBP 30 to 100

Managing Behaviour and Workload with Sue Cowley

 Fri, 03 Jul at 09:00 am Unipart conference centre GBP 70 to 100

Andrea Bajani THE ANNIVERSARY with Sam Knight

 Thu, 02 Jul at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 13

Lamorna Ash DON'T FORGET WE'RE HERE FOREVER

 Tue, 15 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6

Encounters with Landscapes

 Fri, 22 May at 07:00 pm Oxford Friends Meeting House GBP 10 to 15

SJC Literary Festival: Mona Arshi and Oxford Poetry Society

 Sat, 23 May at 01:30 pm Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College Free

After Hours: Connect - 28th May

 Thu, 28 May at 06:00 pm Modern Art Oxford GBP 8 to 12

Secondhand Clothes & Homeware Pop-Up

 Fri, 29 May at 10:00 am 130 Hurst St Free

Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference 2026

 Mon, 07 Sep at 12:00 pm New College GBP 0 to 445

Improv in 6 Acts June - July 2026

 Mon, 01 Jun at 07:00 pm The Oak Room, The Old Schoolhouse GBP 90 to 180

Antara Haldar EVERYMAN

 Wed, 30 Sep at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 25

Writing Picture Books with Anna Kemp - 4 week course

 Tue, 02 Jun at 07:00 pm St Margaret's Institute GBP 198

Urmila Seshagiri THE LIFE OF VIOLET with David James

 Tue, 30 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 17

SJC Literary Festival: Junior Book Club (age 8+)

 Sat, 23 May at 02:00 pm Garden Quad Reception Room - St John's College Free

Snarks, Rhymes and Riddles

 Sun, 05 Jul at 02:00 pm St Margaret of Antioch, Church Free

July's Book Club: Fantasy

 Tue, 07 Jul at 06:30 pm Curzon Oxford Free

Amanda Golden THE POEMS OF SYLVIA PLATH with Erica McAlpine

 Mon, 06 Jul at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 40

Zine Workshop: Threading the Self and Forming Transnational Solidarities

 Sun, 14 Jun at 12:00 pm The Nest Free

Can Anyone Survive Sicily’s Landscape? A 12th-Century Political Experiment

 Wed, 17 Jun at 05:00 pm Rewley House Free

Where AI Meets the Nature Ready Economy Summer School, August 2026

 Mon, 17 Aug at 10:00 am The H B Allen Centre Free

100 years of These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer 18th Century Ball @ the Divinity School with Follia

 Sun, 04 Oct at 06:30 pm Oxford Divinity School

Noticing Nature - Harcourt Hill

 Fri, 12 Jun at 10:00 am Harcourt Hill Free

"This is Why": Translators on Translating

 Sat, 13 Jun at 04:30 pm St Anne’s College, Seminar Room 7 Free

Jubilee Concert marking the 100th Anniversary of Polish Radio

 Sat, 06 Jun at 06:00 pm St Anne's College Free

Oxford Poetry Circle: Perfume Garden

 Thu, 28 May at 07:00 pm The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities GBP 6

Michael Bond ANIMATE with Niall Munro

 Wed, 08 Jul at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 22

When Is a Hill Not a Hill? Medieval Place-Names and Landscape Use

 Wed, 03 Jun at 05:00 pm Rewley House Free

Kellogg College Creative Writing Competition Final

 Thu, 25 Jun at 05:00 pm The Hub, Kellogg College Free

Feminist Translation

 Sat, 13 Jun at 11:30 am St Anne’s College, Seminar Room 9 Free

Slovo House. Unfinished Novel (2021): Film Screening and Q&A with Director

 Wed, 27 May at 07:30 pm Wolfson College Free

Like Watching Music: Fred Astaire and Lil Buck, virtuosi of the everyday

 Thu, 18 Jun at 05:30 pm Jacqueline du Pré Music Building (St Hilda's College) Free

Frankenstein’s Dream

 Fri, 12 Jun at 05:30 pm Mansfield College Free

Sparky's Flying Circus

 Thu, 28 May at 08:30 pm Half Moon Oxford

Theology After Fergus Kerr

 Wed, 08 Jul at 01:00 pm Meet at the Blackfriars MCR GBP 33 to 44

August's Book Club: Beach Read

 Tue, 04 Aug at 06:30 pm Curzon Oxford Free

SJC Literary Festival: In Conversation with Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

 Sat, 23 May at 11:30 am Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College Free

The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus

 Sat, 30 May at 09:30 am St Anne's College GBP 25 to 196

After Hours: Book Club - 20th August

 Thu, 20 Aug at 06:00 pm Modern Art Oxford GBP 9 to 15

September's Book Club: Science Fiction

 Tue, 01 Sep at 06:30 pm Curzon Oxford Free

November's Book Club: Spooky

 Tue, 03 Nov at 06:30 pm Curzon Oxford Free

Lydia Cabrera's El Monte & Diasporic Afro-Cuban Spirituality

 Tue, 09 Jun at 05:00 pm The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities Free

The Future Now: Grassroots Solutions to the Crisis of Our Times

 Wed, 19 Aug at 10:00 am Examination Schools, University of Oxford Free

Papercraft Poetry

 Sat, 08 Aug at 01:30 am 21 Park End St GBP 3 to 12

Translating Dialect

 Sat, 13 Jun at 11:30 am St Anne’s College, Seminar Room 8 Free