Writing Events in Oxford

Check out happening writing events all around Oxford, EN

'The Girl from Woolwich: A Creative Life' with Bernardine Evaristo

 Wed, 06 May at 05:30 pm The Sheldonian Theatre Free

Brandon Sanderson delivers the 2026 Tolkien Lecture

 Tue, 19 May at 06:00 pm Oxford Town Hall GBP 0 to 50

Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane THE BOOK OF BIRDS

 Thu, 07 May at 06:00 pm The Sheldonian Theatre GBP 10 to 40

British Decades

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

Patrick Ness PIPER AT THE GATES OF DUSK with Katherine Webber

 Thu, 16 Apr at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 17

Maria Semple GO GENTLE with Viv Groskop

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

Sonya Walger WIFEHOUSE

 Mon, 20 Apr at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 17

Katja Hoyer WEIMAR

 Wed, 06 May at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 30

Oxford-BNU Creative Writing Award Ceremony 2026

 Thu, 14 May at 12:30 pm The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities Free

Claire Fuller HUNGER AND THIRST with Lucy Atkins

 Mon, 11 May at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 19

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

SJC Literary Festival: In Conversation with Simon Mason

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

Sophia Smith Galer HOW TO K*ll A LANGUAGE

 Mon, 18 May at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 22

Charles Foster THE EDGES OF THE WORLD

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

Christie Watson KILLING ME SOFTLY with Rachel Clarke

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

Gwyneth Lewis NIGHTSHADE MOTHER with Kate Kennedy

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

Lily Dunn INTO BEING with Richard Beard

 Thu, 23 Apr at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6

Midnight in Oxford: A Magazine and Small Press Mixer

 Fri, 22 May at 07:00 pm Lincoln College GBP 13

Multilingual Poetics with Jane Draycott and Mary Jean Chan

 Mon, 27 Apr at 05:30 pm Harris Manchester College GBP 9

Amber Husain TELL ME HOW YOU EAT with Eleanor Penny

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

Jennifer Lane UNDERWING with Bev Wass

 Sat, 11 Apr at 03:00 pm Blackwell's Bookshop Free

Sally Bayley WORM IN THE BUD with Elisabeth Gray

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

Francesca Wade and James Bailey ON SPARK AND STEIN

 Mon, 27 Apr at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6

The Healing Page: Writing Workshops

 Sun, 22 Mar The Retreat Room, Oxford Friends Meeting House GBP 20

Peter Fiennes EN ROUTE

 Thu, 25 Jun at 05:30 pm Blackwell's Bookshop GBP 6 to 19

Urmila Seshagiri THE LIFE OF VIOLET with David James

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

Lamorna Ash DON'T FORGET WE'RE HERE FOREVER

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

Romance Authors: Girls Night In at Oxford Westgate Library

 Wed, 29 Apr at 06:00 pm Oxford Westgate Library Free

'Writing for Children' Beginners Workshop

 Sat, 11 Apr at 05:00 pm The Victoria Arms Library Room GBP 44

Entering the Loophole: Surveying American Slavery in an English Village

 Thu, 16 Apr at 06:30 pm Old Fire Station Free

Oxford Poetry Circle Presents: April Beginnings

 Thu, 30 Apr at 07:00 pm The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities GBP 6

GCHU Public Seminar: Can the arts heal?

 Wed, 29 Apr at 05:30 pm Kellogg College 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

Writing Picture Books Course with Anna Kemp

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

The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus

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

Kellogg College Creative Writing Competition Final

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

Poetry Workshop with T.S. Eliot Prize Winner George Szirtes

 Tue, 12 May at 03:00 pm Keble College GBP 28

Papercraft Poetry

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

Write Space

 Fri, 17 Jan at 01:30 pm The Community Works Free