Lifting the Curtain: Theatre and Censorship

September 27, 2018

With Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, Richard Eyre, Ella Hickson, Gillian Slovo

Marking 50 years since the Lord Chamberlain was stripped of his power to censor plays, three theatre writers examine playwriting in the UK and freedom of expression.

Members’ Book Group – Behzti

September 27, 2018

With Molly Rosenberg

Truth to Life

October 5, 2018

With Inua Ellams, Andrew O'Hagan, Sinéad Morrissey

An evening of readings and celebrations marking five years since he died.

Peace Poetry at Birmingham Literature Festival

October 13, 2018

With Ian Duhig, Menna Elfyn, Pascale Petit

Three RSL Fellows consider the Wilfred Owen and read their own peace poems.

What is Private?

October 16, 2018

With Ramita Navai, Blake Morrison

Blake Morrison and Ramita Navai discuss the notion of privacy in journalism and literature.

Peace Poetry at Liverpool Literary Festival

October 21, 2018

With Janet Beer, Fiona Sampson

RSL Fellow Fiona Sampson reads her newly commissioned poem, as well as poems by Wilfred Owen, Ivor Gurney and other poets writing through conflicts to find a route to npeace.

Peace Poetry

November 4, 2018

With Gillian Clarke, Sabrina Mahfouz, Michael Symmons Roberts

In the final of our Peace Poetry events, BBC Radio 3 New mGeneration Thinker Shahidha Bari chairs a conversation between three RSL poet Fellows, in which they consider Wilfred Owen’s life and death, and the relationship between poetry and peace in their own lifetimes.

Members’ Book Group – Peace Poetry pamphlet

November 4, 2018

With Molly Rosenberg

Literature Matters: Writing and Frankness

November 22, 2018

With Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips, Amia Srinivasan

Why do we read? Why do we write? What do we reveal when we do? Join a writer, a psychotherapist and a philosopher as they discuss what we reveal about ourselves through literature and the difference, if any, between non-fiction, novels and the psychotherapist’s couch.

Criminal Minds

December 2, 2018

With Ian Rankin, Maxim Jakubowski

Ian Rankin discusses the effect of American crime fiction on his work.

Members’ Book Group – In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin

December 2, 2018

With Molly Rosenberg