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The University of Leicester's annual festival of literature, featuring free lectures, talks and readings. Save the date 18-21 March 2026!
🐞🐴 CLASSICS FROM MY CHILDHOOD🐴 🐞
Join the Special Collections team for an enchanting journey through rare books , featuring beloved classics such as Black Beauty
🗓️ Sat 21 March ⏰️ 13.00–14.00 & 14.30–15.30 📍 David Wilson Library
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🚲️ RIDE LEICESTER 🚲️
This bike tour will take you to the homes and local haunts of five major writers who lived in the city.
🗓️ Sat 21 March ⏰️ 11.00–13.00
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➗️🌟 MATHS WITH A STORY🌟➗️
Come and join us for a wonderful workshop with children’s author Professor Rose Griffiths. Play our games and change the rules or design your own game.
🗓️ Sat 21 March ⏰️ 10.30–12.00📍Beaumont Hall Botanic Gardens, Oadby
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🌎️ LIAS PRESENTS: 10 PEOPLE WHO CHANGED THE WORLD 🌎️
10 university lecturers pitch the person they think changed the world and the audience judge the winner!
🗓️ Fri 20 March ⏰️ 16.30–17.45 📍 Att Arts
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✍️WRITE LEICESTER✍️
Join Leicester-born author Manish Chauhan, our own poet laureate Mr Shay, & writer & publisher Farhana Shaikh as they explore place, identity & what it means to write our wonderful city of Leicester.
🗓️ Fri 20 March ⏰️ 15.00–16.00 📍 Att Arts
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📚️ ✏️ FIRST STORY YOUNG WRITERS’ SHOWCASE✏️ 📚️
Writers from First Story Creative Writing Programme perform with poets Andy Craven-Griffiths & John Berkavitch. Expect silly sonnets, angsty acrostics, romantic rapping & more
🗓️ Fri 20 March ⏰️ 13.30–14.30 📍Att Arts
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🖌️ THE ART OF THE PAGE: A VISUAL POETRY WORKSHOP WITH KARENJIT SANDHU🖌️
Through guided experiments you’ll be introduced to visual poetry with simple instructions and creative layouts.
🗓️ Fri 20 March ⏰️ 12.30–13.30📍Central Library
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🗓 Wed 18 Feb ⏰ 17:00–18:15
📍 Att Seminar Block Lecture Theatre 1
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🎩🎻 THE AMAZING LIVES OF BILLY WATERS: HOW TO BE FAMOUS IN THE 19TH CENTURY 🎻🎩
Billy Waters: busker, sailor, immigrant, amputee, father, a forgotten Black celebrity from Regency London. This talk explores how visual images can 'fill in' the gaps and silences in the records we have of past lives.
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✨️❤️🔥 BAZ LUHRMANN'S ROMEO + JULIET❤️🔥✨️
Join us for a screening of Baz Luhrmann’s cult classic Romeo+Juliet to celebrate its 30 year anniversary!
Introduction by Dr David Christopher and Students
🗓️ Wed 25 Feb ⏰️ 18:00 - 21:00 📍 Attenborough Theatre
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📚⚖️ JUDGING MAJOR BOOK PRIZES ⚖️📚
Join our esteemed panel of experts to hear the inside story on the biggest literary prizes, including the Booker, Women’s, Climate, Baillie Gifford and English PEN awards.
🗓 Thurs 19 March | ⏰ 17.00–18.00📍 Attenborough Arts
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🤖 🌎️ NEW VOICES, FUTURE WORLDS🌎️ 🤖
Join us for a panel with Fantasy and Science Fiction’s most dazzling and original new voices. Winners of the ‘Future Worlds Prize’ for writers of colour share the inspirations for their words and worlds.
🗓 Thurs 19 March ⏰ 15.30–16.30📍 Attenborough Arts 🎟️ in bio
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🌱DESPITE IT ALL: A HANDBOOK FOR CLIMATE HOPEFULS 🌱
Fred Pearce has spent over 4 decades reporting from the front line of climate change. What he’s witnessed has given him reason for cautious hope.
🗓 Thurs 19 March | ⏰ 14.00–15.00📍 Attenborough Arts Centre
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✨CREATIVE WRITING STUDENT SHOWCASE ✨
A chance to hear new poems, stories and more from the university’s talented Creative Writing students.
📅 Thurs 19 March ⏰ 12.00–13.15📍 Attenborough Arts Centre, Main Hall
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🚨🔮 CRIMES OF TOMORROW 🔮🚨
What will the great crimes of the future be? Our three guest crime writers tackle tech terrorism, environmental disaster, and world-changing medical advances.
🗓 Wed 18 March | ⏰ 15.30–16.30 📍 Attenborough Arts Centre
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🎭🕵️ HOW TO BE A LIAR 🕵️🎭
🗓 Wednesday 18 March | ⏰ 14.00–15.00📍 Attenborough Arts Centre, Main Hall
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Join us for an absorbing conversation between one of the country’s leading investigative
psychologists, a crime novelist and a retired probation officer.
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🕵️♀️📖 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AGATHA CHRISTIE 📖🕵️♂️
Join Dr Mark Aldridge for a lively introduction to the ‘Queen of Crime’, marking fifty years since Agatha Christie’s death.
🗓 Wed 18 March | ⏰ 12.30–13.30📍 Attenborough Arts Centre, Main Hall
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⭐ HEADLINER ANNOUNCEMENT ⭐
Sophie Hannah: Poirot and Me
bestselling crime fiction writer Sophie Hannah talks about her captivating psychological thrillers and new Hercule Poirot novels.
🗓 Wednesday 18 March ⏰ 18.30–19.30📍 Sir Bob Burgess Building
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Some-Antics featuring Ishtiaq Hussain
Some-Antics welcomes Ishtiaq Hussain, the British Sign Language Poet Laureate. This event will be fully BSL interpreted.
🗓 Fri 20 March | ⏰ 19.30–Late📍 Phoenix Cinema
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⭐ HEADLINER ANNOUNCEMENT ⭐
Jonathan Coe is Innocent
We’re delighted to welcome one of Britain’s pre-eminent authors to celebrate his newest novel!
🗓 Thursday 19th March ⏰ 19.00–20.00 📍Sir Bob Burgess Building
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