Celebrating everything bookish or wordy, Milton Keynes Literary Festival returns for its first season of in-person events since 2019, with a wealth of writer events and conversation, writing workshop and masterclasses, and sessions with children’s authors.
'MK Lit Fest Springs Back!' will be taking place on 14-15 April in two impeccably wordy city centre venues: MK Central Library and Waterstones Midsummer Place.
Pop along to meet renowned authors, discover new favourites, get books signed – or even take part in a workshop to develop your own writing.
Fiction fans and literary types will recognise bestselling and award-winning authors Kit de Waal, in conversation about her captivating memoir, Without Warning and Only Sometimes, and Jennifer Saint with her brand new novel, Atalanta.
There will be a wealth of stellar non-fiction too, as Russell Jones – known to hundreds of thousands of social media users as @russincheshire – brings his bestseller, The Decade in Tory; John Grindrod, writer of a series of books on modern architecture and contemporary buildings, talks to Fiona Robinson of MK Futures 2050 about his book, Iconicon; and Sinclair McKay – author of several titles about Bletchley Park – reveals the 50 Codes that Changed the World.
Bletchley Park figures largely in one of the children’s book selections too, as Rhian Tracey draws on exciting family history and true historic events in her book I, Spy: A Bletchley Park Mystery.
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Meanwhile, Sarah Coyle will enchant younger readers with her interactive session, Pick A Story: A Dinosaur+Unicorn+Robot Adventure.
For those seeking fresh new voices, bestselling debut novelist and MK resident Lizzie Damilola Blackburn and her book Yinka, where is your husband? might appeal.
The winners of the MinK2023 Creative Writing Competition will read their work and the third anthology of the best local writing will be launched.
For writers, there is a writing workshop with the Hawthornden and Polari Prize winning poet, John McCullough, and a masterclass on The Art of the Short Story with the editor of Scratch Books, Tom Conaghan.
A free online creative writing workshop is also in the diary for April 16.
MK Lit Fest: there’s a title for everyone, and they’re all page-turners!
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