Bristol Women's Literature Festival (CANCELLED)

Season

Please note : this season finished in March 2020

Bristol Women’s Literature Festivalreturns for a fourth programme to bring together the best and brightest women writers, thinkers, journalists and academics for a weekend of fascinating conversation, debate, and reflection.

We're the oldest existing festival celebrating women’s history, writing, and cultural heritage. Set up to counter the male dominance of festival line-ups, review pages and prizes, the 2020 programme promises to be their biggest ever as they invite women writers from around the world to the heart of Bristol. So please join us for a weekend of panels and talks that will inspire, challenge, introduce you to new writers and reconnect you with old favourites.

Bristol Women's Literature Festival is supported by Arts Council England and the Bristol Festival of Ideas.

Please note the Bristol Women's Literature Festival has been cancelled - see the BWLF statement here. To organise a refund please call Watershed Box Office on 0117 927 5100.

Previous events in this season

Women Writing the Wild

Bristol Women's Literature Festival

Please note: This event took place in March 2020

Panel Discussion

A panel discussion led by Dr Samantha Walton on the role literature can play in engaging us with the natural world.

Women in Translation

Bristol Women's Literature Festival

Please note: This event took place in March 2020

Panel Discussion

Literary translator Rosalind Harvey chairs a discussion on the gender disparity in translation with writers and translators Laia Jufresa, Olivia Hellewell and Trifonia Melibea Obono.

Professor Helen Taylor: Why Women Read Fiction

Bristol Women's Literature Festival

Please note: This event took place in March 2020

Talk

Professor Helen Taylor introduces her groundbreaking book on women reading fiction.

Writing our lives

Bristol Women's Literature Festival

Please note: This event took place in March 2020

Panel Discussion

Dr Madhu Krishnan talks to Juliet Jacques, Olivia Sudjic, Zeba Talkhani and Clover Stroud about why women are turning to new forms of memoir to explore and write our lives.

Viv Groskop lifts us all up!

Bristol Women's Literature Festival

Please note: This event took place in March 2020

Talk

Journalist, writer and comedian Viv Groskop makes a welcome return to Bristol to talk about her new book: Lift As You Climb.

Women Writing Today

Bristol Women's Literature Festival

Please note: This event took place in March 2020

Panel Discussion

Join some of the most exciting writers working in the UK today as they discuss their creative practice, their literary inspirations, and their journey towards becoming writers.

Writing the news

Bristol Women's Literature Festival

Please note: This event took place in March 2020

Panel Discussion

A panel discussion with Bidisha, Coco Khan, Anoosh Chakelian and Nandini Archer discussing the role women journalists have in explaining the world we live in.

Hadley Freeman and House of Glass

Bristol Women's Literature Festival

Please note: This event took place in March 2020

Talk

Hadley Freeman joins Jenny Lacey to talk about her new book House of Glass, where she investigates her family’s secret history.

Previous events in this season

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