Events 2023
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GOLDSMITHS WRITERS’ CENTRE
The home of new writing, debate about literature and more at Goldsmiths.
Most Wednesdays during term-time 5pm>6pm, Room RHB137, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths SE14
For budding writers and enthusiasts of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, here’s a series of free talks with published authors. The Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre has been established to encourage new writing, to stimulate debate about all forms of literature, and create links between the different parts of the college where creative writing takes place.
These talks are FREE – no ticket required, just turn up – listings HERE
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Michael Rosen book launch: Adventures in Wonderland & Spinning Gold
Friday 26th September 2025 6pm>8pm, Goldsmiths University LG02 Professor Stuart Hall Building
Launch of Adventures in Wonderland: An Introduction to the History and Theory of Children’s Literature & Spinning Gold: Weaving Tales
Michael Rosen will be talking to John Richmond about his new academic book on children’s literature. Michael Rosen devised an annual series of ten lectures at Goldsmiths on the origins, history and theory of children’s literature. Adventures in Wonderland brings these lectures together, with the addition of three ‘interludes’ selected from elsewhere amongst his many writings and talks on literature for children and young people. This book is edited by John Richmond, designed by Deborah Friedland and Helen Jones, and illustrated by MA Children’s Book Illustrators.
MA Children’s Literature students will be talking about the process of creating this inspirational literary journal. Spinning Gold: Weaving Tales is the third edition of the Spinning Gold literary journal, which is dedicated to showcasing the creative talents of students and alumni from Goldsmiths Children’s Literature Master’s Degree programmes. This collection includes work from illustrators, creative writers and researchers, with a strong emphasis on collaboration. It also features interviews with some of the leading figures in children’s literature today, including former Children’s Laureates Professor Michael Rosen and Joseph Coelho.
This event is FREE, but please book your space HERE.
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Book launch: Katrina Naomi – dance as if
Saturday 4th October 2025 6pm>8pm, The Word Bookshop London SE14 6AF
VERVE Poetry Press takes great pleasure in announcing the launch of Katrina Naomi’s new pamphlet dance as if with guest Richard Scott
Katrina Naomi’s glorious new suite of poems, dance as if, is at once a celebration of the body and a quest for the euphoria of movement – without shame, without self-criticism. dance as if follows Katrina’s fruitful collaboration with the dancer/choreographer Kyra Norman, and Katrina draws on a variety of poetic forms to capture this joyful re-engagement with the physical. In these poems Katrina is rediscovering dance in the wake of sexual violence. But dance as if is a determined movement away from that place to somewhere more sustaining – where female friendship is embraced and where the self – a body and mind in perfect balance – is regained.
dance as if is Katrina’s second pamphlet with VERVE, after the wonderful Typhoon Etiquette which we published in 2019, and we couldn’t be happier! Movement and emotion is transformed into absorbing, surprising and uplifting poetry.
This event is FREE, but please book your space HERE!
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Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen in conversation about storytelling and The Rose Field
Friday 31st October 2025, 5:30pm – 7:30pm – Goldmiths University, London SE14 Ian Gulland LT, Whitehead Building
Join Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen in conversation about storytelling and The Rose Field.
This is a wonderful opportunity to listen to the renowned and inspiring authors, Philip Pullman and Michael Rosen in conversation about storytelling and The Rose Field. Philip will be talking to Michael about the background to writing the book and then discuss elements of The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three.
There will be time to purchase books at the start of the event from 5.30 – 6.00 pm and book signing. Your ticket can be used as a voucher towards the full price of the book. David Brett from our local independent bookshop, ‘The Word’, will be selling copies of The Rose Field at Goldsmiths. The conversation between Philip Pullman will be from 6.00 – 7.00 pm and then there will be 30 minutes for questions, and the event will end at 7.30 pm.
Get your tickets HERE!
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