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City of Literature Weekend

Friday 24 – Sunday 26 May

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In a turbulent world where news is fake and facts are fiction, books, words and ideas have never been more vital. As portals to new worlds and ways of seeing, they have a special magic that guides, distracts, angers and illuminates us.

Produced by the National Centre for Writing, this weekend celebrates Norwich as a UNESCO designated home to writers, thinkers, storytellers and readers.

Take a look below at all of the events taking place over the weekend. Click on the events to find out more information and to book tickets.

Important information

Friday 24 May

10.30am: Universal Women

Aida Edemariam and Sinéad Gleeson

11am: Guided Tour of Dragon Hall

Home to the National Centre For Writing

12.30pm: Lowborn

Kerry Hudson

2.30pm: Sarah Hall in Conversation With Lila Azam Zanganeh

4pm: Some Kids I Taught And What They Taught Me

Kate Clanchy

7.30pm: Dragon Hall After Dark

Adelaide Ivánova and Rachel Long

Saturday 25 May

10am: Epic Continent

Nicholas Jubber

10am: Workshop: Postcard Stories With Jan Carson

11.30am: Portrait of an Anxious Nation

Tom Bolton & James Meek

1pm: The Empire Speaks Back

Priyamvada Gopal

2pm: Guided Tour of Dragon Hall

Home to the National Centre For Writing

2.30pm: Harriet Martineau Lecture: Sarah Perry

5.30pm: Page Against The Machine

with The Book Hive

6pm: Fire & Rain

Jan Carson and Inua Ellams

7.30pm: Celebrating 20 Years of Salt

Andrew Cowan, S.A. Harris, Andrew McDonnell and Simon Okotie

Sunday 26 May

10am: The Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

Rose George

11am: Guided Tour of Dragon Hall

Home to the National Centre For Writing

11.30am: The Spectacle of Illusion

Matthew Tompkins

Unnatural Causes

Dr Richard Shepherd

The Path to Publication: 40 Years of Granta Magazine

Tickets

Book four ore more events and save £1.50 per ticket. (Excludes Workshop: Postcard Stories with Jan Carson on Saturday 25 May)

In partnership with National Centre for Writing.

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