Writers' Kingston past talks and performances :
www.youtube.com/@writerskingston/videos with over 350 videos as of 2023!
A growing video library of the original talks and performances given at past WK events, hosted on our very own youtube channel, featuring Max Porter, Winsome Pinnock, Joe Dunthorne, Iain Sinclair, Nell Leyshon, Tom McCarthy, Eley Williams, Daniel Hahn, Alexander Frater, Stella Duffy, Tony White, Frederic Forte, Mona Arshi, Stephen Barber, Harry Man, Gareth Evans and many more.
Videos from below are taken from our inaugural year, and all performances / readings can be seen on our youtube channel here
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT DYING on OCTOBER THURSDAY 26TH 2017 : / The Rose Theatre, Kingston WITH GUEST SPEAKER IAIN SINCLAIR ALONGSIDE ANDREW TEVERSON AND SJ FOWLER About the event : The theme for this event was Dying.
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT LIVING on OCTOBER THURSDAY 19TH 2017 : / DORICH HOUSE, KINGSTON WITH GUEST SPEAKER TOM MCCARTHY ALONGSIDE STELLA BOTTAI AND SARA UPSTONE About the event : The theme for this event was Living.
Held at the Mayo Centre, Kingston on January 25th 2018, this event, themed around Forgetting, saw new presentations and readings www.writerscentrekingston.com/forgetting
Held at The Rose Theatre Kingston on January 11th 2018, the 6th event in the Writers' Centre Kingston programme saw new responses to the theme of Loving www.writerscentrekingston.com/loving
https://www.writerscentrekingston.com/pen Nearly a dozen contemporary English writers presented new works, each in tribute to a writer who is part of the English PEN Writer's at Risk programme, writers living under oppression around the world. http://www.englishpen.org Modernist & avant garde writers poets, novelists, playwrights and artists come together to continue English PEN's relationship with innovative contemporary literature.
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT REMEMBERING on November 9th 2017 at Picton room, Kingston. with guest speaker Nell Leyshon with Winsome Pinnock and John Stuart About the event : The theme for this event was Remembering.
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT HOPING DECEMBER THURSDAY 7TH : MINIMA YACHT CLUB, KINGSTON WITH GUEST SPEAKER TONY WHITE ALONGSIDE HELEN JULIA MINORS AND HELEN PALMER, WITH READINGS FROM LUCY FURLONG, SARAH DAWSON, GALE BURNS. About the event : The theme for this event was Hoping.
European Poetry Festival at WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON APRIL THURSDAY 5TH 2018 / THE ROSE THEATRE, KINGSTON A celebration of contemporary literary and avant-garde European poetry as the closing event of Kingston University's Writers' Centre programme for 2017 / 2018.
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTed POEM BRUT MARCH THURSDAY 22ND : at Kingston University VISIT WWW.POEMBRUT.COM From this special event, the Writers' Centre Kingston programme shifts from themed discussion events to four innovative evenings bringing together multiple speakers and performers.
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT MAKING FEBRUARY THURSDAY 22ND AT THE MUSEUM OF FUTURES, SURBITON This event also marked the beginning of the month long Writer's Centre Kingston exhibition at Museum of Futures, entitled Scribbling and Scrawling, which runs FEB 22ND TO MARCH 21ST 2018.
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT MAKING FEBRUARY THURSDAY 22ND AT THE MUSEUM OF FUTURES, SURBITON This event also marked the beginning of the month long Writer's Centre Kingston exhibition at Museum of Futures, entitled Scribbling and Scrawling, which runs FEB 22ND TO MARCH 21ST 2018.
https://www.writerscentrekingston.com/pen Nearly a dozen contemporary English writers presented new works, each in tribute to a writer who is part of the English PEN Writer's at Risk programme, writers living under oppression around the world. http://www.englishpen.org Modernist & avant garde writers poets, novelists, playwrights and artists come together to continue English PEN's relationship with innovative contemporary literature.
Held at The Rose Theatre Kingston on January 11th 2018, the 6th event in the Writers' Centre Kingston programme saw new responses to the theme of Loving www.writerscentrekingston.com/loving
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT REMEMBERING on November 9th 2017 at Picton room, Kingston. with guest speaker Nell Leyshon with Winsome Pinnock and John Stuart About the event : The theme for this event was Remembering.
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT DYING on OCTOBER THURSDAY 26TH 2017 : / The Rose Theatre, Kingston WITH GUEST SPEAKER IAIN SINCLAIR ALONGSIDE ANDREW TEVERSON AND SJ FOWLER About the event : The theme for this event was Dying.
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT DYING on OCTOBER THURSDAY 26TH 2017 : / The Rose Theatre, Kingston This event will featured the launch of the first three pamphlets in the Writers' Centre Kingston Sampson Low series - new contemporary poetry by Kingston students.
WRITERS' CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTED A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT HOPING DECEMBER THURSDAY 7TH : MINIMA YACHT CLUB, KINGSTON WITH GUEST SPEAKER TONY WHITE ALONGSIDE HELEN JULIA MINORS AND HELEN PALMER, WITH READINGS FROM LUCY FURLONG, SARAH DAWSON, GALE BURNS. About the event : The theme for this event was Hoping.