Events

In-Transit—Displacement and Seeking Refuge as Seen Through Comics featuring Olivier Kugler

Olivier Kugler will feature in an exhibition this month over in Beirut titled, ‘In-Transit—Displacement and Seeking Refuge as Seen Through Comics’. The exhibition has been organised by The Mu’taz and Rada Sawwaf Arabic Comics Initiative at the American University of Beirut, and will take place at the Beit Beirut Museum and… Continue reading →
Martine McDonagh

Martine McDonagh – Talking Heads

Head to Halton Lea Library for an evening of conversation with three best selling female authors – S.E.Lynes, Naomi Kruger and Martine McDonagh – who will discuss what has inspired them as writers, the obstacles they have faced and how they have overcome them in order to be successful in… Continue reading →

Margaret Busby on Resonance FM

    Editor and author Margaret Busby will be talking to Resonance FM on the 21st March about New Daughters of Africa, her triumphant new anthology featuring over 200 African women writers. New Daughters of Africa spans a wealth of genres—autobiography, memoir, oral history, letters, diaries, short stories, novels, poetry, drama, humour, politics, journalism, essays and… Continue reading →

    The Myriad Literary Salons: an evening with Dr Ian Williams, Corinne Pearlman, Lizzie Enfield and Brighton Women’s Centre

    ‘Ian Williams is the best thing to happen to medicine since penicillin.’ Alison Bechdel Come along to our first literary salon of 2019, which will see author and GP Dr Ian Williams share his latest graphic novel, The Lady Doctor. Ian Williams explores current medical issues and ethics – and attitudes to drugs – with his… Continue reading →

    Elizabeth Haynes at Cromer Library

    Author Elizabeth Haynes will be at Cromer Library sharing her latest novel, The Murder of Harriet Monckton. On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent.… Continue reading →

    Sarah Lightman on Resonance FM

      Sarah Lightman will be talking to Jude Cown Montague on ‘The New Agents’ Resonance FM show. Sarah will be discussing her upcoming title, The Book of Sarah, and delving into the world of Jewish women’s comics.  Distilled from thousands of diary drawings begun in her parents’ garden shed back in… Continue reading →

      New Daughters of Africa at Essex Book Festival

      Margaret Busby and Leila Aboulela will be in conversation at Essex Book Festival. The event will be chaired by Sheila Ruiz, Deputy Director at Royal Africa Society. Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology Daughters of Africa illuminated the ‘silent, forgotten, underrated voices of black women’ (The Washington Post). Published to international acclaim, it was hailed as… Continue reading →

      New Daughters of Africa at Pages of Hackney

      Join Pages of Hackney as they celebrate our publication of New Daughters of Africa, a major new anthology of writing by women of African descent, with a discussion between chef and writer Zoe Adjonyoh, award-winning author Patrice Lawrence, writer and activist Zita Holbourne, and poet and storyteller Jane Grell. Chairing the discussion will be the anthology’s editor, Margaret Busby… Continue reading →

      Una at Laydeez do Comics Festival

      Graphic novelist Una will be attending the Laydeez do Comics festival. The festival will run the entire weekend, however Saturday’s events are ticketed and must be booked in advance.  It will feature one-to-one hour review sessions, including 12 leading graphic novelists as reviewers. Una has recently won the Prix D’Artemesia: Fight… Continue reading →

      Una at the 2019 BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival

      Author Una has been invited to take part at this year’s BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival. The weekend is entirely free and will feature provocative debate, new ideas, music and performance. Una is author of Becoming Unbecoming, a devastating personal account of gender violence told in graphic-novel form, set against the… Continue reading →

      Be the Change with Sohaila Abdulali

      Join Sohaila Abdulali, author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape (Myriad 2018), for a discussion on her new book at Porter Square Books, as a part of their March Be the Change event. Gang-raped as a teenager in Mumbai and indignant at the deafening silence on the issue in… Continue reading →

      Performing and Picturing Patienthood: Exploring Graphic Illness Narratives

      Graphic novelists Paula Knight, Simon Grennan and Ian Williams will be presenting their work at London College of Art at their upcoming event weekend – Performing and Picturing Patienthood. Myriad creative director Corinne will be contributing to an artist and publisher round-table discussion. How does producing graphic autobiography help artists… Continue reading →

      New Daughters of Africa at Cambridge Literary Festival

      Join New Daughters of Africa contributers, Candice Carty-Williams, Namwali Serpell and Irenosen Okojie discussing the groundbreaking and determined anthology at Cambridge Literary Festival.  The event will be chaired by Margaret Busby, editor of the title. Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology Daughters of Africa illuminated the ‘silent, forgotten, underrated voices of black women’… Continue reading →

      Cynthia Enloe lecture at Nottingham Trent University

      Author Cynthia Enloe will be lecturing at Nottingham Trent University as part of their PSA Conference 2019. The lecture will explore the theme ‘unsustainable politics in a changing world’. Cynthia Enloe is Research Professor in the Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, with affiliations with Women’s and Gender Studies and… Continue reading →

      Lisa Blower Fiction Course in Shrewsbury

      Author Lisa Blower is running a 6-Week Short Fiction Course at University Centre, Shrewsbury.  Courses run from 12.00 – 14.00 or 15.00 – 17.00 each Wednesday between the 1st May and 5th June 2019. With a sharp eye and tough warmth, Lisa Blower strikes a new chord in regional and working-class… Continue reading →
      Lesley Thomson

      Lesley Thomson at Newcastle Noir

      Author Lesley Thomson will feature on a panel at the upcoming Newcastle Noir festival, discussing her latest novel, The Playground Murders, as well as her impressive collection of previously published titles including A Kind of Vanishing (Myriad, 2007). This hugely popular literary weekend is in its sixth year and will… Continue reading →

      Sarah Lightman at the Upper Wimpole St Literary Salon

        Sarah Lightman will be in conversation with playwright Julia Pascal at the Upper Wimpole Street Literary Salon, hosted at Persephone Books by Nicola Beauman. The Salon provides a forum for women writers to meet and exchange ideas about ongoing work. They are a diverse group of over 200 writers from… Continue reading →

        Tony Peake at the Franschhoek Literary Festival

        Author Tony Peake will be taking part at this year’s Franschhoek Literary Festival in South Africa. Tony is author of North Facing, an exquisitely realised story which revisits a seminal boyhood moment as it plays out — with unexpected and sinister consequences — against the backdrop of political upheaval in… Continue reading →

        New Daughters of Africa at Charleston

        New Daughters of Africa (Myriad, 2019) is a major new international anthology celebrating the writing of women of African descent, capturing the talent and energy which is suffusing the contemporary literary landscape. Join editor Margaret Busby  at Charleston Festival as she discusses the unifying heritage of the contributors with award-winning novelist Diana Evans and… Continue reading →

        New Daughters of Africa at Brighton Festival

        Margaret Busby will be joining Candice Carty-Williams, Irenosen Okojie and Hannah Pool at Brighton Festival this year to celebrate the recent publication of New Daughters of Africa. Featuring women across the diaspora, New Daughters of Africa illuminates the richness and cultural history of this original continent and its enduring influence, while reflecting our own… Continue reading →

        Cardiff Creating Comics, Creative Comics featuring Sarah Lightman

        Sarah Lightman will be keynote speaker at an academic comics symposium at Cardiff University. This two-day single-panel event aims to explore practitioner and creator perspectives in comics creation and production. Sarah is a London-based artist, curator and writer.  Her artwork has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Sarah co-curated Graphic… Continue reading →

        Royal African Society: Africa Writes featuring New Daughters of Africa

        At this year’s Africa Writes festival, four contributors to New Daughters of Africa, Bernardine Evaristo, Nadifa Mohamed, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Namwali Serpell, join editor Margaret Busby in conversation to celebrate the global sweep, diversity and extraordinary literary achievements of Black women writers. Featuring women across the diaspora, New Daughters of Africa illuminates… Continue reading →

        Graphic Medicine Weekend

         The Graphic Medicine conference is back in Brighton. The event will be hosted by Brighton and Sussex Medical School at the Sallis Benney Theatre. Graphic Medicine 2019 is titled ‘Queerying Graphic Medicine: Paradigms, Power and Practices.’ They will be focusing on what it might mean to queer graphic medicine. ‘Queering’ is about… Continue reading →

        Creative Future Presents Meet The Writer: Lisa Blower

        Lisa’s stories have won The Guardian National Short Story Award, been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and longlisted for The Sunday Times Short Story Award. These and others are collected in It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s (Myriad Editions, 2019). ‘It knew exactly how to play with and exploit the potential of its naive… Continue reading →