2025 Festival Programme

FRIDAY, MAY 23

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
TRUTH AND DARE
Memoir.. (re)claim your story
Alexandra Fuller
Safiya Sinclair

8:30 pm – 10:00 pm
WRITING A CONTINENT
Poetry from the African Poetry Book Fund
Mary-Alice Daniel
Thabile Makue
Mahtem Shiferraw

10:30 pm – 11:30 pm
TWO THE HARD WAY
Noir Fiction: The Secrets that lie in the heart
George Pelecanos
Harold Schechter

Midnight – 2:00 am
MIDNIGHT RAVERS
Live Concert featuring
Zac Jones
Jaz Elise
Mortimer

SATURDAY, MAY 24

10:00 am – 11:00 am
LOVERS ROCK
Short stories long on love
Alexia Arthurs
Mateo Askaripour
Diana McCaulay

11:30 am – 12:30 pm
REASONING Presents:
a Conversation
Marlon James
with
Paul Holdengräber

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
OPEN MIC
Hosted by Prof Carolyn Cooper

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
CALABASH CAFÉ SERIES
Publishing in the Caribbean
Hosted by Tanya Batson Savage

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
ALL MEMORY IS FICTION
The past is present
Jason Allen-Paisant
Candice Carty-Williams
Tao Leigh Goffe

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
REASONINGS presents:
a Conversation
Ian McEwan
with
Decca Aitkenhead

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm 
OPEN MIC
Hosted by Prof Carolyn Cooper

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm
LYRICAL FYAH
Poetry blazing & simmering
Caleb Femi
Kimiko Hahn
Danez Smith

10:00 pm – 11:30 pm
SO MUCH THINGS TO SAY
Fiction…Fantasy… Fact….
Hernan Diaz
Christopher John Farley
Shehan Karunatilaka

Midnight – 2:00 am
CALA-CLASH
DJ’s spinning under the stars by the sea
Bad Gyal Marie
ZJ Liquid

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