Once again Off the Shelf hits Sheffield with its Festival of Words, and you’re in for a treat! It’s a vintage year. Running from 5th – 26th October 2019, there are workshops, art fairs and events with writers, including our very own Michelle Tea, Tim Etchells, and Hanne Orstavik!
We at And Other Stories will definitely be getting to as many events as we can and we thought we would share some of our top picks. Maybe see you there?
- Michelle Tea in conversation – Sunday 6th October, 6.00 pm
- Kerry Hudson in conversation with Dr David Forrest – Monday 7th October, 7.30 pm
- Live with the Sheffield Laureate – Otis Mensah & Guests – Monday 7th October, 8.00 pm
- Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities Series, Sheffield – Wednesday 9th October, 7.00 pm
- Šilalo Pańori: The Songs and Life Stories of Slovakian Roma – Jana Belišová – Friday 11th October, 7.00 pm
- It’s all Fiction – Six Authors: Rachel Elliott, Mahsuda Snaith, Julie Mayhew, Stephen May, Brian Bilston and Gavin Extence – Saturday 12th October, 1.30 pm – 4.30 pm
- Afropean – Johny Pitts in conversation with Désirée Reynolds – Saturday 12th October, 5.00 pm
- Sheffield’s Windrush Pioneers – Monday 14th – Friday 15th October
- Drop into the Book Pharmacy for Bibliotherapy – Tuesday 15th October, 12noon – 2.00 pm
- The Price of Coal Part 1: Meet the People – Tuesday 15th October, 6.30pm
- Kumukanda – Kayo Chingonyi and Tea with Cardamom – Warda Yasin – Wednesday 16th October, 7.00pm
- Jethro Soutar in conversation with Annalisa Toccara about Cape Verdean novel The Madwoman of Serrano – Thursday 17th October, 6.00 pm
- Some Ancient Suburbs of Sheffield – David Templeman – Saturday 19th October, 2.00pm
- Black, Listed-Jeffrey Boakye – Sunday 20th October, 2.00pm
- Out of the Woods: A Memoir – Luke Turner – Tuesday 22nd October, 7.30 pm
- Shearsman Poetry showcase of new works of Ecopoetics – Wednesday 23rd October, 6.30 pm
- The Book of Sheffield: Comma Short Story Collection – Thursday 24th October, 7.00 pm
- Hanne Orstavik, live linkup from Norway – Friday 25th October, 1.00 pm
- Kinder Scout: The People’s Mountain – Ed Douglas and John Beatty – Friday 25th October, 7.00 pm
- Tim Etchells in Conversation with Tony White – Saturday 26th October, 3.00 pm
- Find Me – Andre Aciman – Monday 25th November, 7.00 pm
Check out the full Off the Shelf events list, here