Only a few days left till Write Now! Book your tickets here.

Write Now is an annual showcase event sponsored by UEL’s School of Arts and Digital Industries. It showcases Creative Writing at UEL, bringing the talents of creative writing graduates, staff and special guests to the wider community.

This year, we are also launching the publication of EastLife: An Anthology of Life Writing, an on-going civic engagement project, which paired UEL students with East London elders to tell their stories and produce autobiographical and biographical life writing pieces.

The event will feature readings from this Anthology, along with readings from the new issue of The Gallion, our student-run creative writing magazine, published each year. Graduating students will be reading from a selection of their finest work. In addition, this year we have a very special guest: Linton Kwesi Johnson, who will be reading and in discussion with poet Tim Atkins. There will also be a Q+A with the audience. This event will be MC’d by Jacob Sam La Rose.

Books will be on sale during the interval and after the event. Some proceeds of sales from EastLife: An Anthology of Life Writing will be donated to Richard House, a hospice for children with life limiting conditions.

To book your tickets, please visit the Stratford Circus box office site. We look forward to seeing you.