From Monday June 3rd
2013 through Sunday June 9th
2013, the fourth edition of the very exciting Stoke Newington Literary Festival
will take place in London.
Stoke
Newington has been the home to many creatives and free thinkers, such as Daniel Defoe, Joseph Conrad, Marc Bolan,
Mary Wollstonecraft, and Edgar Allen Poe. This year’s edition of
the literary festival will stay true to its borough literary heritage with a host
of many debates including feminism with Caitlin
Moran, rewriting The Bible with Professor Steve Jones and the future of
Britain, but for the very first time, Stoke Newington will
also have a strong focus on graphic novels, science fiction and fantasy.
Included below are a few highlights from the Stoke Newington Literary Festival’s
programme:
1)
Renowned for his collaboration with Alan
Moore on the cult comic, Watchmen,
the legendary Dave Gibbons will be
talking about his career spanning Marvel, 2000AD and DC Comics as well as his current project, The Secret Service.
2)
Journalist, digital copyright activist, co-editor of the hugely influential Boing Boing blog, and author of Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow, will be in conversation
with Padraig Reidy, news editor of Index on Censorship, talking about
free speech, cyber utopianism and much more.
3)
Master of the horror-novel and author of the BFI Companion to Horror, Kim
Newman, is joined by fantasy, vampire and supernatural writer Freda Warrington, to discuss genre
fiction, silver bullets and stakes to the heart just around the corner from Edgar Allen Poe’s former home.
4)
Hosted by crime fiction aficionado Barry
Forshaw, Ben Aaronovitch, author
of fantasy series Rivers of London
and George Mann, author of the Newbury and Hobbes Series, take to the stage
to talk urban fantasies—where science fiction, fantasy and mystery converge.
5)
Following the success of his graphic adaptations of The Waste Land, Gulliver’s
Travels and TristramShandy, Martin Rowson, once appointed
‘Cartoonist Laureate’ of London, brings his famous energetic performance style
to Stoke Newington.
Expect a hilarious and possibly foul-mouthed guide to 37,000 years of visual
satire.
6)
Reads Like a
Seven comes to the Stoke
Newington Literary Festival to discuss video game culture and to dispel any
doubts that video games deserve to be considered alongside other art forms. Curated
and presented by New Yorker games
correspondent Simon Parkin, it
features the Guardian‘s Steven Poole, New Statesman‘s Helen Lewis,
and award-winning broadcaster/game developer and ‘best games writer of his
generation’, Ste Curran.
FBC reviewer Sabine Gueneret will be attending the event, and will report back later with her
thoughts and experiences. In the meantime, for more information on the fourth
edition of the Stoke
Newington Literary Festival, please visit the official website: www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com
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