Festival in a Thimble

Free the Word! Festival Highlights

With Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Mohamed Magani, Emine Sevgi Ozdamar, Sjon, Maureen Freely, Francisco Goldman, Faiza Guene and Cleo Soazandry 

If you can only attend one event at Free the Word!, step inside our ‘thimble' to savour the highlights. Set against the stunning backdrop of The Cut Bar, festival writers will read from their own work and each other's, in homage, thoughtful response or even feisty disagreement. A luminous embodiment of the festival theme, The Writer Next Door.