Marina Warner

Forthcoming

5 May 2026, ‘The Country of Words: Sanctuary in the Classroom’, Birkbeck Arts Week 2026

Julia Bell’s new book, Between the Lines, explores the creative writing class from personal experience of its dynamics. Marina Warner’s recent study, Sanctuary: Ways of Telling, Ways of Dwelling, proposes that imaginative story-making can build home and belonging. In the current climate of exacerbated divisiveness, anxiety about self and hostility towards others, Julia Bell and Marina Warner will hold a conversation followed by a workshop to explore the role that words and stories, writing and narrating, can play.
More information and booking available here
25 May 2026, Narrativa – Letteratura per l’infanzia oggi in Italia: Libri per bambine e bambini, ragazze e ragazzi (47)(2025) event, Biblioteca Salaborsa (Piazza del Nettuno, 3, 40124 Bologna BO, Italy)
Marina contributed an interview to the Narrativa journal issue 47 last year, which includes writing on Children’s literature in Italy. On 25th May, there will be an event in Bologna to celebrate and formally launch the issue. Booking and more information will soon be up on the Biblioteca Salaborsa website.

5-7 June 2026, JLF London at the British Library

More to be announced soon! See here for more about Jaipur Literature Festival

 

26 June 2026, Stories in Transit at Essex Literary Festival event – more tbc!

 

August 2026, Edinburgh International Book Festival – more tbc! Full programme announced on 29th April