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Paul Howarth is a British-Australian author and former lawyer. He holds a master’s degree from the University of East Anglia’s creative writing programme, where he was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship, and currently lives in Norwich with his family. Only Killers and Thieves is his first novel. ‘An outstanding debut…a powerful novel of crimes in […]

Explore decades of archives from Ambit, the magazine that helped discover and establish the careers of Edwin Brock, Carol Ann Duffy, JG Ballard, Eduardo Paolozzi, William Burroughs and many others. Featuring print and video art. Free admission – drop in at any time! Part of Ambit Day: Celebrating 60 years of Ambit magazine.

Gain the practical skills and insider knowledge to help you on your journey to publication. Our expert panel is made up of Briony Bax, editor of Ambit magazine; award-winning playwright, poet and librettist Dan O’Brien; poet and journalist Jade Cuttle; and author, translator and poetry editor of Ambit, André Naffis-Sahely. Free entry – please book […]

Limited availability Join us all in raising a glass of ‘Euphoria Bliss’ cocktail and enjoy a potted history of Ambit with host Briony Bax, editor of Ambit. Kevin Crossley-Holland, Helen Ivory, George Szirtes and Anthony Thwaite will each read the first poem that they had published in Ambit alongside some of their more recent work. […]

Are we really what we eat? What can our relationship with food tell us about society? In this debate, writer and cook Rebecca May Johnson will explore the pleasures and creativity of food; Ailsa Welch, Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology at UEA, will discuss her research into how diet improves health during aging; and Tim O’Riordan, […]

A stirring set of readings celebrating the launch of the widely-acclaimed Wretched Strangers anthology, published by Boiler House Press.  Wretched Strangers brings together innovative writing from around the globe, celebrating the irreducible diversity such work brings to ‘British’ poetry. Confirmed speakers: George Szirtes, Ágnes Lehóczky, J. T. Welsch, Adam Piette, Ethel Maqeda, Loma Sylvana Jones, Jeff Hilson Free entry […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

Join Norwich’s writing community for a free evening of conversation, ideas and support each month. Open to anyone who makes, reads and works with words, the Dragon Hall Salon is an opportunity to grab a drink from the bar, meet people, cook up plans and compare notes, to talk books, and to hear what’s happening […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

History, philosophy, musings, poems, and tales of booze, horse brasses and Morris dancers. Join Andrew James Brown for a warm lager or two. Taking Orwell’s 1946 essay as a starting point, this show travels through pubs great and small, through country inns and city gin-palaces, across parquet and sticky carpet alike. A must for anyone […]

Join us at Japan Now 2019, as Kyōko Nakajima launches her first novel in English translation, The Little House, alongside her translator. Set in the early years of the Shōwa era (1926–89), and combining the nostalgic memories of a maidservant Taki, with the nation confronting the brutal realities of the era to come, the novel […]

Linda Rose Parkes studied literature at University of East Anglia and completed an MA with Malcolm Bradbury there. She lived in Germany for 19 years where she taught in adult education and performed with songwriters and musicians. She continues to run poetry workshops in Jersey, her native Channel Island, was co-editor of Wavelengths, the first […]

Mobile technology has taken over the world. We use it to communicate privately with loved ones and to publicly display edited highlights of our lives. In this debate, Gerard Parr MBE, Professor of Computing Sciences at UEA, and writer Olivia Sudjic will address whether our increasing reliance on mobile technology is a vehicle for liberation […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

Women’s History Month Celebration Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. She is co-editor of tender, an online quarterly promoting work by female-identified writers and artists, and editor of Currently & Emotion (Test Centre, 2016), an anthology of contemporary poetry translations. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

Join Norwich’s writing community for a free evening of conversation, ideas and support each month. Open to anyone who makes, reads and works with words, the Dragon Hall Salon is an opportunity to grab a drink from the bar, meet people, cook up plans and compare notes, to talk books, and to hear what’s happening […]

Stand-up poet Laurie Bolger brings you stories and chats about comfort food, supermarket meltdowns, tea and pub love. Her warm and witty poems ask the big questions: how does that annoying passenger on the bus turn out to be the stranger that saves the day? Sometimes, when life is lonely, strangers give us the answers […]

As Brexit pushes the UK to redefine its relationships with neighbouring nations, we ask what borders do for us, and whether we need them at all. Daniel Trilling, journalist and author of Lights in the Distance, draws on years of reporting to build a portrait of refuge in a fractured Europe; Prof Sarah Barrow, Pro-Vice-Chancellor […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life as […]

Boiler House Press is a new publisher of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and everything in-between. They are based at the University of East Anglia, home of the world-renowned Creative Writing MA, and a burgeoning world centre for creative-critical writing studies. Boiler House are passionate about writing that breaks a mould; that surprises; that plays with-and-between the creative and […]