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Writing on the Wall celebrates writing, diversity, & storytelling through controversy, inquiry & debate | Liverpool, Toxteth
LCR Arts Organisation of the Year 2020
https://linktr.ee/WoWFEST Writing on the Wall promotes both individual and collective creativity. Writing on the Wall is a not-for-profit, social economy, organisation (company limited by guarantee with charitable status) established in 2002. The company was established to assure the continuing independent development of a festival that originated in 2000 as a Millennium Project sponsored through Liverpool John Moores University. Liverpool City Region Art's Organisation of the Year 2020

BHM26: 1919 Walking TourThis walking tour explores a little-known history in our city’s well documented past. The anti-b...
10/09/2026

BHM26: 1919 Walking Tour
This walking tour explores a little-known history in our city’s well documented past. The anti-black riots of 1919.
Inspired by Writing on the Wall’s hugely successful Great War to Race Riots archive project and the Black Lives and Legacies 1919 project in association with Liverpool University, this walking tour explores a little-known history in our city’s well documented past. The anti-black riots of 1919 were a watershed moment for Liverpool’s black community, the oldest in Europe.

Date: Saturday 17th October 2026
Time: 11am-1pm
Tickets: £10 plus booking fee

For more information and tickets, visit www.writingonthewall.org.uk

BHM26: The L8 Activism Walking TourThe L8 Activism Walking Tour invites you to take a stroll down the beautiful, tree-li...
08/09/2026

BHM26: The L8 Activism Walking Tour

The L8 Activism Walking Tour invites you to take a stroll down the beautiful, tree-lined Victorian boulevard and explore the rich history of Liverpool 8 — the traditional home of the Black community since the mid-20th century.

The L8 Activism Walking Tour culminates on the former site of the Liverpool 8 Law Center, an organisation which arose out of the ‘81 Uprisings and which played a key role in the support and empowerment of L8 and the Black communities and then onto empty plinth where William Huskinson once stood. Join us to find out what happened to him and much more history that you won’t find in books.

Date: Saturday 24th October 2026
Time: 11am-1pm
Tickets: £10

For more information and tickets visit www.writingonthewall.org.uk

BHM26: The Liverpool & Slavery Walking TourOn this tour we explore the many sites and streets with direct links to the T...
07/09/2026

BHM26: The Liverpool & Slavery Walking Tour

On this tour we explore the many sites and streets with direct links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Liverpool city centre. We discuss the depth of the city’s connections to the trade of enslaved Africans and the goods they produced long after its abolition in Britain. This tour also considers the legacies of the Atlantic Slave Trade, the origins of anti-Black racism and white supremacy, which in the 18th and 19th centuries were seen as justifications for horrific oppression and continue to encourage racial hatred violence in the present day.

Date: Saturday 10th October 2026
Time: 11am-1pm
Tickets: £10
For more information and tickets, visit www.writingonthewall.org.uk

This Friday (11th Sept) we have a session in Toxteth Library led by Guest Writer, Alison Schultz. Alison is one of the t...
07/09/2026

This Friday (11th Sept) we have a session in Toxteth Library led by Guest Writer, Alison Schultz. Alison is one of the team who run Wirral Poetry Festival (annual) & alslo curates/hosts a monthly performance night, The Wordsmithery. Currently the Wirral Libraries Poet-in-Residence, Alison is also the Ambassador for the National Year of Reading.

Her session runs from 11.00-13.00 - to reserve your place please email [email protected]

Episode one of Words From The Whitechapel is available now! In this first episode, Mandy Redvers-Rowe explores what it m...
03/09/2026

Episode one of Words From The Whitechapel is available now!

In this first episode, Mandy Redvers-Rowe explores what it means to become newly homeless, why homelessness can affect anybody, and how common misconceptions can prevent us from understanding the realities people face.

🎧 Listen to Episode One here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4byfYAV3Kk

We had a fantastic Writer's Bloc session in Toxteth last week exploring 'Structure'. Participant Feedback - " Found tod...
03/09/2026

We had a fantastic Writer's Bloc session in Toxteth last week exploring 'Structure'. Participant Feedback - " Found today's session very interesting and inspiring. Has helped give me the direction I'd been lacking for a piece I've struggled with by understanding the importance of structure."

Our next session in Toxteth Library will be led by guest writer, Alison Schultz and take place 11.00-13.00 on Friday 11th Sept and be focused on 'Editing & Redrafting Poetry.'

Please email [email protected] to reserve your spot.

The Writer's Bloc is back at Bootle Library this Wednesday 2nd September for Time To Write! This session offers dedicate...
31/08/2026

The Writer's Bloc is back at Bootle Library this Wednesday 2nd September for Time To Write! This session offers dedicated time and space to focus on your work.

Bring whatever you’re working on – flash fiction, poetry, memoir, a novel, essays, scripts or something entirely new. The goal is simple: to commit time to your writing within a supportive community setting. At the end of the session, there’s the opportunity (if you wish) to share your work, receive constructive feedback, build confidence and connect with like-minded writers.

Register here - https://writingonthewall.org.uk/whats-on/

Join award-winning author, poet and filmmaker Dean Atta for a special event celebrating the publication of his adult lit...
28/08/2026

Join award-winning author, poet and filmmaker Dean Atta for a special event celebrating the publication of his adult literary debut, Big Man — a tender, funny and deeply moving novel about love, identity, ageing, family and the lasting impact of trauma.

Big Man follows Big, a middle-aged Black British gay man living a gentle life in East London with his boyfriend, Little. Their world is one of friendships, holidays, yoga at home and runs along the Hackney canals. But when Big reconnects with Mother — an African American trans woman who provided a refuge for q***r young people during his youth — he is forced to confront a long-repressed experience from his past.

Full of warmth and gentle humour, Big Man explores what it means to grow older as a q***r person, and the ways in which friendship, love and community can sustain us. It is also a love letter — sometimes complicated, sometimes joyful — to the people and places that shape who we become.

Date 6th October
Time 7pm
Venue: The Black-E
Tickets £5
Book tickets on Eventbrite

Professor Stephen Small returns to Liverpool to launch Black History Month with a special discussion of his acclaimed ne...
28/08/2026

Professor Stephen Small returns to Liverpool to launch Black History Month with a special discussion of his acclaimed new book, Black Liverpool: ‘the real thing’. West African, West Indian and Afro-American culture at the end of the twentieth century.

In this presentation - based on his recently published book – Black Liverpool: ‘the real thing’. West African, West Indian and Afo-American culture at the end of the twentieth century - Professor Small brings to life the memories and achievements of the L8 community; and highlights some of the people and organisations that made them happen. Professor Small’s book draws on interviews with over seventy people and on information from documents and reports produced by the organisations themselves. This is a story that has never been told in full before. It is Liverpool 8’s legacy. And it is a stark reminds that no history of Black Britain is complete without a history of Black Liverpool.

Date: October 1st
Time: 7pm
Venue: Kuumba Imani Millenium Centre
Tickets £5
Book tickets on eventbrite

[Photo credit Dave Clay]
Presented in partnership with The Kuumba Imani Millenium Centre


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