Since 2018, MK Lit Fest has published 12 anthologies of the vert best of local writing: poetry, short stories and creative non-fiction. Treat yourself from our online bookshop today! www.mklitfest.org/mink-antholo... #creativewriting #poetry #anthologies #flashfiction #shortstories

We had a great book talk about The Walking Cure by Annabel Streets ✨ #booktalk #walkingcure #books

Finish MK Walking Festival with us and @TheParksTrust as local writers guide you through Howe Park Wood with words to inspire and delight. www.mklitfest.org/treeswalk #walkingfestival #nature #miltonkeynes

Finish MK Walking Festival with us and @theparkstrust.bsky.social as local writers guide you through Howe Park Wood with words to inspire and delight. www.mklitfest.org/treeswalk #walkingfestival #nature #miltonkeynes

Finish MK Walking Festival with us and @TheParksTrust as local writers guide you through Howe Park Wood with words to inspire and delight. www.mklitfest.org/treeswalk #walkingfestival #nature #miltonkeynes

Join us as we kick start MK Walking Festival, welcoming Annabel Streets to explain the value and joy of The Walking Cure www.mklitfest.org/thewalkingcure #walkingfestival #nature #miltonkeynes

Join us as we kick start MK Walking Festival, welcoming Annabel Streets to explain the value and joy of The Walking Cure www.mklitfest.org/thewalkingcure #walkingfestival #nature #miltonkeynes

Finish MK Walking Festival with us and TheParksTrust as local writers guide you through Howe Park Wood with words to inspire and delight. www.facebook.com/events/97013... #walkingfestival #nature #miltonkeynes

Join us as we kick start MK Walking Festival, welcoming Annabel Streets to explain the value and joy of The Walking Cure www.mklitfest.org/thewalkingcure #walkingfestival #nature #miltonkeynes

Delighted that @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social's Crowd Voltage is @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social Book of the Month: review below. See him with Isabelle Baafi in #miltonkeynes this Sat: tickets (inperson/zoom) on website. poetrypharmacy.co.uk/blogs/newsle... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry

Rising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

Creative Writing tutor Toby Litt offers advice, ideas, and tricks for writing better dialogue with greater ease and confidence. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #writingworkshop #writingdialogue @tobylitt.bsky.social

Social historian John Grindrod reveals the messy, moving, dark, and uplifting true stories of LGBTQ+ people living and loving in the UK’s suburbs. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #lgbtqhistory #lgbtqstories @grindrod.bsky.social

Fantasy and adventure with Ash Bond’s magical, mythical Peregrine Quinn series, as you discover legends, literature and ancient history along with creative activities! www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #childrensbooks #peregrinequinn #ashbond

Join Geoff Andrews to explore Labour's hidden history and radicalisms through the ideas of its leading thinkers. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #politics #labourparty #history

Rising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

John Grindrod's new book is a 'fantastically entertaining alternative history of queer life in Britain' (the Guardian). Join us Thursday in-person or online. Tickets: www.mklitfest.org Full review... www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... #lgbtqbooks #nonfiction #miltonkeynes @grindrod.bsky.social

Johnny Ball will always be an education: 87 years of Stories That Must Be Told! He brings his new memoir to #miltonkeynes on Wed 22/4. Tickets: www.mklitfest.org For a taste of what's in store, here he is on The One Show... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #JohnnyBall #memoir #books

Writer/broadcaster Jonn Elledge takes a witty, surprising look at world history through its borders, and stories they tell about political identities and human folly. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #border #geopolitics #jonnelledge @ouliterature.bsky.social

Green peer Natalie Bennett and novelist/sustainability guru Solitaire Townsend discuss how our stories about #climatechange can create a different, longer future. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social #climatechange #storytelling

Social historian John Grindrod reveals the messy, moving, dark, and uplifting true stories of LGBTQ+ people living and loving in the UK’s suburbs. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #lgbtqhistory #lgbtqstories @grindrod.bsky.social

Fantasy and adventure with Ash Bond’s magical, mythical Peregrine Quinn series, as you discover legends, literature and ancient history along with creative activities! www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #childrensbooks #peregrinequinn #ashbond

Rising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

"... webbed with longing, pain and queer possibilities." Don't take our word for how good Derek Owusu's #novel Borderline is. Here's a review from @bigissue.com See Derek with Madeleine Dunnigan next Sat in #miltonkeynes tickets on website. www.bigissue.com/culture/book... #fiction

Poem of the week at @faberbooks.bsky.social is The Way You Say Pen by Isabelle Baafi, who'll be reading for us in-person on or livestream next Saturday - tickets available on our website. #isabellebaafi #poetry #miltonkeynes www.faber.co.uk/journal/poem...

My Milton Keynes event is part of the brilliant @mklitfest.bsky.social www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev...

Legendary presenter and entertainer Johnny Ball shares moments of laughter and adventure from his memoir Stories That Must Be Told. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #johnnyball #storiesthatmustbetold #memoir

Join Milton Keynes fabulous festival this April, we have a jam packed programme for all literature lovers. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... Workshops, conversations, an interactive poetry story map, awards, anthology book launch and design a hero in our kids workshops!

TV Legend Johnny Ball is opening MK Lit Fest on 22 April at Waterstones Milton Keynes, sharing Stories That Must Be Told! Once an entertainer, always an entertainer... Tickets: mklitfest.org #johnnyball #memoir #storiesthatmustbetold #books

The finest recent poems, stories and non-fiction about the places of our home city, with the finest local writers! www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #raisinvoicesmk #poems #shortstories #miltonkeynes

Join us as we announce the winners of our 2026 Writing Competition, and launch issue 6 of our fabulous #MinK anthology. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #mink #creativewriting #anthologies #poems #flashfiction #miltonkeynes

A two-hour writing workshop with Simon Maddrell, helping you mine personal memories to create powerful new poems and stories. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... @simonmaddrell.bsky.social #writingworkshop #miningmemories

Learn how to write for TV, film and radio with playwright, EastEnders scriptwriter, lecturer and poet James McDermott. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #writingworkshop #writingforbroadcast #jamesmcdermott

Written a book? Learn how to write the perfect summary for sending to agents and publishers with writer and editor Aki Schilz www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #writingworkshop #writingsynopsis

What makes someone cross a moral line into crime? Bestselling crime novelist Ruth Mancini and award-winning criminologist Prof David Wilson explore the criminal mind as true crime meets gripping fiction. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev...

Join Harriet Tyce – Sunday Times bestseller and Traitors star – for a thrilling evening of #crimefiction with international bestseller Sarah Pinborough. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... @sarahpinborough.bsky.social #harriettyce #crimefiction #traitorsuk

Green peer Natalie Bennett and novelist/sustainability guru Solitaire Townsend discuss how our stories about #climatechange can create a different, longer future. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social #climatechange #storytelling

Discover exciting tales with Nizrana Farook, bestselling author of The Boy Who Saved a Bear and stories of courage, daring escape and hidden treasure inspired by her Sri Lankan childhood. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #childrensbooks #theboywhosavedabear #nizranafarook

Fantasy and adventure with Ash Bond’s magical, mythical Peregrine Quinn series, as you discover legends, literature and ancient history along with creative activities! www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #childrensbooks #peregrinequinn #ashbond

Join Matty Long and learn how to draw characters from Croaky! You’ll design your own hero, and start creating exciting stories. (5+) www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #childrensbooks #croaky @superhappymatty.bsky.social @oxfordchildrens.bsky.social

Rising authors Derek Owusu and Madeleine Dunnigan bring fresh takes to the coming of age novel. Hear them in conversation about their novels, inspirations and writing. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #fiction #novels @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

Award-winning poets Isabelle Baafi and John McCullough explore identify, togetherness and separation, and the human search for joy. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev...

Podcasts of episodes 1 - 4 of our Borders and Literature series now available. Episode 5 (in-person/online) with Jonn Elledge follows on 24 April at @WaterstonesMK Info/tickets: www.mklitfest.org/borders #borders @jonnelledge.bsky.social #geopolitics @ouliterature.bsky.social

Creative Writing tutor Toby Litt offers advice, ideas, and tricks for writing better dialogue with greater ease and confidence. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #writingworkshop #writingdialogue @tobylitt.bsky.social

Join Geoff Andrews to explore Labour's hidden history and radicalisms through the ideas of its leading thinkers. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #politics #labourparty #history

Writer/broadcaster Jonn Elledge takes a witty, surprising look at world history through its borders, and stories they tell about political identities and human folly. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #border #geopolitics #jonnelledge @ouliterature.bsky.social

Social historian John Grindrod reveals the messy, moving, dark, and uplifting true stories of LGBTQ+ people living and loving in the UK’s suburbs. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #lgbtqhistory #lgbtqstories @grindrod.bsky.social

Join us as we announce the winners of our 2026 Writing Competition, and launch issue 6 of our fabulous #MinK anthology. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #mink #creativewriting #anthologies #poems #flashfiction #miltonkeynes

Legendary presenter and entertainer Johnny Ball shares moments of laughter and adventure from his memoir Stories That Must Be Told. www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #johnnyball #storiesthatmustbetold #memoir

The finest recent poems, stories and non-fiction about the places of our home city, with the finest local writers! www.mklitfest.org/in-person-ev... #raisinvoicesmk #poems #shortstories #miltonkeynes