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PEN Events Schedule

6pm-9pm, Wednesday 8 July
Venue: 128 Kensington Church Street, Notting Hill, London W8 4BH
A high point of the summer calendar, the English PEN Summer Party offers a great chance to catch up with fellow members, hear the gossip and enjoy the vintage jazz rhythms of the Crouch End All Stars.

Tickets:

£15.00 Includes buffet supper and wine
Thursday 9 July, 7.30pm
Venue: St Margaret's Church, Westminster
WiPC/JAM concert in honour of Burma's political prisoners

Tickets:

£20.00
£15.00 Restricted View
Monday 13 July, 6.30pm
Venue: The Gallery, Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0EB
As this year's winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize is announced, past winners come together to discuss its impact on their lives and writing, and to consider the state of life writing as a genre.

Tickets:

£5.00 Members
£8.00 Non-members

Tickets can be booked through the website. Alternatively, you can book tickets by calling 020 7324 2535 or posting a cheque made payable to English PEN, along with details of your chosen event to Amy Oliver, English PEN, Free Word centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA. For queries regarding events or to join our mailing list, please email enquiries@englishpen.org.

 

You can read about past talks in our Recent Events section.

 

We are very proud of our rich history of literary events.  Speakers and contributors over the years have included:

 

Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, Beryl Bainbridge, Alan Bennett, Louis de Bernieres, Melvyn Bragg, J M Coetzee, Carlos Fuentes, Nadine Gordimer, Philip Hensher, Alan Hollinghurst, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Frank Kermode, Hanif Kureishi, Hermione Lee, Alberto Manguel, Anthony Minghella, Andrew Motion, Paul Muldoon, Philip Pullman, Michele Roberts and Salman Rushdie.

 

 

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