Past Events

2020

November

• 6th – 8th – Sharjar Festival Dubai 
• 12th – Todmorden Festival 
• 14th – Namibia Virtually Yours
• 21st – Dingle Festival, Ireland 

October

• 4th – Rome Literature Festival 
• 8 & 9th – Cheltenham Festival Events 
• 10th – Best Book Festival, Belgium
• 26th – Brixton Library 
• 29th – Colon and Dusseldorf 

August

• 28th – 30th August
  Edinburgh Festival (Edinburgh, UK)

June

• 12th – 14th June
  Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (Marback, Germany)
• 19th – Writing North 

April

• • 2nd
    BBC 3, The Verb, Media City (Salford Manchester)
  • 24th – April
    In Conversation with Fatau Diome & Leonera Miano (Vinceness, France)

March

• 6th – 8th March
  Festival Atlantide (Nantes, France)
• 17th – 21st March
  Time of the Writer (Durban, KwaZulu-Natal) 
• 28th March
  Words Weekend, (Manchester, UK) The Lowry, Studio 2 16.00 pm

February

•  3rd -6th Feb
  Boundless Africa: The Kennedy Centre (Washington DC)
• 8th-13th Feb
  Brahmaputra Literature Festival (Guwahti, India) Curtsey of The British Council

2019

October

• 2^nd Oldham Library TBC
• 4-6^th Cheltenham Festival
• 23^rd-27^th – Ake Festival, Nigeria

September

• 26^th Portico Library – Manchester

August

• 25th August – Migrants and Misfits – Edinburgh, Scotland.

July

• July 6^th – British Library, London
  Africa Writes Festival 16:15 – 16:45 pm – Manchester Happened by JenniferNansubuga Makumbi Launch of dazzling collection on belonging & identity between Manchester and Kampala from the award-winning author of Kintu. With Zaahida Nabagereka

• July 15^th Manchester International Festival – details to follow

• July 18^th – Waterstones, Gower Street, London
  The Short Story Salon

• 24th July – John Hewitt Society – International Summer School,  Armagh
  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi in conversation with Maureen Boyle

June

• 13^th – 15^th  June – Cyprus
  Commonwealth  Writers – Workshop

• 23rd June
  French launch of Kintu – Paris + Rennes

• 11th June
   BBC Woman’s Hour – 10 am BST
  Author event – Stockport Library 6.30-8.00

• June 7^{th –} In Conversation at obukiko.com

• June 6th – Blackwells Bookshop, University Green, 146 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9GP. An evening with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi where she’ll be talking about her new short story collection ‘Manchester Happened‘

2018

• 6 November – Visiting Speaker – Lancaster University, UK
• 6 October – Birmingham Literature Festival, Birmingham, England, UK
• 13 October – Black Writers Conference – Manchester, UK
• 24-27 October – Ake Festival, Nigeria
• 12-14th September – Windham-Campbell Prize ceremony, USA
  • Wednesday 12th – 5 pm –Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Elizabeth Alexander
  • Thursday 13th – 4 pm – Anticipating an Audience for African Writing
  • Thursday 13th  – 7.30 pm Prize Recipient Reading
  • Friday 14th Memories, secrets and lies: Writing on family
  • Friday 14th  Close Looking: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi on William Etty
• 15-17 September – Brooklyn Book Festival, USA
• 22-26 September – African Storytelling Summer School (Goethe Institut), Berlin, Germany
• 16 August – Edinburgh International Book Festival, Scotland
• 6-9 August 2018 – University of Capetown –  Andrew W. Mellon Foundation – South Africa
• Black Archives and Intellectual Histories Seminar Series: Narrative and Archive
• Department of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand – Conversation with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• 29th June 2018- Berlin, Germany
• 29th May 2018 – an evening of words with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Naomi Kruger at The Work Foundation, London, UK 7-9 pm
• 24th May 2018 – Spike Island Arts Centre, Bristol, UK.
• 21st February 2018 – Kintu Launch at Manchester University.
• 25th January 2018 -Following the successful launch of Kintu by Transit Books in the US, Oneworld Publications launched  Kintu in London.