Crisis Crystal – Old Owl and Matt launch
Sunday 25 October 2026, 9 pm
Online, free. Link posted on the Crisis Crystal instagram on the day .
Robyn Skyrme will host a special launch edition of the Crisis Crystal online reading series on 25 October 2026 to launch his debut novel, Old Owl and Matt.
Robyn will be joined by Imogen Cassels, Ellen Dillon and Dom Hale who will all read from their work.
Free and open to all, please come and join us to launch this very special debut novel.
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Cultural Resistance: From Bangladesh to Palestine
Tuesday, 3 November, 6–8.30 pm
Proposition
279 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL
Reception Entrance on Cambridge Heath Road to the left of the big Proposition Sign,
Nearest station, Bethnal Green
Join us for a discussion on international cultural resistance, the legacy of the July uprising in Bangladesh, and what lessons are to be understood from cultural resistance movements, from Bangladesh, Iran, Lebanon and Palestine.
The evening will bring together cultural activists to share stories of struggle and resistance, to ask what responsibilities cultural workers, and institutions have in the face of censorship, rising fascism, and genocide?
Speakers include: Shahidul Alam, Sarona Bedwan who will chair the event, Rahila Haque, Taghrid Choucair-Vizoso and Maryam Tafakory for an evening of solidarity, short films and discussion.
This event is co-hosted by Artists for Palestine UK and Book Works, in association with Drik Picture Library, and supported by the British Council’s Connections Through Culture Programme.
More information here.
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Bad Omens at the Good Press
Tuesday 3 November, 6.30 pm
The Good Press
32 St Andrews Street
Glasgow, G1 5PD
Please join us for the Glasgow launch of Bad Omens by Luke Roberts.
Drawn from a decade’s worth of notebooks and journals, Bad Omens is a lyrical narrative of art and grief in a time of crisis. From London’s pollen-covered streets to wildfires in Idaho, gravesides in Paris to the Blackpool seafront, we greet a landscape of lost causes, unreasonable demands, and utopian horizons. It’s ‘the part of the century where we’re losing our grip’, and someone somewhere is owed an explanation.
With a reading by Caspar Heinemann, followed by a reading and conversation with Luke Roberts and Helen Charman, introduced by Hannah Proctor.
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DUMMY #1 launch
Wednesday 11 November, 2026, 7–9 pm
Small Press Futures Bookshop
Unit AG1 Bussey Building,
133 Rye Lane,
London SE15 4ST
Join us on the 11th November to celebrate the launch of DUMMY, a new literary journal dedicated to the difficult, the obscure and the overlooked. Published by Book Works, guest edited by Rachael Allen and Josie Mitchell, and designed by Rose Nordin.
The party will be held in the new Small Press Futures Bookshop – an experiment in cooperative bookselling from a collective of fifteen independent presses, owned and run by the publishers themselves.
Issue #1 contributors: Fatema Abdoolcarim, Batool Abu Akleen, Sarah Bernstein, Remi Graves, Jennifer Hodgson, Stewart Home, Mira Mattar, Taylor Le Melle, Huw Lemmey, Rey Conquer, P. Eldridge, Lucy Mercer, and Zsófia Paulikovics.
Preorder the magazine here.
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