Speakers & Events

Hilary Term, 2025:

  • 47th Oxford Professor of Poetry AE Stallings in Conversation, University of Oxford Faculty of English, Lecture Theatre 2:

    11 Feb 4-6pm Tickets Available Now

  • Publishing Panel, Q & A, and Writers’ Soirée:

    Publishing Panel/Q &A at Old Hall, Mansfield College,

    Drinks to follow at the Wadham Room, King's Arms

    2 March, 3-4:30, Drinks from 5pm

  • Open Mic Night: All Genres Welcome:

    12 March (Details to Follow)

Trinity Term, 2025:

  • Writer in Residence Workshops and Talk: A collaboration with Mansfield College and Hertford College, featuring Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer prizewinner and former editor of The New Yorker Magazine: May, 2025

Michaelmas Term, 2024:

  • Peregrine’s Curious Collection Mini Book Launch and Young Authors Workshop:

    6 November, 2024: Curio Bookshop, Jericho 5-7pm  

    This event SOLD OUT. 

  • Podcasting Workshop with Members of the BBC:

    7 November, 2024: University of Oxford 5-7pm 

    Tickets are available now for a two hour workshop. 

    This event SOLD OUT.

     

  • Poetry and Prose Open Mic Night (all genres):

    18 November, 2024: Oxford Town Hall 6-8pm 

Past Speakers include:

Elif Shafak

George R.R. Martin

Mark Haddon

Members of the BBC

Kate Clancy

Jane Griffiths

John Osborne

Sir Philip Pullman

Anthony Anaxagorou

Sally Bayley

Camille Ralphs

and others.

Oxford Writers’ House hosts regular open mic nights, speakers, readings, and workshops across Oxford. We bring a diverse community of writers together to inspire the free play of the collective imagination.

Click through our gallery of images from past events below: