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Smithdown Litfest: Liverpool's Year Round Literary Festival

Smithdown Litfest: Liverpool's Year Round Literary Festival

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  • About the Smithdown Litfest
    • Welcome to the Smithdown Litfest
    • Previous speakers
    • A word from our patron
    • How to get tickets
    • Get in touch
    • Event venues: our current and previous venues
    • Local places of interest
  • 2026 events
    • An Evening with Roger McGough
  • The Big Read
  • Liverpool Book Club
    • Liverpool Book Club
    • Writing Place with Jeff Young and Catherine Cole
    • The Adelphi: a novel book launch
    • Murder Squad 25th Anniversary Online Event
    • Liverpool and the American Civil War
    • An Evening with Jeff Young
    • Rogue Agent: The Untold Story of Robert Bruce Lockheart
    • Horror in the Library with horror fiction writer Ramsey Campbell
    • Bodies in the Library with crime fiction author Margaret Murphy
    • Ken Dodd: The Squire of Knotty Ash and his Lady
    • Murder on the Mersey with top crime writers David Jackson and Luca Veste
  • Home
  • About the Smithdown Litfest
    • Welcome to the Smithdown Litfest
    • Previous speakers
    • A word from our patron
    • How to get tickets
    • Get in touch
    • Event venues: our current and previous venues
    • Local places of interest
  • 2026 events
    • An Evening with Roger McGough
  • The Big Read
  • Liverpool Book Club
    • Liverpool Book Club
    • Writing Place with Jeff Young and Catherine Cole
    • The Adelphi: a novel book launch
    • Murder Squad 25th Anniversary Online Event
    • Liverpool and the American Civil War
    • An Evening with Jeff Young
    • Rogue Agent: The Untold Story of Robert Bruce Lockheart
    • Horror in the Library with horror fiction writer Ramsey Campbell
    • Bodies in the Library with crime fiction author Margaret Murphy
    • Ken Dodd: The Squire of Knotty Ash and his Lady
    • Murder on the Mersey with top crime writers David Jackson and Luca Veste
  • 2026 events

    Protected: Outward Bound from Liverpool: Reading Malcolm Lowry

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  • 2026 events

    Literary Biography – Robert Louis Stevenson

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  • 2026 events - Previous speakers

    An Evening with Roger McGough

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The Smithdown Litfest 2026 is supported by:

The Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History, Faculty of Arts, Professional and Social Studies at Liverpool John Moores University

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