2024-2026 Speakers & Events

Trinity Term, 2025:

  • Writer in Residence Workshop and Talk:

    An exclusive collaboration with Linacre College and Hertford College, featuring Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer prizewinner and former editor of The New Yorker Magazine:

    3 May, 2025: SOLD OUT.

    4 May, 2025: Discussion on Craft and Identity

  • The Peregrine Prize for Young Writers:

    Prizewinning Young Authors Met the Lord Mayor of Oxford for tea! 12 May, 2025

  • Stephen Fry in Conversation: 22 May, 2025

    Hilary Term, 2025:

  • 47th Oxford Professor of Poetry AE Stallings in Conversation: 11 Feb

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

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

    Drinks at the Wadham Room, King's Arms: 2 March, 2025

  • Poetry and Prose Open Mic Night (all genres): 12 March

Michaelmas Term, 2024:

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

    6 November, 2024: Curio Bookshop, Jericho: SOLD OUT. 

  • Podcasting Workshop with Members of the BBC:

    7 November, 2024: SOLD OUT.

  • George R. R. Martin in Conversation: The Sheldonian Theatre relaunch of Oxford Writers’ House:

    2 August, 2024: SOLD OUT.

  • Poetry and Prose Open Mic Night (all genres): 18 November, 2024

Past Speakers include:

Elif Shafak

George R.R. Martin

Mark Haddon

Sir Stephen Fry

Members of the BBC

AE Stallings

Jane Griffiths

John Osborne

Sir Philip Pullman

Anthony Anaxagorou

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: