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About Furzedown Litfest
Welcome to Furzedown Litfest!
Furzedown’s first literary festival was founded in 2025. The festival is the brainchild of a group of local residents with a passion for literature, created to celebrate the wealth of talent from this corner of South London.
Diversity and inclusion lay at the heart of this inaugural event. Writers came from a wide range of backgrounds and covered topics ranging from politics and espionage to neurodiversity and children’s books.
Upcoming Events
Furzedown LitFest returns on 15th May 2027 at Mitcham Lane Baptist Church for a full day of events.
Further details and tickets coming soon!
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COMMUITY EVENTS- We have been supported by the Arts Council England to put on events in schools, community centres, youth centres, and early years settings, as well as community writing workshops that we are running across Furzedown, Tooting, Balham, Earlsfield and Battersea.
We have been supported by the Arts Council to put on events in schools, community centres, youth centres, and early years settings, as well as community writing workshops that we are running across Furzedown, Tooting, and Balham.
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Past events have inclided Marni Appleton, Gordon Corera, John Crace, Kate Cunningham, Michael Donkor, Kathryn Faukes, Kes Gray, Hugo Greenhalgh, Alice Hattrick, Diarmuid Hester, Alan Hollinghurst, Damian Barr, Holly James Johnston, Elizabeth Lovatt, Saima Mir, Sarah Neville, Tom Newlands, Sandra Newman, Jason Okundaye, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Margaret Rooke, Liz Sayce, Sam Sedgman, Marcel Theroux, Nicola Williams, Zoe Williams.
