WoWFest

Liverpool's longest-running writing festival, WoWFEST, returns in May with a line-up of famous names. WoWFEST: FUTURE IMPERFECT will take place online and in venues across the city, featuring such headliners as award-winning journalist Gary Younge (pictured), poet Hannah Lowe, The Responder creator Tony Schumacher, authors Ashleigh Nugent and Danielle Owen-Jones, and ... Read More...

Liverpool’s Writing on the Wall Festival (WoWFEST) – under threat of collapse in its 20th year due to the COVID-19 pandemic – has been transformed into a virtual event. WoWFEST: LOCKDOWN, which runs until the end of the month, will feature more than 20 events, including a range of famous poets, ... Read More...

Attendees to this year’s WoWFEST are being called upon to help eradicate the blight of food poverty on Merseyside. Writing on the Wall, the Liverpool writing and literacy organisation behind the month-long festival, has partnered with Fans Supporting Foodbanks (FSF). FSF is a volunteer run initiative created by Spirit of Shankly and ... Read More...

Liverpool's favourite cultural events returning in 2019 Familiar cultural favourites are returning to Liverpool in 2019, bringing another helping of exciting line-ups and unique additions. Words by Natasha Young Oyé on the way with another bumper line-up Popular summer festival Africa Oyé will fill Sefton Park with the music and culture of Africa and ... Read More...

Save the Dates: Liverpool's unmissable events and attractions We look ahead to round up some of the city's best festivals, events and celebrations worth booking into your diary. Words by Lawrence Saunders    WoWFEST 2018 to bring big names and timely topics Liverpool literary organisation Writing on the Wall is lining up a melting pot ... Read More...

Top 7 things to do in Liverpool this spring Music | Pierre Henry: The Liverpool Mass 13 May - Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral A special tribute to the work of one of the true pioneers of electronic music, Pierre Henry, at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The French musique concrète composer was commissioned to create an electronic ... Read More...

Drawing from experience Renowned comic illustrator Dave Gibbons has worked on some of the biggest and best known graphic novels and comic characters of all time. Having created the iconic ‘Watchmen’ with writer Alan Moore to drawing the likes of ‘Batman’, ‘Green Lantern’ and ‘Doctor Who’, it’s no wonder he’s been ... Read More...

A full programme of events for this year’s WoWFest has been announced. Dave Gibbons, Isy Suttie, and Holly McNish are some of the authors, writers and performers heading to the event when it returns to the city in May. Now into its 17th year, WoWFest is the longest running literature festival in ... Read More...