Birmingham Literature Festival returns with Uwagba, McVeigh and Bailey

Birmingham Literature Festival will run in October featuring Otegha Uwagba, Paul McVeigh and Casey Bailey as guest performers. 

The annual event is a project run by Writing West Midlands, the literature development agency for the region, and is an Arts Council England National Portfolio organisation. In 2020, it launched a podcast series when Covid-19 prevented the physical festival from taking place. 

Running from 6th to 9th October 2022, educator and performer Bailey will join guest curators and authors McVeigh and Uwagba. “With interests including poetry, politics, performance, journalism, short stories and education, the three guest curators bring depth and an enormous range of creativity to the 2022 Birmingham Literature Festival,” organisers said. 

The trio will work alongside the Birmingham Literature Festival team to create events which interest them personally, or speak to their areas of expertise and experience. 

The team is planning the 2022 festival and is calling for people to submit potential ideas for events and projects to programming@writingwestmidlands.org. For more information, visit birminghamliteraturefestival.org.