Spit Lit Festival

SPIT-LIT celebrates women's writing. Located in Spitalfields, East London, this highly accessible literary festival sets out to explore contemporary issues and genres with a diverse international line-up of novelists, journalists, poets, playwrights, comics and musicians.

Festival writers include Joan Bakewell, Clare Morrall, Sheena MacKay, Julie Myerson, Marina Warner, Hilary Wainwright, Jean Binta Breeze, Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Sheree Thomas, Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Linda Melvern, Suad Al Attar, Debjani Chatterjee, Rabina Khan, Denrele Ogunwa, Jean Buffong, Claire Dowie, Linda Wilkinson, Joan Blaney, Lakshimi Persaude, Reshma Ruia, Deborah Moggach and Hattie Hayridge. A series of writing workshops provides an excellent opportunity for you to focus on your creativity.