Spoken Word Events in London
Find upcoming Spoken Word events in London. Browse Spoken Word shows, performances and activities happening across the city.
O Céu da Língua (Early Evening Session)
Islington Assembly Hall
Listen Party: th'sheridans + Nikita Aashi Chadha
The Skyline London
Rap & Poetry Open Mic
Morocco Bound
Free Practice 001
Pipoca Vegan
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Community Knows No Borders (FREE ENTRY) all-dayer
Reinstate
Voices of Rundane
The Space - The BRIT School
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Crossing Thresholds of Imagination with Art, Poetry, and Hypnosis
The Crypt Gallery London
Sarah Crossan in conversation at Waterstones Piccadilly
Waterstones
Poetry Night: The Amnesty Bookshop
The Amnesty Bookshop
SpitNights - poets vs singers
Number 90 Bar
Poetry in the Round at Hanwell Community Library
Hanwell Community Library
An Evening with Stephanie Sy-Quia - Streatham
Waterstones
Readings & Performance
Chisenhale Gallery
You were eating an onion… Poetry reading and piano improvisation
The Harrison
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Fingers of Flame: The typewriter poetry slam
Off Broadway
Ink & Inspiration Poetry Workshop
The Poetry Café..
Open Mic Night & WIN a studio recording session
Melanin Health & Wellness
Arcadia
The Old Vic
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Lyric Hammersmith
Speak n Spoke – A Night of Spoken Word, Music & Connection
Station Ten
Flow State - Spring Equinox Special, with Ruby Holder
Oxford House Bethnal Green
Corinne Bailey Rae in Conversation for Put Your Records On - O2 Centre
NW36LU
Creative Writing Workshop: I'm (not) Fine
The Hornbeam Community Centre CIC
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Open Mic Poetry at Trindle Stores - Saturday 21st March 2026 18:30 to 19:45
Trindle Stores
Clearing the Kitchen Table
Sands Films Studio
THE REAL PEOPLE
Chats Palace
The Writers Corner (in-person)
The Mill (Community Centre)
Storytelling Sunday: Gothic
Love Shack
I'm Every Woman
Hackney Empire
Poetic Unity
Fulham Pier
Why Shakespeare? Podcast - Live at Waterstones Gower Street
Waterstones
The Echo Chamber - connect with your creativity
The Bonnington Centre
An Evening With Part Time Working Mummy
21Soho
Public Speaking Practice - A Friendly and Supportive Group
EC3A 4AF
Sip & Scrawl - A Creative Writing Experience in Southbank
The Understudy
Atrocity Exhibitions Launch Party
Morocco Bound
Kavita Kafe - Hindi Open Mic
The Bhavan
Piano, Poetry, Pizza Presents: No Trauma Poetry
Trio Pizzeria
Soul Compositions : A Spoken Word / Poetry Open Mic Night
Thingy Cafe
Poetry @ Review: Hal Coase + Phoebe Eccles + Lavinia Singer
Review
Resistance Is Existence: The Fight For Our Future
Troxy
An Evening with Jill Dawson - Putney
Waterstones
STEFANO NAZZI: Indagini Live 2026
O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
Waxes Lyrical - Poetry & Spoken Word
Hot Box
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
First Draft
Soho Theatre
I'm Every Woman
Hackney Empire
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Hajar Reads: Memory
Palestine House
70 Years Outside Giovanni’s Room - Book Club: Hatchards, Piccadilly
Hatchards
Firepit Tales - Spoken Word Open Mic
Firepit Art Gallery and Studios CIC
Two Step - Live Music & Spoken Word
Big Penny Social
Open Mic Night: Solidarity Sessions
1 Addington Square
Reading Group: Postpartum Psychosis in Art and Literature
Peer Gallery
Poets in Putney - Poetry Open Mic Night WRITE OF SPRING/INTL WOMEN'S MONTH
Putney Library
Talk on Where Do Novelists Get Their Ideas?
St Mary's Church, Battersea
IHOH presents the 'Muckle Flugga' Paperback Launch
New Forms
SALON NO.132: Sex and Crime in the Wartime City
The Horse Hospital
Mike Joyce - The Drums - live in conversation
The Red Lion Leytonstone
2 and a Half Pigeons Poetry Night Featuring Live Performances
The Poetry Café..
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Egg Meat Album Launch
Vespers
Worship Unplugged: Gospel Open Mic Night – London | 26 March 2026
GOTG
The Creative Writing Breakfast at Poetry Pharmacy Friday 27th March 2026
Poetry Pharmacy
Paper Tiger Poetry
Tea House Theatre
"Rough Magic" fireside story telling for adults for the Spring Equinox
Lesnes Abbey Lodge
Habesha Open Mic Night
London Bubble Theatre Company
Tomasz Lis Brompton Oratory Recital Series
Brompton Oratory
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Spoken Word in a Gallery
Espacio Gallery
DARE TO SPEAK 11: Spoken Word & Poetry Night
The Libra Theatre Cafe
Forest of the Cosmos: Writing Workshop
The Libra Theatre Cafe
The Hearth Women's Writers' Circle
The Hearth
The Brontë Sisters: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey & more
London The Arches
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
The History of Mermaids, Sea Spirits & Women
London The Arches
We Love The Planet #3
Sebright Arms
Symposium: An open mic platform & a creative place to connect.
Galleria Objets
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Lyric Hammersmith
Hidden Women of the City of London
Archives
The Secret History of Medusa: Folklore, power & the ancient goddess
The Blues Kitchen Brixton
Luke Kennard & Will Eaves - Black Bag
Truckles
John Harris: Maybe I’m Amazed
The RSA
Belsize Open Mic
Belsize Community Library
The Pen is Mightier: Autobiography of a Punk Rocker with Edward Tudor Pole
80 Hill Rise
Poetry of Memory: Roots, Identity & Belonging – 6 Week Writing Course
Southlands Arts Centre
Say It Louder - Open Mic Nights
Love Shack
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Lyric Hammersmith
Poetry Open Mic Night
80 Hill Rise
SpitNights - pure poetry
The Ministry, Borough | Workspace & Members' Club | South London
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Hooyo's Voice : Echoes of Motherhood
SYA Brunchouse
The Writers Corner (in-person)
Wellcome Collection
ALEXANDER HACKE: BLAST - DISTORTED MEMORIES
Walthamstow Trades Hall
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Beth O'Leary with Daisy Buchanan at French Protestant Church of London
French Protestant Church of London
The Boyfriend Academy Book Launch
16 Sayer St
As If: Isabel Waidner in conversation with Ben Pester
Foyles
Msb Mario “El Niño de la Pili”
Hootananny Brixton
Poetry of Memory: Roots, Identity & Belonging – 6 Week Writing Course
Southlands Arts Centre
VERSES Poetry Night: April Special
Doña
An Evening with Róisín Lanigan - Streatham
Waterstones
Wayne Holloway-Smith with Rebecca Perry, Jane Yeh + poetry open mic
Lala Books
Love in Hyde Park - A Soldier’s Girl in Knightsbridge Barracks
The Skyline London
Love Letters: it's a match!
The National Archives
Deep Azure
Shakespeare's Globe
Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope
The Calder Bookshop & Theatre
The Farm Table - Julius Roberts - April Book Club
Morocco Bound
Creative Souls
The Bedford
Art, Poetry & Music Night! Open Mic!
Vaulty Towers
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
Roundhouse Three Sixty: SpitNights
Roundhouse
Writing In Progress - April Writers' Circle in London
Hammersmith Quaker Meeting House
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Lyric Hammersmith
Lunchtime Talk: English history through poetry
St Margaret's Church
Matt Johnson: In Conversation (with Jason Wood) + Signing
Cafe 1001
Transcription: Ben Lerner
St James's Piccadilly
The Ink Collective LONDON
The Skyline London
Within the Shop of the Divine: Poetry Reading with Mary Gilliland
Keats House
Poetry of Memory: Roots, Identity & Belonging – 6 Week Writing Course
Southlands Arts Centre
Fingers of Flame: The typewriter poetry slam
Off Broadway
The Creative Writing Breakfast at Poetry Pharmacy Friday 17th April 2026
Poetry Pharmacy
The Life and Times of Shakespeare Tour
Blackfriars
Mindful Writing Workshops
80 Hill Rise
Rant and Release - LIVE - with Sheyi Martins-Allen
Christ Church Acton Green
SHIFT+SPACE | Her and the Voice in Her Head by Lorraine Adeyefa
EC3A 4AF
The Writers Corner (in-person)
The Mill (Community Centre)
Spring Creative Writing Workshop
Spit and Sawdust
About to Fall Apart - book launch with Ashley Hickson-Lovence
The Volley - Old Street
Darkening Song Book Launch
The Social (London)
Steve Mason: In Conversation + Signing
Cafe 1001
How languages make us: explorations through performance
British Academy
Comedians Do Poems: Spring Edition
Review
Jaja's African Hair Braiding
Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
An Evening With Edward Chisholm - King's Road
Waterstones
Fairytales for Grown-ups: UNCANNY
Folklore
An Evening with Amy Jeffs: English Saints
Westminster Abbey
Zenith Collective
THE CAVE
Poetry at Lala Books: Michael Mullen & Peter Scalpello + open mic
Lala Books
Poetry of Memory: Roots, Identity & Belonging – 6 Week Writing Course
Southlands Arts Centre
I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll with Alan Edwards
80 Hill Rise
SpitNights | poets v singers
Number 90 Bar
Par Hum Desi Ho Gaye (Live) — Laughter, Poetry & Desi Nostalgia (in Hindi)
Pinner Village Hall
SHIFT+SPACE | Spicy White by Laila Latifa
EC3A 4AF
Poets and Prophets Performance With Live Spoken Word , Poetry and Music
St Mary Moorfields
Kip Kompin 10
Poplar Union
Forest Hill Stanza Open Mic
Forest Hill Library
Out in the City - Sunday Social
The Lower Third
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MIKE PICKERING - MANCHESTER MUST DANCE [In conversation + book signing ]
Walthamstow Trades Hall
An Exploration of Sylvia Plath, Poetry and Witchcraft
21Soho
Myth vs Reality with Natalie Haynes
Regent Street Cinema
Waxes Lyrical - Poetry & Spoken Word
Hot Box
Whitechapel Women: Beyond the Jack the Ripper Tour
Saint Botolph Without Aldgate
Poetry of Memory: Roots, Identity & Belonging – 6 Week Writing Course
Southlands Arts Centre
THE THE's Matt Johnson in conversation - Cognitive Dissident
21Soho
Headache
Village Underground
SpitNights | pure poetry
The Ministry, Borough | Workspace & Members' Club | South London
Étáin
Morocco Bound
The Writers Corner (in-person)
Wellcome Collection
May Creative Writing Workshop
Spit and Sawdust
William Shakespeare writers tour
Shakespeare's Globe
Word Space - Poetry open mic, writing workshop, words-based chill Kings X
Jamboree
William Shakespeare writers tour
Shakespeare's Globe
The History of Queer Folklore: Monsters, myths, gender and sexuality
The Blues Kitchen Brixton
Belsize Open Mic
Belsize Community Library
Poetry of Memory: Roots, Identity & Belonging – 6 Week Writing Course
Southlands Arts Centre
Roadtofreedomuk presents freedom nights open mic with Rtfeventsuk
Vespers
Wilde About Oscar : Famous for Being Famous (& INfamous)
Hat & Feathers
Creative Souls
The Bedford
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