Celebrating authors inspiring conversations
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
Allison Parkinson
28th May , 2026 11am to 12 Balham library
Allison Parkinson Story crafting workshop (suggested wording for poster/ event listing)
Join children’s author and illustrator Allison Parkinson for an interactive story crafting
workshop. She’ll explain why she wrote her Laurella Swift historical fantasy trilogy,
share writing hints and tips and show how everyday ‘treasures’ can help create
amazing story ideas.
Duration: 1 hour. Suitable for children aged 6-12 with accompanying adults
Robert Holtom
10th June 2026 6pm to 7pm, Putney library
Robert Holtom is a novelist and playwright. Their debut novel, A Queer Case, came out in June 2025. Set in London in 1929, it’s a murder mystery which introduces queer amateur sleuth Selby Bigge. Come and celebrate their latest release in the Selby Bigge series, A Morbid Passion.
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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.
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