Workshops & Events

Upcoming Events

Thu 14 May 2026
St Mungo’s Mirrorball
Waterstones, 153-157 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow G2 3EW
7-9pm

Past Events

Sun 18 Jan 2026
TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
7-9pm

Mon 5 Jan–Tue 27 Jan
Arvon Online Writing Month (evening): Writing the personal with Victoria Kennefick
Arvon Foundation (online)

Sun 23 Nov
Magma 93 Launch: The Liberation Issue
Push the Boat Out Festival, Edinburgh
12-1pm

Sat 22 Nov
Finding meaning, seeking consolation
Push the Boat Out Festival, Edinburgh
4-5pm

Sat 22 Nov
Holding On and Letting Go: Isabelle Baafi & Jessica Traynor
Push the Boat Out Festival, Edinburgh
11:30am-12:30pm

Sat 7 Nov
Light A Fire
BVI Lit Fest, British Virgin Islands
7-9pm

Fri 6 Nov
A Place for Poems
BVI Lit Fest, British Virgin Islands
11-11:55am

Mon 3 Nov–Mon 1 Dec 2025
Course: First & Last Lines Studio
[Online] The Poetry School

Sun 26 Oct 2025
Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
7pm

Sat 25 Oct 2025
Next Verse: A Young Poets’ Summit
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
7-8:30pm

Fri 24 Oct 2025
MUSHAIRA – Blue Pieta & Bhanu Kapil (with Kath Gifford) + Gabrielle Bates + Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed (virtual) + Hannah Copley + Isabelle Baafi
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London
7:30-11:30pm

Sun 19 Oct 2025
Reading with Isabelle Baafi and Falmouth Poetry Group
The Writers’ Block, TR16 6RZ
2-3:30pm

Sun 19 Oct 2025
Workshop: The Age of Invention
The Writers’ Block, TR16 6RZ
10am-1pm

Sat 11 Oct 2025
Debuts Panel: Isabelle Baafi, Erica Hesketh, Dzifa Benson
Winchester Poetry Festival, The ARC, Winchester
1-2pm

Thu 24 Jul 2025
Workshop: Poems for Survival
[Online] Tsaa with Roma
7-8:30pm

Sun 21 Sep 2025
Forward Prize Launch
St George’s Hall, Bridge St, Bradford BD1 1JT
2:15-3:30pm

Tue 2 Sep 2025
Workshop: Not to Scale
[Online] Verve Poetry Festival Zoom Workshop Series
7-9pm

Tue 22 Jul 2025
Poetry Book Society Summer Showcase
[Online] Poetry Book Society
7-8pm

Thu 17 Jul 2025
Isabelle Baafi, Rachel Trousdale, and Callie Garnett
Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, NY
7-8pm

Tue 15 Jul 2025
Bryant Park Reading Series
The Reading Room, Bryant Park, W 42nd St, New York, NY
6-7pm

Mon 14 Jul 2025
Reading Series
Franklin Park, 766 Franklin Avenue, 618 St Johns Pl, Brooklyn, NY
8-10pm

Sat 5 Jul 2025
Ellen Cranitch & Isabelle Baafi
Ledbury Poetry Festival, Burgage Hall, Herefordshire
11:30-12:30pm

Wed 2 Jul 2025
Workshop: Repeat After Me
[Online] The Poetry Society
6:30-8:30pm

Fri 27 Jun 2025
Ledbury Poetry Critics: A Discussion Panel
Ledbury Poetry Festival, Burgage Hall, Herefordshire
6-7pm

Sat 31 May 2025
Nina Mingya Powles and Isabelle Baafi: poetry readings and in conversation
Launceston Poetry Festival, Launceston Town Hall, Western Rd, Launceston PL15 7AR
2:45-3:45pm

Thu 8 May 2025
Out-Spoken: May
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
7:45pm

Tue 22 Apr 2025
Chaotic Good Online Launch
[Online]
6-7pm

Sat 12 Apr 2025
Celebrating Maximum Summer and Chaotic Good
Jeannie Avent Gallery, 14 North Cross Rd, London SE22 9EU
6pm

Wed 9 Apr 2025
Chaotic Good Launch
London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL
7pm

Wed 26 Jun 2024
Workshop: Transformations
Fusion Arts, Oxford
5-7pm

Fri 9 Sep 2022
Across Borders – Poems from the Commonwealth
Birmingham Hippodrome
1:30pp

Fri 9 Sep 2022
The Essay: Isabelle Baafi, Alvin Pang and Anil Pradhan
Birmingham Hippodrome
3:30pm

Fri 9 Sep 2022
The Verb with Linton Kwesi Johnson
Birmingham Hippodrome
8:30pm