Deptford Literature Festival At Home 2025
There are lots of ways you can take part in Deptford Literature Festival from home – from online writing prompts and exercises you can do in your own time, to reading new work by Festival writers and watching our events streamed online.
Writing prompts + activities
Writers and artists Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, Lucy Hayhoe, Jamie Hale, Annie Hayter and Karen McCarthy Woolf have created writing activities for you to do at home, based on their events at the festival. Get into the Deptford Literature Festival spirit with this set of brilliant exercises and activities by these brilliant writers and artists.
Download the Deptford Literature Festival at Home resource pack here (PDF)
Watch Festival events at home
Six of our events, listed below, are available to watch online. You can access tickets to these via eventbrite.
- Lewisham Lyricists curated by Emma Warren
- Disabled Poets Prize 2025 announcement with Polly Atkin, Khairani Barokka and Jamie Hale
- Meet the Agents, with Davinia Andrew-Lynch, Emma Leong + Emma Bal, hosted by Bobby Nayyar
- Meet Your Favourite Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors, with M.H Ayinde, Marve Anson + Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, hosted by Tasha Suri
- Chapters: Authors in Conversation, with Irenosen Okojie, Chris Bridges + Santanu Bhattacharya, hosted by Sara Jafari
- South London Storytellers: From Page to Stage + Screen, with Caleb Azumah Nelson, Nathan Bryon + Yolanda Mercy, hosted by Natty Kasambala
All the Festival at Home resources and online events are all free to access. We don’t want finances to be a barrier to people taking part. If you’re in a position to make a donation to support more people to take part in future Festivals for free, please give what you can through this link: totalgiving.co.uk/appeal/deptfordlitfest