23.5.2026: World Goth Day, Leeds Museum

Leeds Festival of Gothica are hosting a GOTHIC takeover on Saturday 23rd of May between 11am to 5pm at Leeds City Museum.

The event will be opened by novelist, poet and March Violet the iconic Rosie Garland. She will also be performing & has a stall with March Violets merch & her novels & poetry.

10.5.2026 – Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival

Join Rosie Garland, Barry Fentiman Hall & Jess Mookherjee for an evening of
Music, Gothic Subculture & Survival!

The Forum
The Common, Fonthill, Tunbridge Wells TN4 8YU

Sun, May 10, 2026 8:00 PM

https://twlf.ssboxoffice.com/events/music-gothic-subculture-and-survival/

28.4.2026 – Unzipping the Velvet book group, Chester
A free social group for lesbian and bisexual women exploring our representation in books, films, plays, music and more. With special guest Rosie Garland for our April meeting.

Duration 7.30pm-8.30pm
Storyhouse
Hunter St
Chester, CH1 2AR

26.4.2026: Patron of Body Positive, Cheshire & North Wales

Very proud to have been made a Patron of Body Positive, Cheshire & North Wales.
Who’ve just been awarded The King’s Award for Voluntary Service

https://www.bpcnw.co.uk/our-patrons

25.4.2026 – Hekate & Poems of Mythology, Lyra Fest
Venue: Watershed (W3)
Time: 18:00 – 19:15
Hekate & Poems of Mythology
In this magical evening of poetry and mythology, Nikita Gill reads from her spellbinding new verse novel Hekate, a reimagining of the forgotten origins of the goddess of witchcraft. With guests Rosie Garland & Emilie Jelinek.

19.4.2026: Heath Literature Festival, Birmingham
Author Event – Rosie Garland and Gregory Leadbetter in conversation with Jane Commane

Event Time: 11:30 – 12:30 (doors open 11:15)
Book signing 12:30 – 13:00
The Heath Bookshop,
Kings Court, Kings Heath,
B14 7JZ
This event is in collaboration with Nine Arches Press presenting two wonderful poets! Rosie Garland with her latest collection This Is How I Fight which encounters the wild and untamed, the creatures of night – and the beasts that lurk within us. Gregory Leadbetter with In The Infernal Garden, leading us into dark and verdant places of the imagination, the edge of the wild where the human meets the more-than-human in the burning green fuse of the living world. Rosie and Gregory will be in conversation with Nine Arches Press editor, Jane Commane.

The March Violets at Record Store Day.
On April 18th 2026, Jungle Records release our album ‘Natural History’. On LIMITED EDITION purple vinyl, it’s been unavailable since the 1980s.

14.4.2026: Roch-Tales writing workshop, Rochdale
ROCH-TALES: new writing for Rochdale

Roch-Tales is a literature commissioning and community story-making project for Rochdale in 2026. It involves communities in professionally-led creative writing activities alongside six brand-new commissions from established authors and a sound installation from Rochdale artist Maryanne Royle. The project will deliver seven workshops in seven libraries across the five boroughs of Rochdale and a final performance of the commissioned pieces.

Join Rosie Garland for a free writing workshop at Castleton Library, Tuesday 14th April!

10.4.2026: Cheltenham Poetry Festival
This is How I Fight: poetry and resilience – Rosie Garland and Holly Winter Hughes.
St Paul’s Church,
Cheltenham, GL50 4EZ

Two exciting contemporary poets read from new books that celebrate poetry’s power to empower and strengthen, even in the darkest times. Plus, please bring a poem to share in our poem mic.

Satellite of Love Presents: Rosie Garland and Rowena Knight
Wednesday 25th March
Loco Klub
Clock Tower Yd,
Under stone archway,
Bristol BS1 6QH