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

16-21.3.2026: Arvon Foundation Residential Writing Course: Fiction
Drawing from myth and history
Tutors Natasha Pulley & Rosie Garland
Guest Speaker – Nikita Gill
Date Monday March 16th – Saturday March 21st 2026
Location – Totleigh Barton, Devon
Pat Barker said ‘History is then, myth is now’. As readers and writers, we turn again and again to fiction rooted in myth and history, always discovering newness. How can you infuse your own work with inspiration drawn from myth and history?

14.3.2026: Polari Literary Salon, Lancaster Litfest

Atkinsons Hall Café
The Dukes,
Moor Lane,
Lancaster,
LA1 1QE

Hosted by Paul Burston
With Rosie Garland, VG Lee and Max Wallis
Founded in 2007 by author and activist Paul Burston, Polari is a multi-award-winning LGBTQ+ literary salon. From its humble beginnings in a bar in Soho, the salon enjoyed a long residency at London’s Southbank Centre before relocating to The British Library and touring regularly across the UK. Come and enjoy an evening of high energy, thought -provoking performances at the Polari Salon.

25.2.2026: Voiced: Polari & Poetry in Manchester
Manchester City of Literature
Manchester Central Library
Saint Peter’s Square
Manchester M2 5PD
Wednesday, Feb 25 from 6:15 pm to 7:30 pm
£4 – £8

Voiced, the UK’s first creative festival for endangered languages, presents an electric and unmissable evening of Queer poetry.

14 February – Anti-Valentine’s Verbalise Special feat. Rosie Garland

Doors 7pm | Tickets £ 11 | Malt Room Cabaret Seating

This Anti-Valentines Verbalise Special features acclaimed poet, novelist and singer Rosie Garland of The March Violets. Rosie won the Mslexia Novel Competition with The Palace of Curiosities; her other novels are Vixen, The Night Brother and The Fates. Nine Arches Press publishes her latest poetry collection, This Is How I Fight, and it was The Observer Poetry Book of the Month.

The Prose of Mycock: Portico Fundraiser
Thursday, February 5, 2026
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
The Portico Library 57 Mosley Street Manchester, England, M2 3HY