All readers
The Open Reading Room
A hosted online evening where Fourth Group authors share new work and join a thoughtful audience conversation.
Community access
Fourth Group programme
Literary events
Readings, practical workshops and book conversations designed to bring writers and attentive readers into the same room.
Ways to take part
A programme built around the work
Each format has a clear purpose: to share new writing, strengthen a manuscript or open a considered conversation around books.
Writers
The Working Draft
A practical craft session built around one question of structure, voice, revision or publishing preparation.
Member priority
Authors and readers
Books in Conversation
A close conversation with an author about the choices, research and lived experience behind a book.
Community access
Coming to the programme
Events in preparation
Dates and booking details will be announced when each session is confirmed.
Reading
To be announced
New Voices Across Borders
An evening of short readings from fiction, poetry and memoir writers in the Fourth Group community.
Online
Workshop
To be announced
The Architecture of an Opening Page
A focused session on narrative promise, clarity and momentum in the first page of a manuscript.
Online workshop
Author conversation
To be announced
Writing Public History Through Private Lives
Novelists discuss the research and ethical choices involved in turning historical records into intimate stories.
Online conversation
Screen stories
To be announced
From Book Premise to Adaptation Pitch
A practical discussion of loglines, visual stakes, rights information and the screen reader’s first questions.
Online panel
Community forum
To be announced
The Independent Author’s Working Table
A candid exchange about publishing routes, building readership and sustaining a long writing life.
Online roundtable
Bring a Fourth Group event to your community
Libraries, festivals, bookshops and writing groups can contact our team about a reading, conversation or practical workshop.
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