Events: What’s on and dates for your diary
Events: What’s on and dates for your diary
From intimate gatherings to bustling festivals, we celebrate the best in contemporary fiction at these UK events and pop-ups featuring our prizes’ authors and books
Meet the Booker Prize 2026 winner
New Writing North and Tyneside Cinema are delighted to invite the newly crowned winner of the Booker Prize 2026 to an exclusive event in Newcastle for their first public appearance following their win earlier in the week.
Last November, David Szalay, the winner of the Booker Prize 2025, was welcomed to Tyneside Cinema to talk about his novel Flesh.
This year’s event will be chaired by Sara Collins who was a Booker Prize judge in 2024. She is the author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton, which won the Costa First Novel Award in 2019. She is also a literary critic, screenwriter, broadcaster and podcaster.
Where: Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
When: 6:00pm GMT on Thursday, 12 November 2026
Tickets: On sale here.
David Szalay, winner of the Booker Prize 2025, at the ceremony in London
© David Parry for the Booker Prize Foundation