Welcome to the events page. Here you will find a list of Geoff's upcoming speaking engagements with links to buy tickets if necessary.
Geoff will be taking part in Lisboa 5L, in conversation with Isabel Lucas on May 9th at 8pm. Journalist Isabel Lucas talks with Geoff Dyer, British novelist and essayist. Author of critical-memoiristic works on a wide variety of topics (John Berger, World War I, tennis, jazz, cinema, D.H. Lawrence, literature, drugs, photography), frequently translated into […]
What makes an artwork unforgettable? Is it beauty, shock, technique, politics, or something more personal and harder to define? In this art-focused 5x15, five leading cultural figures will each deliver a 15-minute talk on an artwork that holds particular significance for them. Taking one artwork as a starting point, each speaker will open up a […]
Geoff will be taking part in the ZEG Storytelling Festival in Tbilisi from June 19-21 with 3 different events on Friday 19 June at 1pm, Saturday 20 June at 5pm, Sunday 21st June at 3pm. For more information about the programme click HERE.
Geoff will be taking part at the Il Libro Possibile, Vieste, in Italy in July 2026. For more information visit the festival website.
The shortlist for the TLS Ackerley Prize 2026 for memoir and autobiography has been announced: Joe Dunthorne, Children of Radium (Hamish Hamilton) Geoff Dyer, Homework (Canongate) Charlotte Northall, Practicing Dying (Pilot Press) The winner of the Prize will be announced at a special event featuring the shortlisted authors in conversation with the chair of the […]
Geoff will be taking part at the Festival della Mente, Sarzana, Italy, on Saturday 6 September. For more information visit the festival website.
Geoff will be taking part at the Festivaletteratura 2026, Mantova, Italy in September. He has events on Wednesday 9 September and Thursday 10 September. For more information visit the festival website.
Five cultural figures each deliver a fifteen-minute talk exploring Venice through art, literature, history and design. In support of Venice in Peril Fund’s Acqua Granda Appeal. For more information and to book tickets visit 5 x 15's website. Date and time Tue, 15 September 7:00pm Location 1 Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London SW7 2AR
Geoff will be at the Athenaeum Bookstore in Amsterdam on Tuesday 22 September to talk about of his memoir Homework and the new edition of But Beautiful, a book about jazz. For more information and to book tickets visit the bookstore website HERE. The event starts at 5.30pm.
Jazz? Avant-garde? Ambient? The legendary Australian cult trio The Necks has been improvising for 40 years with a unique, distinctive sound. Chris Abrahams (piano), Tony Buck (drums) and Lloyd Swanton (bass) have perfected their unconventional sound over the course of eighteen albums: long pieces that unfold in an enchanting manner, carried along by a sustained, […]
British writer Geoff Dyer, avid fan of The Necks, will be in conversation with fellow author Colin Walsh ahead of the Australian band's performance at CCHA (buy your tickets here) . Geoff Dyer is one of the greatest daredevils in British literature. He stubbornly refuses to write a similar book twice and constantly treads new […]
Typographia is a new one-day celebration of books, magazines and the enduring pleasures of print brought to you by Libreria, one of London's most acclaimed independent bookshops. Geoff will be talking at the event on Saturday 26 September at 4pm. For more information and to buy tickets visit the book fair website.