FlipSide Festival, Framlingham, Suffolk, UK
Geoff will be talking about this new book Homework at the FlipSide Festival in Framlingham, Suffolk. For more information and tickets visit the festival website HERE.
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 talking about this new book Homework at the FlipSide Festival in Framlingham, Suffolk. For more information and tickets visit the festival website HERE.
Geoff will be at The Tabernacle in London as part of a great 5 x 15 line-up. For more information and tickets to hear 5 speakers, each for 15 minutes, click HERE.
Geoff delivers the 2025 New Statesman/Goldsmiths Prize Lecture, asking whether the novel is still ‘the one bright book of life’. For his talk Dyer goes back to the title source, to the claims made by D. H. Lawrence exactly one hundred years ago, in his eponymous essay, and look at how the novel – and […]
Two of the UK’s most original literary voices discuss their acclaimed new memoirs, Homework and Children of Radium, in conversation with critic John Self. In Homework, Geoff Dyer turns his razor-sharp eye to his own story as the only child of a sheet-metal worker and a school dinner lady in post-war England — from the […]
Triumphant homecoming! The local boy will discuss Homework, his memoir about growing up in Cheltenham, on 17 October. Geoff has also curated and will take part in 4 other events. For more information about his Homework event at 4pm on Friday 17 October, in conversation with Travis Elborough, click HERE. The other events Geoff has […]
Geoff will be doing two events at the UNCW Department of Creative Writing's 2025 Writers' Week on November 5th and 6th. For more information check the schedule HERE.
The Paris Review Presents: A Conversation with Geoff Dyer Capitol Extension Room: E2.010 (1100 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701) Join Editor of The Paris Review, Emily Stokes, for a conversation with author Geoff Dyer about his new memoir Homework, a vivid portrait of childhood, adolescence, and a changing England in the 1960s and 1970s. With […]
Geoff will be at the Miami Book Fair to discuss is latest blockbuster Homework: A Memoir, in which he recalls his postwar English childhood with comic affection. The son of a sheet-metal worker and local school dinner lady, he wins a coveted grammar school place, sparking a love of literature. From schoolyard scrapes to gig-going […]
A reading by Geoff Dyer in conversation with Hari Kunzru, followed by a reception/signing, with books for sale by McNally Jackson. Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance. Please click HERE. Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including Homework, The Last Days of Roger Federer, Out of […]
John Berger, novelist, artist, essayist and creator of ‘Ways of Seeing’, revelled in challenging preconceptions about art and society. An early populist oracle, Berger pioneered the reflexive and witty style that has become familiar in contemporary criticism. Geoff Dyer, bestselling novelist and critic in his mould, wrote his first book ‘Ways of Telling’ in 1986 […]
Geoff will be speaking at the Jaipur Literary Festival in January. For more information click HERE.
Geoff will be at the Kolkata Literary Meet in January. For more information click HERE.