Events Calendar
Afsana Press often hosts literary events and book launches: watch this space for details!
2 Dec 2025
London
18:00-20:00
presenting THE LAST POMEGRANATE TREE
With Bachtyar Ali & Kareem Abdulrahman
Senate House
Royal Holloway Room 104
first floor
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
Closest tube station: Russell Square
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29 Nov 2025
Folkestone
19:00-20:30
presenting THE LAST POMEGRANATE TREE
With Bachtyar Ali & Kareem Abdulrahman
Beton Collective cultural centre
69 Old High Street
Folkestone CT20 1RN
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28 Nov 2025
London
17:00-19:00
presenting THE LAST POMEGRANATE TREE
With Bachtyar Ali & Kareem Abdulrahman
UCL
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
2nd Floor, South Junction
Wilkins Building
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
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27 Nov 2025
Manchester
16:45-18:00
presenting THE LAST POMEGRANATE TREE
With Bachtyar Ali & Kareem Abdulrahman
With harp music by Tara Jaff
University of Manchester
Samuel Alexander Building
Room: SG-16
Oxford Rd
Manchester M13 9PL
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20 May 2024
Presentation of Whispering Walls by Choman Hardi
Royal Holloway University, London
18:00 - 20:00
Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN
FREE EVENT
21 May 2024
Presentation of Whispering Walls by Choman Hardi
Waterstones – Rose Lane, Canterbury
15:00 - 17:00
8 Rose Lane, Canterbury, CT1 2SJ
22-23 May 2024
Presentation of Whispering Walls by Choman Hardi
University of Sheffield, Sheffield
18:00 - 19:00
Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN
Book here... Or just come a long.
24 May 2024
Presentation of Whispering Walls by Choman Hardi
Queen’s College Translation Exchange, Oxford
17:00 - 19:00
High Street, Oxford, OX1 4AW
FREE EVENT
17 June 2023
Presentation of Past Participle by Jane Labous
Café Z Bar Stokey in Stoke Newington, London
18:00 - 19:00
Café Z Bar Stokey, 58 High Street, N16 7PB, Stoke Newington, London
29 June 2023
Presentation of Whispering Walls by Choman Hardi
King's College London
18:00 - 20:00
K0.20 King's Building, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS, Strand, London
1 July 2023
Storytelling - in Poetry & Fiction with Choman Hardi
Writing workshop at the Poetry Pharmacy with Choman Hardi exploring narration through prose and poetry.
11:00 - 13:00
Poetry Pharmacy
36 High Street, Bishops Castle, SY9 5BQ
1 July 2023
Summer Poetry in the garden of the Poetry Pharmacy: Choman Hardi, Clare Shaw & Liz Lefroy
14:00 - 15:00
Poetry Pharmacy- Deborah Alma
36 High Street, Bishops Castle, SY9 5BQ
4 July 2023
Celebrating the Small Press
An evening of readings and discussion with authors and publishers (including Afsana Press) on the essential role small presses play in telling the stories of migrant. By Exiled Writers Ink.
19:00 - 22:00
At: Betsey Trotwood
56 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3BL
5 July 2023
Choman Hardi reading Whispering Walls
At Wave of Nostalgia
19:00
74 Main Street, Haworth, BD22 8DP
10 July 2023
An Evening with Choman Hardi and Helen Mort
Blackwell's Manchester
18:30 - 20:00
146 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9GP
11 July 2023
Presentation of Whispering Walls by Choman Hardi
18:30 - 20:00
Stanfords Bookshop
7 Mercer Walk, WC2H 9FA, Covent Garden, London
September 2023
Official launch of Afsana Press