Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

7 Mar 2026, 10.30-11.30am Forthwrite Festival, Writing Place Workshop, Jubilee Library, Jubilee Street, Brighton, BN1 1GE.

7 Mar, 2.30-3.30pm, Forthwrite Festival, Writing from Experience Panel, The Old Courtroom, 118 Church Street, Brighton, BN1 1UD.

26 May 2026, Barnes Literary Society, London.

PAST EVENTS

20 Nov 2025, Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition Reception, St James Palace.

19 Nov 2025, Gliterary Lunch with Lynda La Plante, The Grand Connaught Rooms, London.

9 Nov 2025, Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2025 Award Ceremony, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Black Butterflies awarded Fiction Runner-up.

8 Nov 2025, 4pm ET, Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2025 Conversation with the Authors, Victoria Theatre, Dayton, Ohio.

18-24 Oct 2025, Autumn Writing Retreat with PRISCILLA MORRIS, Romanyà de la Selva, Catalonia, Spain.

17 Oct 2025, 6.30pm India Time (1pm GMT) Conversation between Priscilla Morris and Sonya Dutta Choudary, Online. Email sonyasbookclub@gmail.com for link.

11 Jun 2025, Creating Place and Atmosphere with PRISCILLA MORRIS, Women’s Prize Live, Bedford Square Gardens, WC1, London.

28 May 2025, In Search of Sarajevo: Creating Place and Atmosphere in Black Butterflies, ‘Creating Worlds, real and imagined. Place Writing in creative prose’ creative writing symposium, Open University. Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.

23 April 2025, 4-9pm CET, Sant Jordi signings, Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona.

20 Mar 2025, 6pm GMT, Author Q&A on Black Butterflies, Shelter Box Book Club. Online event.

17 Mar 2025, 6pm CET, Backstory Talks: Priscilla Morris, Backstory English Bookshop, Carrer de Mallorca, 330, L’Eixample, 08037 Barcelona.

13 Mar 2025. 7.30-9pm CET. Book Club at L’Espolsada Bookshop, Pl. de l’Espolsada, 8, 08520 Les Franqueses del Vallès, Barcelona.

6 Mar 2025, 6-7pm EST, Women’s History Month: Literary Thursdays: Priscilla Morris, Author of Black Butterflies, Literary Thursdays, Queens Public Library, New York. Free virtual event.

14 Feb 2025, 6-7.30pm CET, Priscilla Morris in conversation with Simona Škrabec discussing Literature and Memory in the Balkans to launch Las Mariposas de Sarajevo (Duomo) and Papallones Negres (Periscopi), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Carrer de Montalegre, 5, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona.

12 Oct 2024, 7pm, “L’arte fermerà le guerre”: Priscilla Morris “Le farfalle di Sarajevo” (Neri Pozza), Un Mare di Racconti Festival, Barcolana, Trieste, Italy.

24 Aug 2024, 7.30pm, Night Owl Book Club: Priscilla Morris and Leo Vardiashvili, Dukes of West Barns, 5 Duke Street, Dunbar, EH42 1UR.

16 Jul 2024, 8.30pm, Hisham Matar and Priscilla Morris discuss My Friends and Black Butterflies, The Maritime Hotel, West Cork Literary Festival.

15-17 Jul 2024, 9.30am-2.30pm each day. Novel Writing Workshop, West Cork Literary Festival.

11 Jun 2024, 6.30pm. Debut Fiction Panel: Hanako Footman, Aube Rey Lescure and Priscilla Morris, Waterstones Birmingham.

31 May 2024, 5.30pm. Priscilla Morris and Elif Shafak talk to Paul Boateng. Event 283. Beyond conflict: the role of libraries in rebuilding societies, Book Aid International, Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye.

30 Apr 2024, 6.30-8pm. Mardis littéraires with Priscilla Morris. In collaboration with ‘Between the Lines’. Organised by the City of Luxembourg. Auditorium, Cercle Cité, Luxembourg.

22-23 Mar 2024, Festival debut author for Alderney Literature Festival.

20 Mar 2024, 5-7pm, Literary Salon Guest Author, University of East Anglia.

15 Mar 2024, 6-8pm, Black Butterflies Online Bookclub with Priscilla Morris, Northeastern University, London.

16 Jan 2024. 6.30-8.30pm. Beginnings: A Writing Workshop with Priscilla Morris. Online Women’s Prize Event.

10 Jan 2024, 7pm. Hisham Matar in conversation with Priscilla Morris to discuss Matar’s latest novel My Friends. Daunt Books, Marylebone, London.

9, 16, 23 Nov, 7, 14 Dec 2023. Thursdays, 7-9pm. ONLINE 5-week Short Course: Writing in Response to Personal & Contemporary History. Writing West Midlands.

27 Nov 2023, 6pm. Inaugural event of ‘UCD Writers in Conversation’. In conversation with author Sarah Moss about Black Butterflies. Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin.

14 Nov 2023, 7pm. Priscilla Morris on researching Black Butterflies. Barnet Library Event, London. Online.

31 Oct 2023, 7.15pm. Front Row, BBC Radio 4. Dragana Smart and Priscilla Morris talk to Samira Ahmed about Dobrivoje Beljkašic’s art, the Dobri100 project and how his story inspired Black Butterflies. Listen here.

18 Oct 2023, 6.30-10.30pm. Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize Award Ceremony. The Royal Geographical Society, London.

27 Sep 2023, 2-3.30pm. Talk on Black Butterflies. World Literature Series, Queens University Belfast.

23 Sep 2023, 2pm. Priscilla Morris and Jacqueline Crooks in conversation with Harriett Gilbert. Barnes Bookfest, London.

16 Sep 2023, 7.30pm. An Evening of Book Talk with Priscilla Morris. Tertulia Bookshop, Westport, County Mayo, Ireland.

9 Sep 2023, 10.30am-4.30pm. Journey of a Debut Novel. One-day Workshop for Professional Development. Irish Writers Centre, Dublin.

4 Sep 2023, 6pm. Nota Bene Prize Award Ceremony, Refettorio Felix, St Cuthbert’s Centre, London.

28 Jul 2023, 2.45pm. Introducing Dazzling Debuts: Michael Magee and Priscilla Morris in conversation with Jan Carson. John Hewitt International Summer School, Literary Festival of Literature, Politics & Ideas, Armagh, Northern Ireland.

20 Jul 2023, 7pm Spanish time, 6pm BST/IST. Priscilla Morris in Conversation with Hannah Murray, The TRE Book Show, Talk Radio Europe.

18 Jul 2023, 1pm. Priscilla Morris and Natasha Pulley in Conversation Online. Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize.

6 Jul 2023, 7-8.15pm. International Literature Festival Bookstan Sarajevo, Bosnia. ‘No East. No West.’ Theme: Imagining the Balkans. Presentation of Black Butterflies. In conversation with Dunja Ilić.

14 Jun 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner Announced, Bedford Square.

13 Jun 2023 Shortlist Reading from 6pm at Women’s Prize Live 12pm-9pm. Bedford Square Gardens, London, WC1B 5BL.

6 Jun 2023. Birmingham International Literary Salon. Katixa Agirre in conversation with Priscilla Morris.

30 May 2023, 7.15pm. Front Row, BBC Radio 4. Talking to Samira Ahmed about Black Butterflies.

24 May 2023. Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award Dinner.

22 May 2023, 7-8.30pm, Women’s Prize for Fiction: Shortlist Book Club Online. Barbara Kingsolver + Priscilla Morris, chaired by Kate Mosse.

10 May 2023. Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Dinner.

30 Apr 2023, 7pm. Online Q&A. Night Owl Books, East Linton, Scotland.

20 Apr 2023, 7 pm. QP Fringe: Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 Author Talk: Cecile Pin and Priscilla Morris in conversation with Kate Leaver at The Hearth, Queen’s Park, London and online.

8 Apr 2023, 6.30-8.30pm. Parade’s End Books, 406 Richmond Road, Kingston-upon-Thames. An Evening with Priscilla Morris.

7 Feb 2023. Birmingham International Literary Salon. Lana Bastašić in conversation with Priscilla Morris.

9 Oct 2022. Birmingham Literature Festival. Writing from a Warzone: Bosnia, Afghanistan and Ukraine. In conversation with Afghan poet Parwana Fayyaz and Ukrainian novelist Lyubko Deresh about creative responses to war. Chaired by Amanda Beattie.

7 Oct 2022. Fermanagh Live Arts Festival, Northern Ireland. Literature on the Lakes. In conversation with BBC journalist Julian Fowler on the destruction of cultural heritage and art as resistance to war.

7 Oct 2022. Fermanagh Live Arts Festival, Northern Ireland. Enniskillen Royal Grammar School. Creative Writing Workshop for pupils from four local schools.

Sep–Oct 2022. Writing the Unspeakable: War and Conflict Fiction with Priscilla Morris, 6-week evening course at the Irish Writers Centre, Dublin.

20 Sep 2022. Fabulist Marks, Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin. A UCD one-day creative writing conference. Reading from Black Butterflies.

20 May 2022. International Literature Festival Dublin. A Journey into Memory. In conversation with Bosnian author Lana Bastašić about war and memory. Chaired by Caelainn Hogan.

6 May 2022. Times Radio. Midnight Interview with Kait Borsay.

5 May 2022. Scala Radio Book Club. In conversation with Mark Forrest.

Sep 2019. Lismore Taproot Festival, Scotland. Reading and Q&A.

2014-2018. Emerging Writer-in-Residence, Kingston University. Judge of Kingston University Short Story Prize. Kingston Writing School Lecture Series: Reading and Q&A.

The Goat’s Bridge, near Sarajevo (top image and above). Beautiful photos by Gwen Jones.