Event Listing
Whether you are looking for a group, workshop or an open mic, you'll find all the details for the coming weeks below:
Items are added as organisers confirm them. We take great care in compiling this list. Words on Wednesday is not responsible for running all these events. It is a good idea to check the event's social media or website before you attend.SEPTEMBER 2026
Swindon Poetry Cafe
📅11/09/2026 🕛 7.30pm-10.00pm 📍Caffe Vailotte, Unit 1, Greencote House, Isambard Wy, Redhouse Wy., Blunsdon St Andrew, Swindon SN25 2NT 💷£6-£8 Poets and songwriters unite! Come and enjoy homegrown stories, stanzas and songs at the Swindon Poetry Café, a monthly open-mic at Caffe Vialottie, hosted by the Mayor's poet, Rebecca Rocker. 🔗 Info 🔗 Tickets
Swindon Shuffle The Victoria
📅11/09/2026 🕛 7.45pm-11.00pm 📍The Victoria , 88 Victoria Rd, SN1 3BD 💷FREE Swindon Shuffle, the free music festival returns for its 20th year! Featuring; Bucket Fight, Steoptygous, Oxygen Thief, Dream Weapons,Modern Evils. 🔗 Info
Swindon Shuffle The Castle inn
📅11/09/2026 🕛 7.15pm-11.00pm 📍The castle Inn, 28 Prospect Pl, Swindon SN1 3LQ 💷FREE Swindon Shuffle, the free music festival returns for its 20th year! Featuring; Plugin, Submarine, Alto Alto, Viduals,Nothing Rhymes with Orange. 🔗 Info
Swindon Shuffle The Hop Inn
📅11/09/2026 🕛 7.00pm-11.00pm 📍The Hop Inn, 8 Devizes Rd, Swindon SN1 4BH 💷FREE Swindon Shuffle, the free music festival returns for its 20th year! Featuring; Evening Star, Richard W & Amy, Wren N Friends 🔗 Info
Swindon Shuffle The Behive
📅12/09/2026 🕛 7.15pm-11.00pm 📍The Beehive, 55 Prospect Hill, Swindon SN1 3JS 💷FREE Swindon Shuffle, the free music festival returns for its 20th year! Featuring; Static Moves, Careful, Spider, Thort Crimes, Black Hats, Subject A 🔗 Info
Swindon Shuffle The Victoria
📅12/09/2026 🕛 7.45pm-11.00pm 📍The Victoria , 88 Victoria Rd, SN1 3BD 💷FREE Swindon Shuffle, the free music festival returns for its 20th year! Featuring; Don't act Dead, Junkyard Angels, Mocie Dolls, I see Orange, Airflow 🔗 Info
Swindon Shuffle The Castle Inn
📅12/09/2026 🕛 7.00pm-11.00pm 📍The castle Inn, 28 Prospect Pl, Swindon SN1 3LQ 💷FREE Swindon Shuffle, the free music festival returns for its 20th year! Featuring; David Corrigan, Jol Rose, Bluebeard & TDH, Buswell, JB & the Mojo Makers 🔗 Info
Swindon Shuffle The Pulpit
📅12/09/2026 🕛 14:30:00:00-6.00pm 📍The Pulpit, 7 Devizes Road, SN1 4BJ 💷FREE Swindon Shuffle, the free music festival returns for its 20th year! Featuring; Orla, Jess Chi9vers, LIttle Red, M3G, Fly Yeti Fly 🔗 Info
Swindon Shuffle The Pulpit
📅13/09/2026 🕛 13:30:00:00-4.00pm 📍The Pulpit, 7 Devizes Road, SN1 4BJ 💷FREE Swindon Shuffle, the free music festival returns for its 20th year! Featuring; Half of one, Rhia Murgatroyd, John Coventry, Tom Corneill. 🔗 Info
Swindon Shuffle The Behive
📅13/09/2026 🕛 4.00pm-9.00pm 📍The Beehive, 55 Prospect Hill, Swindon SN1 3JS 💷FREE Swindon Shuffle, the free music festival returns for its 20th year! Featuring: JP Oldfield, Shedric, The Shudders, Mr Love & Justice, Courting Ghosts, Concrete Prairie. 🔗 Info
Artswords Reading Group
📅15/09/2026 🕛 7.30pm-9.00pm 📍Lower Shaw Farm,, Old Shaw Lane, West Swindon, SN5 5PJ 💷£2 Plainsong by Kent Haruf. A father struggles alone to bring up his two young sons, a school girl finds herself pregnant and homeless . . . – an exploration of the grace and hope of every human life and the infinite capacity for love. 🔗 Info
Words on Wednesday (WoW)
📅16/09/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Swindon Hub, 36 The Parade, SN1 1BA 💷FREE Friendly, inclusive, creative writing group run by volunteers. Free, no need to book pop in! 🔗 Info
Liden Writers Group
📅18/09/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Liden Library, Liden Square, SN3 6HF 💷FREE A friendly local writers' group welcomes all to write along with prompts and shares every week 🔗 Info
Swindon Open Studios 18th,19th and 26th and 27th September 2026
📅19/09/2026 🕛 see-website 📍Various, See Website for location 💷FREE Local Community art event, involving 56 venues and around 100 artists. 🔗 Info
Open Studios, Podpadstudios at Mulberry Gardens - : Swindon Open Studios
📅19/09/2026 🕛 2.00pm-7.00pm 📍Mulberry Gardens and Podpadstudios , 225 Whitworth Road Swindon SN25 3BX 💷FREE Swindon Open Studios at Mulberry Gardens, Podpadstudios, Zozo Thomas, and other guest artists open the popular studios in Whitworth Road. See film props, art, sculptures and also there will be cake! Refreshments available at the Potting Shed Cafe. There is no entry charge, but donations towards the cost of materials and the upkeep of the gardens would be gratefully received.
There will also be a wide range of gifts and artwork available for sale. 🔗 Info
Swindon Wordsmiths Poetry and Comedy night
📅19/09/2026 🕛 7.30pm-9.30pm 📍The Well (Christ The Servant Church), Abbey Meads Village Centre, Elstree Way, Swindon SN25 4YX 💷£8 A lively evening of spoken word poetry and stand-up comedy created by Swindon people, for Swindon people. Five open-mic spots, two pro sets, one audience poem. Bring your own drinks (and words!) 🔗 Info 🔗 Tickets
Open Studios, Podpadstudios at Mulberry Gardens - part of Swindon Open Studios
📅20/09/2026 🕛 2.00pm-7.00pm 📍Mulberry Gardens and Podpadstudios , 225 Whitworth Road Swindon SN25 3BX 💷FREE Swindon Open Studios at Mulberry Gardens, Podpadstudios, Zozo Thomas, and other guest artists open the popular studios in Whitworth Road. See film props, art, sculptures and also there will be cake! Refreshments available at the Potting Shed Cafe. There is no entry charge, but donations towards the cost of materials and the upkeep of the gardens would be gratefully received.
There will also be a wide range of gifts and artwork available for sale. 🔗 Info
Words on Wednesday (WoW)
📅23/09/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Swindon Hub, 36 The Parade, SN1 1BA 💷FREE Friendly, inclusive, creative writing group run by volunteers. Free, no need to book pop in! 🔗 Info
Open Studios, Podpadstudios at Mulberry Gardens - Artist Chill Out
📅25/09/2026 🕛 2.00pm-7.00pm 📍Mulberry Gardens and Podpadstudios , 225 Whitworth Road Swindon SN25 3BX 💷FREE Swindon Open Studios at Mulberry Gardens, Podpadstudios, Zozo Thomas, and other guest artists open the popular studios in Whitworth Road. To celebrate Open Studios, artists are invited to an Artists Chill out event. There is no entry charge but donations towards the cost of materials and the upkeep of the gardens would be gratefully received.
There will also be a wide range of gifts and artwork available for sale. 🔗 Info
Liden Writers Group
📅25/09/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Liden Library, Liden Square, SN3 6HF 💷FREE A friendly local writers' group welcomes all to write along with prompts and shares every week 🔗 Info
Forging Fantasitcal Story walk at Uffington White Horse:
Chasing the Sun
📅26/09/2026 🕛 10.45am-12.15pm 📍Uffington White Horse, White Horse Hill Car Park, Uffington, SN7 7QJ 💷£7 Jon Mason is bringing two days of shows! Join us for a very special story walk on Uffington White horse. Saturday 26th of September morning and afternoon shows. ‘Chasing the Sun’ is a collection of myths and folktales that consider the traces left in the soil and the hopes and dreams of those who walked the landscape before us. Combining tantalising archaeological evidence, and echoes of ancient legend, Jon weaves together stories from Wales to Yorkshire to Iceland and more and imagines the myth that might have been. 🔗 Info 🔗 Tickets
Forging Fantasitcal Story walk at Uffington White Horse:
Chasing the Sun
📅26/09/2026 🕛 2.00pm-3.45pm 📍Uffington White Horse, White Horse Hill Car Park, Uffington, SN7 7QJ 💷£7 Jon Mason is bringing two days of shows! Join us for a very special story walk on Uffington White horse. Saturday 26th of September morning and afternoon shows. ‘Chasing the Sun’ is a collection of myths and folktales that consider the traces left in the soil and the hopes and dreams of those who walked the landscape before us. Combining tantalising archaeological evidence, and echoes of ancient legend, Jon weaves together stories from Wales to Yorkshire to Iceland and more and imagines the myth that might have been. 🔗 Info 🔗 Tickets
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Open Studios, Podpadstudios at Mulberry Gardens - part of Swindon Open Studios
📅26/09/2026 🕛 2.00pm-7.00pm 📍Mulberry Gardens and Podpadstudios , 225 Whitworth Road Swindon SN25 3BX 💷FREE Swindon Open Studios at Mulberry Gardens, Podpadstudios, Zozo Thomas, and other guest artists open the popular studios in Whitworth Road. See film props, art, sculptures and also there will be cake! Refreshments available at the Potting Shed Cafe. There is no entry charge, but donations towards the cost of materials and the upkeep of the gardens would be gratefully received.
There will also be a wide range of gifts and artwork available for sale. 🔗 Info
Poetry in the Pub, part of Mulborough Litfest
📅26/09/2026 🕛 5.00pm-6.00pm 📍The Green Dragon, 12-13 High St, Marlborough SN8 1AA 💷FREE Join Alex Hickman, writer and poet, at the Green Dragon for our open mic poetry event. All poets of any age are welcome to pop by with poems inspired by this year’s National Poetry Day theme of ‘Wonder’ or other subjects. Poems submitted in advance to general@marlboroughlitfest.org will be read first. Alex has run our Poetry in the Pub sessions for many years and blogs at hickmanalex. substack.com 🔗 Info
Prose in the Pub, part of Mulborough Litfest
📅26/09/2026 🕛 6.00pm-7.00pm 📍The Green Dragon, 12-13 High St, Marlborough SN8 1AA 💷FREE Join Marlborough Writers at their second prosealoud event – a new LitFest tradition dating from 2025! Read your piece of up to 500 words in any genre before a friendly audience, or listen to local writers share their work. To join an informal workshopping session, please see marlboroughwriters.uk or email kyra.edgington@ gmail.com. 🔗 Info
Open Studios, Podpadstudios at Mulberry Gardens - part of Swindon Open Studios
📅27/09/2026 🕛 2.00pm-7.00pm 📍Mulberry Gardens and Podpadstudios , 225 Whitworth Road Swindon SN25 3BX 💷FREE Swindon Open Studios at Mulberry Gardens, Podpadstudios, Zozo Thomas, and other guest artists open the popular studios in Whitworth Road. See film props, art, sculptures and also there will be cake! Refreshments available at the Potting Shed Cafe. There is no entry charge, but donations towards the cost of materials and the upkeep of the gardens would be gratefully received. There will also be a wide range of gifts and artwork available for sale. 🔗 Info
Swindon Artswords Writers Cafe
📅29/09/2026 🕛 7.00pm-9.00pm 📍Friends Meeting House, 79 Eastcott Hill, SN1 3JF 💷£2 Artswords Writers' Café, is a meeting place for new writers, experienced writers and anyone interested in writing. We chat, we read, we explore, and we discover, interesting things about writing. If you have any piece of writing you’d like to share with others, please bring it along, in hardcopy, at least tenfold. Everyone and anyone interested in writing and reading is welcome! For further information, please contact Matt Holland on 01793 771080 or matt@lowershawfarm.co.uk 🔗 Info
Words on Wednesday (WoW)
📅30/09/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Swindon Hub, 36 The Parade, SN1 1BA 💷FREE Friendly, inclusive, creative writing group run by volunteers. Free, no need to book pop in! 🔗 Info
Poetry in the pub
📅30/09/2026 🕛 7.30pm-9.00pm 📍The Pulpit, 7 Devizes Road, SN1 4BJ 💷FREE An evening of poems and good company, presented in association with Poetry Swindon and hosted by Maurice Spillane and Tony Hillier. Whether you wish to recite, read, or listen, everyone welcome! Further info, if you need it, from poemogram@hotmail.com 🔗 Info
OCTOBER 2026
Liden Writers Group
📅02/10/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Liden Library, Liden Square, SN3 6HF 💷FREE A friendly local writers' group welcomes all to write along with prompts and shares every week 🔗 Info
Mum's The Word
📅05/10/2026 🕛 7.30pm-9.00pm 📍Lower Shaw Farm, Old Shaw Lane, West Swindon, SN5 5PJ 💷£2 Mum's the Word, is a friendly and informal writing group for mums, including birth mums, foster mums, full–time mums, adoptive mums, working mums, grandmas, and women who are primary carers or guardians of a child. for more in fo contact Helen Allen at: mumsthewordwriting@outlook.com or helen@ifsandbuts.co.uk 🔗 Info
Poetry Swindon
📅07/10/2026 🕛 7.00pm-9.00pm 📍Lower Shaw Farm, Old Shaw Lane, West Swindon, SN5 5PJ 💷£2 Poetry Swindon meets monthly to read, write and discuss poetry in a relaxed and friendly setting. New faces are always welcome. 🔗 Info
Words on Wednesday (WoW)
📅07/10/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Swindon Hub, 36 The Parade, SN1 1BA 💷FREE Friendly, inclusive, creative writing group run by volunteers. Free, no need to book pop in! 🔗 Info
Liden Writers Group
📅09/10/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Liden Library, Liden Square, SN3 6HF 💷FREE A friendly local writers' group welcomes all to write along with prompts and shares every week 🔗 Info
Words on Wednesday (WoW)
📅14/10/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Swindon Hub, 36 The Parade, SN1 1BA 💷FREE Friendly, inclusive, creative writing group run by volunteers. Free, no need to book pop in! 🔗 Info
Liden Writers Group
📅16/10/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Liden Library, Liden Square, SN3 6HF 💷FREE A friendly local writers' group welcomes all to write along with prompts and shares every week 🔗 Info
Words on Wednesday (WoW)
📅21/10/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Swindon Hub, 36 The Parade, SN1 1BA 💷FREE Friendly, inclusive, creative writing group run by volunteers. Free, no need to book pop in! 🔗 Info
Liden Writers Group
📅23/10/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Liden Library, Liden Square, SN3 6HF 💷FREE A friendly local writers' group welcomes all to write along with prompts and shares every week 🔗 Info
Words on Wednesday (WoW)
📅28/10/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Swindon Hub, 36 The Parade, SN1 1BA 💷FREE Friendly, inclusive, creative writing group run by volunteers. Free, no need to book pop in! 🔗 Info
Poetry in the pub
📅28/10/2026 🕛 7.30pm-9.00pm 📍The Pulpit, 7 Devizes Road, SN1 4BJ 💷FREE An evening of poems and good company, presented in association with Poetry Swindon and hosted by Maurice Spillane and Tony Hillier. Whether you wish to recite, read, or listen, everyone welcome! Further info, if you need it, from poemogram@hotmail.com 🔗 Info
Liden Writers Group
📅30/10/2026 🕛 10.30am-11.30am 📍Liden Library, Liden Square, SN3 6HF 💷FREE A friendly local writers' group welcomes all to write along with prompts and shares every week 🔗 Info
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OTHER GROUPS/OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS
Ipsum Creative Writing Group Charity local to Swindon delivering therapy, including art therapy, e.g. creative writing, holds a weekly writing group info Artswords Mentoring Service
Mentoring is with Artswords' Literature Development Worker, Matt Holland.For further information about booking a mentoring session, live or via Zoom, please call 01793 771080 or write to matt@lowershawfarm.co.uk.
