It was once the home of liquid lunches, exclusive scoops and rival editors on the warpath, but in the years since the British press left Fleet Street, the area has been struggling with something of an identity crisis. However, a new literary festival is aiming to lure editors, journalists and readers back to the historic thoroughfare, which was as notorious for its offices of smoking hacks at typewriters as it was for the booze-soaked bars frequented by them.
Aiming to “explore how words shape our world”, the inaugural Fleet Street Quarter Festival of Words is a cultural programme of events that covers current affairs and journalism, fiction, screenwriting, poetry and spoken word. Alongside breakfast briefings with journalists and fireside chats with beauty editors, the multi-venue