Booking fees
£1.50 booking fee per online/phone transaction.
No fee when tickets are booked in person.
Booking fees are per transaction and not per ticket. If your booking contains several events the highest booking fee will apply. The booking fee may be reduced on certain events. Members do not pay booking fees.
About the judging panel & chair
The judging panel, chaired by Johanna Thomas-Corr, Chief Literary Critic for The Times and Sunday Times, brings together writers, critics and cultural figures of outstanding reputation: poet, filmmaker and director Caleb Femi; distinguished novelist Esther Freud; multi-award-winning presenter, author and comedian Graham Norton; acclaimed author and broadcaster Sathnam Sanghera; and philosopher and prize-winning author Lea Ypi.
Bernardine Evaristo is the globally-best-selling author of ten books including Girl, Woman, Other, which won the Booker Prize 2019. The recipient of many other honours, in 2025 she received the Women's Prize Outstanding Contribution Award and the Powerlist Woman of the Year Award. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University of London.
Young Barbican Takeover 2026
A day of live music, workshops, a makers market and more curated for and by London's emerging creatives
Frobisher Auditorium 1
Location
Level 4,
Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
Public transport
The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route information in ‘Your Visit’ or book your car parking space in advance.
