Writers Unlimited Festival Cafe

Meet with drinks and snacks. The right atmosphere comes from host and DJ Francis Broekhuijsen. Bookstore De Vries Van Stockum offers a rich selection of books by festival authors.

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Date and time Friday 23 January 2026 21:15 tot 23:00 uur
Location Theater aan het Spui - foyer
Price 15,- (up to 30 years or Ooievaarspas)
25,- (Early Bird, up to 26 December, after 35,-)
32,50 (DenHaagPas).

Meet up at the heart of the festival with a drink and a bite to eat. Host and DJ Francis Broekhuijsen creates the right atmosphere with his virtual Writers Unlimited Radio Show, and guides you through the extensive festival programme. You are welcome to request your favourite song to be played.

De Vries Van Stockum's bookshop is open all evening and richly stocked with books or cd's by festival authors and artists; you can also meet them there and have their work signed.

These authors will sign their books at the bookshop:
21:10-21:40 Leïla Slimani
21:15-21:30 Forugh Karimi
21:25-21:40 Maddy Stolk, Ellen Deckwitz, Lin An Phoa
22:20-22:40 Kim Hyesoon, Simone Atangana Bekono, Gustaaf Peek, Maxime Garcia Diaz
22:40-22:55 Thomas Heerma van Voss, Nadia de Vries, Mariken Heitman, Rob van Essen, Lize Spit, Lieke Marsman
23:35-23:50 Clarice Gargard, Simon(e) van Saarloos
23:40-23:55 José Eduardo Agualusa


Together with the Silent Eclectic Disco Show by The Hague DJ The Soulslammer, we will be dancing into the late night from 23:15. Don't want to dance but have a nice chat? Then there is plenty of room for that. No obligations, do as you like...that is the credo of the Writers Unlimited Festival heart!

Francis Broekhuijsen

(The Netherlands, 1970) is a presenter, producer, actor and voice-over artist specializing in music, literature, arts and culture. After graduating as actor from the Toneelschool Amsterdam he was a member, among others, of the ensemble of the Nationale Toneel. He was a presenter at Amsterdam-based broadcaster AT5 and a radio producer with the KRO on national network NPO Radio 1. He narrates audio books, and was shortlisted for the Storytel Award 2019 for Best Audio Book with his reading of Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's novel Grand Hotel Europa. Until last year, he presented on radio station Sublime the daily morning show Sublime Sunrise, the Instagram poetry programme Sublime Smooth and evening show The Sublime Experience. In 2025 he wrote and hosted the tv-series Kringlopen met Francis on regional Dutch broadcaster NH. Broekhuijsen works for Writers Unlimited as festival curator and presenter.

Go to the website of Francis Broekhuijsen
Instagram: @francisbroekhuijsen
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