Included in the panel of authors will be Malcolm Bradbury, whose novels include "The History Man," "Eating People is Wrong" and "Rates of Exchange," which was short-listed for the Booker Prize.
Other writers planning to attend are poet Peter Porter, playwright David Edgar and journalist and biographer Victoria Glendinning.
Professor Christopher Bigsby, who runs Britain's most acclaimed creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, will chair the forum.
They are visiting Moscow and St Petersburg to mark the publication of a special edition of the Russian journal "Innostrannaya Literatura" devoted to contemporary British literature.
The meeting will be structured as a panel discussion, but the organizers said they would welcome active participation from the audience in the forum.
In attendance will be representatives from the literature departments of St Petersburg's universities.
If this event is successful, the British Council said it hopes to organize a series of forums involving British writers.
Anyone interested in attending the forum should phone Nataliya Danileichenko at the British Council at 119-60-74 for details regarding the event. (SPP)