The first WRITE Festival is happening now, 21 – 25 June 2017.
We have a whole range of unmissable events still to come which you can find information about and buy tickets for below.
We will be keeping you updated with the latest from the Festival with posts about each event after they’ve happened. We will be sharing photographs, interviews and filling you in on everything you want to know about each event.
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£7.50
£3.50
£3.50 per person
Tickets £3.50 child/ £2.50 adult/ £10.50 family of 4/£1 for children under 12 months
Suitable for under 7s and their families
Free
Free
Suitable for 13-19 years
£3.50
Free
On the first day of the WRITE Festival 2017, Wednesday 21 June, John Prebble and Degna Stone ran various sessions as part of The Poetry Exchange which aimed to encourage the attendees to share their favourite poem with the duo and discuss what it meant to them. This sell-out event allowed John and Degna to meet a wide variety of people and get to know them by listening to their meaningful poem - a poem that they later go on to record and send as a gift to the attendees...
The Cuckoo Young Writers @ The Word programme, which meets weekly, offers young writers aged 12-19 a chance to share their work, learn new skills and give and receive feedback in a creative and supportive atmosphere. Over Spring 2017, the group worked with Matt Wesolowski and James Whitman (the group deliverers) exploring dark fiction and as part of an end of term project involving this, they created the Story Trail...