The Festival, which was shortlisted in the Best Literary Festival category of the UK’s Saboteur Awards in 2019, is for beginning and experienced writers who want to learn more about flash fiction – an exciting and continually emerging short-short form of prose, growing in popularity around the world. Come and be inspired by leading flash fiction practitioners from the UK, [read more…]
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Online Course: Coming From Where I’m From – A Poetry Course Exploring Place With Rachel Long
In this course, master the essentials of creating a strong sense of place, then delve into the potential of returning to sites of personal significance to mine for story and image. Create new direction and possibilities for your poems through exploratory excavations of location and memory. Learn how to paint vivid landscapes and immerse your reader, unforgettably, in time and [read more…]
Firewatching: Meet the author, Russ Thomas
Russ Thomas is the Sheffield based author behind the gripping new crime novel ‘Firewatching’. Published by Simon and Schuster, this intelligent and pacy story is deeply embedded in Sheffield with a strong sense of place and local people. Soon crime fans will associate Sheffield with DS Adam Tyler in the same way we associate Edinburgh with Rebus. ‘Firewatching’ follows DS [read more…]
Meet the author – Ian McFadyen (Ormskirk Library) #authorvisit
Ormskirk Library are pleased to welcome Liverpool born author Ian McFadyen who will be talking about his latest DI Carmichael novel “Blood on his hands.” When a stranger comes into the local church his hands are covered in blood and he claims to have committed a murder DI Carmichael is summoned but when the man disappears and a body appears [read more…]
Book & Music Festival
The Bath Festival 2020 will be a celebration of music and books with a diverse programme of more than 120 events over ten days from 15 – 24 May 2020. We are excited to have gone on early sale with the below events ahead of the full line-up being announced in February.
The Write Time – Writers’ Connection Cafe
The Write Time is a connection café for writers to meet, share and create in an open-structured session from 6-8pm on Tuesday evenings at God’s House Tower. These free to attend events are offered in the spirit of community by ArtfulScribe and a-space arts. Catering to the needs of those present, participants are encouraged to share and discuss the work [read more…]
Bath Writing Group
If you struggle to make time for your writing, our regular monthly Writing Group will help to keep you focussd on whatever projects you’re working on. The Guild is a welcoming co-working space in the heart of Bath, only 5 minutes walk from the station. We get together once a month as a small group (max 12) for some quiet, [read more…]
Becoming a Writer
Becoming a Writer is a weekly creative writing workshop to nurture and encourage your words, whether you’ve been writing for a while or are dipping your pen in ink for the first time in years. I will bring exercises and prompts to write together and share (if you want to). There will be time each week for gentle feedback on [read more…]
The Write Place One Day Writing Retreat
It’s hard to find time to write every day. So TheWriteDay is for writers who are too busy to write on other days. Once a month, we get together to write our socks off for the whole day.
Telling Tales and Spinning Yarns – Story Telling Master Class
Focusing on the folklore and fairy tales of Europe, this masterclass explores the rudiments of storytelling and uncovers ways in which we can become exponents of the oral tradition. Led by experienced storyteller, Chris Brooks, the day promises to enchant, entertain and challenge in the best possible way.