The Cheltenham Literature Festival is 70 this year – the longest running Literature Festival in the world, and the first ever. Set up by G.A.M. Wilkinson, the council’s Spa and Entertainments manager, this small but perfectly formed town in the heart of the rolling Cotswold countryside gave birth to an …
Lexicon Books is thrilled to host three wonderful poets: Kirby, also the owner/publisher of knife/fork/book, an all-poetry bookstore and publishing house in Toronto, with their newest book This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press); Annick MacAskill, author of No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press), critic and editor, and …
Poets’ Society of Hastings County North & Highlands East presents The Word Is Wild Literary Festival III. This year's festival features author and poet Sharon Berg, poet and vocalist Honey Novick, and science-fiction and fantasy novelist, Nina Munteanu, with music by Albert Saxby. The festival features poetry, books and music, …
The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word began as a small festival in Ottawa in 2004. At that time, it was dubbed the Canadian Spoken Wordlympics. The first festival included six teams of poets and a small number of guests in attendance. In just nine short years, the festival grew from …
The TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) -St Edmund Hall Writer in Residence scheme for 2020 is designed to bring a BAME writer to the University of Oxford for the eight weeks of Hilary Term (January 19th through to March 14th 2020). St Edmund Hall, a small and …