Join us at our next festival ~ 25-27 April 2025
Full programme of talks and workshops for adults and children
2023 Speakers
Marcel Theroux
The Sorcerer of Pyongyang
Writer and broadcaster. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Prix de l’Inaperçu.
Alex Preston
Winchelsea
Winner of Spear’s and Edinburgh Award, selected as one of Waterstones’ New Voices 2010, shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize.
Jyoti Patel
The Things That We Lost
Winner of Stormzy’s Merky Books New Writers’ Prize 2021 and listed among The Observer’s ‘best new novelists’.
Rebecca Stott
Dark Earth
Author of fourteen books including a New York Times bestseller and her Costa Biography Prize-winning memoir about living in a cult. Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
Patricia McCarthy
A Ghosting in Ukraine
Winner of the National Poetry Competition 2012, editor of Agenda. Patricia’s collection Horses Between Our Legs was chosen book of the year in The Independent.
Workshops
Robyn Wilson Owen
Children’s Illustration Workshop
Author and illustrator. Books chosen as The Sunday Times children’s book of the week and among The Guardian’s best books of the summer.
Genevieve Stevens
Poetry Workshop
Award-winning poet and lecturer in English. Teaches poetry at Charleston and Poetry School.