Leading arts and literature event, Aké Festival, is heading online for 2020, giving global audiences the chance to listen in…
Archives for Literature
Enjoy Tales from the Tombstone Tavern
Are you ready for Dracula, The Mummy and other classic monsters to entertain you with scary stories this Halloween?
A haunting Halloween Late in Greenwich
Expect late night tales and terrifying yarns as the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich host their first Halloween Late…
Not just Bang! Pow! Splat! A different view with Thinking Comics
LICAF Live is hosting a series of thought-provoking presentations by leading comic artists in their virtual Thinking Comics programme…
Take a literary wander in London this October
This month, celebrate London books and authors by joining Footprints of London as they host literary walks and virtual talks…
Giant metal tripods and a fire garden at London festival
Are you ready for two weeks of immersive installations, colourful dance performances, and eclectic travelling and pop-up events?
Graphic novel captures historical racial conflict in Cardiff
This summer, a graphic novel will enable you to step back into a dark period of history in Cardiff, and trace events through real locations…
Bite-size drama on a postcard
New Perspectives have devised a novel way of reaching rural audiences, through a six-part drama written on a series of specially designed postcards…
Escape this summer with the Yorkshire Festival of Story
This August, Yorkshire Festival of Story will be giving audiences the chance to escape, gain new perspectives and get active through the use of stories…
Discover comic art in a virtual clock tower
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has launched a Virtual Comics Clock Tower ahead of October’s LICAF LIVE event…
Shatila Stories zoom into World Refugee Day event
This World Refugee Day, on Saturday 20th June, a special online discussion with the writers of Shatila Stories will take place via Zoom…
New poetry collection focuses on resistance and hope
God, Does Humanity Exist? is a new collection of poems from Kamand Kojouri focusing on suffering, resistance, and, most importantly, hope…
Make Mondays more moving with monologue series
Throughout this spring and summer, a series of Monday Monologues written by UK and Irish writers will be released by the Bush Theatre…
Go #OutdoorsIndoors and escape to nature
Northumberland National Park is using social media to bring the unique qualities of the landscape, wildlife and environment to people stuck at home…
Five books to transport you from isolation
You’ve survived a month of lockdown, you’ve cleaned the house from top to bottom, finished the DIY and baked all the bread you can possibly eat. Maybe it’s time to put your feet up with a good book?