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Prose in the Pub 2025
Bring your words to Prose in the Pub, 27 September 6pm 2025 at the Green Dragon, High Street Marlborough. Part of the Marlborough Festival of Literature.
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Horrific writing
Want to write some folk horror but too scared to do it on your own? Writer’s Online has the event for you on Sat 12th April 2025.
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Writers and Readers Day, Swindon
Book fair, book talk, writers’ chat, Flash Fiction slam and creative writing workshop. 10am – 4pm on Saturday 10th May 2025, Swindon Hub, The Parade, Swindon SN1 1BAPart of Swindon Festival of Literature A whole day for book lovers, local and regional authors, keen readers, young and old writers, and everyone who likes to connect with others who are…
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Short Stories writers’ event 19 March 2025
Masterclass: ‘Lessons from a Short Story Writer’ with critically acclaimed short story writer Lucy Sweeney Byrne, Wednesday 19th March, 12.30-1.30pm with recording available for two weeks, by Writers & Artists. Lucy will reveal what she wishes someone had told her at the start of her career, looking both at the craft of writing short stories and the…
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Writers’ Day at Salisbury Literary Festival
As we approach the second run of literature festivals, I’m thinking of the different kinds of festival within easy travel of Marlborough. Swindon (okay, it’s in May), focuses on ideas and has a lot of intellectual non-fiction catering to a city-sized town (and county) missing undergraduate education. Cheltenham (October) has grown into a mega book…
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Poetry Swindon Festival
So today I was in a cow onesie outside Swindon town centre M&S reading The Cow by Roald Dahl, with a bunch of other onesie animals. (The other option was to read An Ode to Autumn by Keates with added moos). The point of this stunt – and believe it or not this was the…
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