Events
Professional Development Seminars and Workshops for Writers in the Canterbury Area
From April until December a brand new series, Write Directions, will be run – a monthly programme of professional development seminars and workshops featuring expert guest speakers, getting inside various topics relating to writing and publishing today. Professional yet approachable, Write Directions will provide insight, advice and discussion for the area’s emerging writers.
Publishing Demystified
Download the Write Directions flyer with highlights of forthcoming events.
If you are running a literature event in the Canterbury area and would like it to be promoted here, please email full details to johnp@canterburyfestival.co.uk.
Previous Events
Kazuo Ishiguro, internationally renowned and Booker Prize winning author, in conversation with Andrew McGuinness of the Laureate Squad.
Canterbury Laureate Patience Agbabi in Performance
Patience Agbabi returned to the University of Kent, where she taught Creative Writing between 2004-05, now as Canterbury Laureate 2009-10, as part of the University's Creative Writing Tuesday Readings. A packed Aphra Theatre enjoyed the first chance in 2010 to witness our Laureate's breath-taking, dynamic poetry in performance in Canterbury.
Patience took us on a journey through previous collections, in particular giving performances from and insights into Bloodshot Monochrome, before premiering a new piece - a new pilgrim in fact from her work-in-progress inspired by The Canterbury Tales. You can read more about the event and about 'Rap, The Son aka The Parson' - even read the poem yourself in case you missed it - on Patience's blog.
Find out more information on the University of Kent Creative Writing Tuesday Readings series.
Canterbury Tells 3 - Music, food, love... A Valentine's Night Celebration
The Canterbury Laureate scheme's bi-monthly showcase was hosted on Sunday 14 February at Coffee and Corks by common room poets, with music from Frances Knight and Paul Zec and a special appearance from Canterbury Laureate Patience Agbabi. You can read more about the event in Vicky Wilson's blog on the Writers' Blogs page.
Unpublished poems read at the open mic are eligible for consideration for the Canterbury Laureate anthology. Email to cornerstonewriters@hotmail.com
Canterbury Tells 2: A focus on fiction, featuring Katherine May and a flash fiction open mic (held on Sunday 8 November 2009).
Write On Time this Canterbury Festival! A writing challenge around and about Canterbury - to produce 'My Canterbury Tale' in a single day! (held on Saturday 24 October 2009)
Little Blue Hut Open Day at Whitstable, following a month's residency by the Laureate Squad (held on Saturday 5 October 2009).
Canterbury Tells 1: Featuring the Laureate Squad, Guest Writers and Open Mic (held on Sunday 13 September 2009)
Pavement Poems: workshop with Vicky Wilson and Gary Studley as part of Herne Bay Festival 2009 (held on Monday 24 August 2009)


