Rochester Literature Festival

Category: Events

  • Noise v Culture – a collaboration between the Fine Arts and Music departments at Uni of Kent, Medway

    Excess, affect, and the destruction of ‘sense’. In a world of noise, chaos presides in an embrace of the random, the contingent, chance and the ‘might be’. Noise is therefore a category that is not categorisable. It is a situation that has no site, and an experience that delivers no…

  • Summer Writers’ Rendezvous

    The next Writers’ Rendezvous is scheduled for Thursday, 14th June, from 7.30pm and will be held, as usual, at The Two Brewers in Rochester High Street. Feel free to bring along any writing you’d like to share or just come along and find out what’s happening on the Medway writing…

  • A Road of Marvels

    Myth and folktales are the subject of a talk by our very own Artistic Director, author, poet and storyteller Philip Kane at Chatham Library on the 24th May. The talk entitled “A Road of Marvels” will argue for the continuing importance of myth and folktale to our imaginations and to…

  • Rochester Writers’ Retreat, the sequel!

    There will be a second one day Rochester Writers’ Retreat on the 27th May between 10am and 4pm, at the CoFWD coworking space in Rochester. This event will be running on a ‘magic hat’ basis like the first one. This means that you pay what you think the day was…

  • The Garden Poetry Party – Launch event of the Rochester Literature Festival

    We are pleased to announce the launch event for the Rochester Literature Festival. The Garden Poetry Party will take place on Sunday 22nd July, at Eastgate House Gardens, between 12noon and 4pm. Performers confirmed for the festival are: Bill Lewis Philip Kane The James Worse Public Address Method Abigail Zeiring-Delmado…

  • Doodlebugs and Rockets: Public Lecture by Bob Ogley

    At the University Centre Folkestone, on Monday 30th April at 6pm. Born in Sevenoaks, Bob Ogley is a former editor of The Sevenoaks Chronicle, and was a journalist for more than 30 years before he left his newspaper to concentrate on writing books and giving talks. He is a regular…

  • Exploring Great Expectations

    February 7th 2012 marked the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’ birth; at the University Centre Folkestone this May, there will be a seminar and discussion on one of Dickens’ best loved novels, Great Expectations, which was recently adapted into a three part series on BBC One. Exploring Great Expectations Thursday 3rd…

  • LUX/ICA Biennial Of Moving Pictures Writers Residency

    You’ll have to be quick on this one – deadline for applications is April 7th but I’ve only just seen it! LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images seeks to appoint three energetic and gifted upcoming writers to participate in a 5-day writing residency as part of its forthcoming LUX/ICA Biennial of…

  • Medway Open Studios and Arts Festival

    There’s a new festival for Medway in the summer, in which writers and poets are more than welcome to take part. Applications are now open for the Medway Open Studios & Arts Festival, to celebrate all creative communities and artists who live and work locally, and to promote a positive…

  • Spring Writers’ Rendezvous

    There’s just a hint of Spring in the air now, so it seems a good time to announce a date for the Writers’ Spring Rendezvous. Meeting on the evening of Thursday 8th March, from 7.30pm, at the Two Brewers pub in Rochester High Street.  As those who’ve been before will…

  • Vitali Vitaliev: Life as a Literary Device

    Life as a Literary Device: How to Survive as a Successful Writer University Centre Folkestone is delighted to welcome celebrated journalist and writer Vitali Vitaliev as the first speaker in their 2012 Public Lecture programme. The first investigative journalist in the old Soviet Union, Vitali was forced to defect from…

  • From Alpha Behn to Angry Young Women

    A talk on a Top Ten of the UK’s women playwrights for International Women’s Day by Sam Hall, playwright and founder of 17%, an organisation to support female playwrights. From Alpha Behn, the first British woman to make a living from writing, to today’s new wave of angry young female…