Rochester Literature Festival

Category: Events

  • Creative Writing Nature Walk

    Join writer Carol Donaldson, this year’s BBC Wildlife Travel Writer of the Year, on a walk down to the Swale and around Oare Creek on Saturday 22nd October, which is sponsored by Little Toller Books. Carol will offer tips on how to take inspiration from nature, with a prize for the…

  • The Bill Lewis Lectures

    Visual artist and writer, Bill Lewis, will be giving two lectures next month, in the UCA Pop Up Gallery in Chatham’s Pentagon Centre. The first will be The Power of Myth on October 8th and will examine the work of Joseph Campbell and his theory of the “mono-myth”, of interest…

  • Autumn Writers’ Rendezvous

    The next Writers’ Rendezvous in Rochester will be at the Two Brewers this Thursday, 8th September from 7.30pm. All are welcome, feel free to bring along any writing to share. Just prior to that, Medway Poet and Stuckist artist, Bill Lewis, will be holding a special preview art event at…

  • In Conversation with … James Purefoy

    So, after I’d finished with Jamie, I ambled casually over to James for my supposed three minutes, three questions – the answers to which you can find here, within a review of the event. However, no-one came to drag me away so I stayed where I was and asked him a…

  • In Conversation with … Jamie Foreman.

    I was lucky enough to have an access-all-areas pass on Saturday, for Nomad Open Air Cinema’s screening of Ironclad, the film depicting the 1215 siege of Rochester Castle by King John. Taking full advantage, as you’d expect, I chatted to the stars in attendance, James Purefoy and Jamie Foreman, who…

  • She Writes at the Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable

    A new bi-monthly event is taking place at Whitstable’s Horsebridge Centre, entitled ‘She Writes’ and presented by 17Percent, an organisation supporting and promoting female playwrights. Female playwrights are invited to submit micro plays of up to six minutes and featuring no more than four actors, to take part in a…

  • Get Writing at the West Dean Festival

    The West Dean Festival, incorporating the Craft Rally on 27th August, takes place between 26th – 29th August in Chichester. The Get Writing section currently features Judge The Poet, with a spot of Whose Line Is It Anyway? wordsmithing,  and workshops entitled: New Ways of Watching Film. John Ashbrook, aka…