Category: News
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Call for Poetry & Short Fiction Entries:Aesthetica Creative Writing Award
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award is one of the main awards in the UK for new writing talent. It is an outlet for expression and a platform for poets and authors across the world to showcase their work through £5,000 prize money, publication and wide exposure through the Aesthetica networks. They are looking for pieces…
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The People’s Poem for Peace
Medway libraries are curating the People’s Poem for Peace. The poem is being created to commemorate VE day, which marked the end of World War 2 in Europe on 8th May 1945. They are asking the people who live, work, or study in Medway to participate in creating this poem…
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Unspeakable: Poetry Launch at the Medway Women’s History Month Finale
“In the beginning is the hearing”, Mary Daly The Rochester Literature Festival and Medway Women’s History Month team are proud to announce the long-awaited launch of Unspeakable, the poetry collaboration between Chatham born SM Jenkin, and International writer and multi-disciplinary artist Rosemary McLeish. SM Jenkin says: “This pamphlet arose from…
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Finale Day at the Net Community Hub
Last chance to celebrate Medway Women’s History Month! The first event of the day, and we’re talking to fearless females who founded their own companies which culturally enrich their communities. From 12noon-1pm, meet Medway’s Creative Women. The conversation will be chaired by our very own Festival Director Jaye Nolan, a…
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March is Medway Women’s History Month
Saturdays in March 2025 are going to be busy, so block out your diaries now. We’re working in partnership with Medway Adult Education, Rochester, Salvation Army, Strood and the Net Community Hub to celebrate Medway Women’s History Month. Here’s our programme for the month: March 1st: Launch Event at Rochester…
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A Mini Murderous Medway
March 2025 is going to be busy, so brace yourselves! We’re holding a series of events to mark Women’s History Month, and one of them is a Murderous Medway Production. ‘Her Majesty The Queen Investigates’ author S J Bennett: In Conversation will take place at the Salvation Army Hall in…
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Medway, City of Culture 2025 – can you help the bid?
Medway’s 2025 UK City of Culture bid is seeking members for a new voluntary trustee group and working groups to guide the set-up of an independent culture trust to deliver Medway’s City of Culture ambition and to support the development of the bid throughout 2020 and 2021. The groups seek…
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Murderous Medway Panel 1 – Location, Location, Location
21st September 2019 Elly Griffiths, William Shaw and Lesley Thomson discuss the settings of their novels and how a place can become just as much a character as the heroes.
Rochester Literature Festival 