Rochester Literature Festival

Category: Opportunities

  • What If? A Creative Writing Workshop

    Have you ever thought what would have happened to Medway if Edward VIII hadn’t abdicated in  the 1930s? How would history have evolved? How would the lives and fortunes of local people changed? The Medway Archive and Local Studies Centre invite you to join their writing workshop with our very…

  • Get Yourself Out There! An introduction to blogging

    A workshop for people who want to blog but are not sure how to get started or where to go with it. As a blogger for almost five years, I’ve run a number of blogs and I’m keen to pass on what I’ve learned to others stepping into the blogosphere.…

  • Winter Writers’ Rendezvous, The Regenerate, Wolfshead and Vixen.

    The next Writers’ Winter Rendezvous will be on Thursday 13th December, from 7.30pm till late, at the Two Brewers pub in Rochester High Street. A chance to meet informally with other writers for drinks and conversation, networking and maybe even collaborations. Our Artistic Director, Philip, is seeking contributors for the…

  • Spreading the word: Interviews, a book and a request

    With the excitement of the Unfinished event now behind us, we’ve had time to catch up with other projects! We were recently interviewed by the wonderful and talented Michelle Goode (Write SoFluid) for  Literary UK, the one stop shop for literature festivals around the country. Do bookmark it for future…

  • 51:st Voyager Film Festival Submissions still open

    Call 4 MOVING-IMAGE ARTISTS & FILMMAKERS: 1 Medway ‘OPEN PROJECTOR’ – 17 Nov 19:30 till 22.30pm Nucleus 272 High Street, Chatham, Kent ME4 4BP. Submit by Saturday Nov 10th to secure a slot otherwise just come along, bring your DVD or a .wmv, .mpeg 1/2/4, .mp4, h.264 file of your…

  • Making a Connection: Acting, Movement and Voice

    Our wonderful Creative Producer, Emma Dewhurst, is offering a FREE drama masterclass on Saturday, November 3rd from 1.30pm – 3.30pm, at the Quaker Meeting House, Northgate in Rochester. A fun, one-off drama workshop exploring the connections between the body, the voice and the text.  Expect an actor’s warm-up, some theatre…

  • Medway Culture and Design Awards

    Nominations close on Friday! Get cracking … Created to recognise groups and individuals for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the area’s cultural vitality, the awards aim to highlight the projects, people, businesses and organisations that contribute so much to the community. Previous category winners include cultural and community space,…

  • The RLF Presents: Unfinished

    UPDATE: Unfinished is pretty much fully booked now – still some room in the Bloggers Forum! Indians snacks will be available to buy courtesy of the lovely David and Baljinder, who are very kindly manning the coFWD kitchen for us. Tea and coffee will also be available at a very reasonable…

  • Wise Words Festival – Opportunities for writers

    As the Wise Words Festival draws near, the organisers would like to invite locally based authors, artists and poets to take part.  They have several opportunities listed below but places on each are limited so do let them know as soon as possible if interested in any of them: Poets…

  • Applications open for the winter Medway Open Studios and Arts Festival

    After the success of the inaugural Medway Open Studios and Arts Festival in July, director Heather Burgess has organized a winter festival for the weekend of 8th and 9th December and is calling for artists’ applications. Over 70 artists took part in July and many are opening their doors again,…

  • Creatabot Launch New Creative Competition

    Creatabot have launched their new yearly competition with the brief “Gadgets and Gizmos”. The competition is open until November 2012 and entries will be judged by a selection of the website’s writers, including Mark Young, Alice Stansfield, Luke Crook and George Langridge. As much art work as possible will exhibit…

  • 2 Days Later Short Film Competition

    ONLY  6 WEEKS TO GET YOUR HORROR FILMS IN! 2 Days Later, Kent’s biggest Short Film Competition, returns for the tenth year with another challenge of Horror short filmmaking, just bursting with provocative interpretations of the genre, as the centre piece of Margate’s first ever Halloween Horror Weekend event. The annual…