Rochester Literature Festival

  • 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…

  • Letters Home Launch and Exhibition

    ME4 Writers Letters Home exhibition will be at Rochester library from November 3rd and likely be there for at least a month. It will comprise all letters and artwork submitted, and a photographic exhibition on the theme of home. A smaller, satellite exhibition will be at Walderslade Library between 10th…

  • Treasure or Trash? Artistic freedom and quality control in a digital age – Free conference

    UCF Folkestone present an exciting and thought-provoking conference on Thurs Sept 20, 10am-3.30pm entitled: “Treasure or trash? Artistic freedom and quality control in a digital age.” The Key speaker is Chris Meade, writer and Director of if:book UK, and other speakers include: Matt Wright (composer, sound artist, Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christchurch University), Shane…

  • Rochester Writers’ Retreats

    There are three more dates for Rochester Writing Retreats on 9th September, 14th October and 18th November from 10-4pm at coFWD at 161 Rochester High Street. These events will be running on a ‘magic hat’ basis, meaning that you pay what you think the day was worth when you leave. There will…

  • Autumn Writers’ Rendezvous

    We’ll be gathering for our usual informal mix of literary gossip, networking, creative collaborations and sensible drinking on THURSDAY 13th SEPTEMBER.  As usual, this will be at the Two Brewers pub in Rochester High Street, from about 7.30pm until we’re thrown out.  Bring writing and ideas to share if you like,…

  • Creative Writing Courses in Rochester

    CREATIVE WRITING COURSES Enrolment is now open for the courses Philip Kane will be teaching at Rochester Adult Learning Centre in Eastgate (same building as Rochester Library) during the 2012-13 academic year.  These courses are: Creative writing Monday, 7-9pm, 24/9/12 for 25 sessions Fees: a £173; b £124 Rochester, code: R091002412A (This Monday evening class,…

  • 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…

  • Open submissions for Art of Recovery exhibition

    The Art of Recovery exhibition, now in its third year, will be taking place at the Nucleus Arts Centre in Chatham, from 5th to 18th October 2012.  The show is timed to coincide with World Mental Health Day, which is on 10th October.   We are now inviting submissions of visual art – ranging…

  • A ‘Radiance’ in Rochester and Canterbury

    Bethany W. Pope and Cultured Llama Press will be launching her debut poetry collection, A Radiance, in Kent on the weekend of 8 – 9 September. Bethany will be at The Good Intent pub, John St, Rochester on 8 September at 7.30 pm, with guest poets Philip Kane and Cultured Llama publisher…

  • Medway and Swale community consortium successful in Arts Council grant bid

    Arts Council England have announced that a community consortium from Medway and Swale has been successful in applying for a commissioned grant from its Creative People and Places programme – designed to empower communities to take the lead in shaping local arts provision. The Creative People and Places programme focuses…

  • All aboard the imaginary voyage to the Arctic

    Artist/Explorer, Tony Malone will be setting off on two different voyages to the Arctic next summer. While he and his crew physically traverse the sea between the UK and the North Pole, their documenting of the trip on their yacht, the SV Iceni, will not only be shaped by the…