Rochester Literature Festival

  • New Playwrights’ Circle Course

    Local scriptwriter Paul Doust will be holding another 10 week playwriting course at the Eastgate Centre, Rochester. The course starts on Thursday May 3rd, 7pm – 9pm and you can book with the Medway Adult and Community Learning Service on 01634 338400. The cost is £77. Paul has previously written…

  • 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…

  • Greenheart Press Present ‘In the House of Ladders’

    Our very own Emma Dewhurst’s new adventure into book publishing has begun! The first poetry book by Bill Lewis since 2003 has been published by Greenheart Press, an imprint of Emma’s Wow magazine, and was launched on Friday night to a specially invited audience – see more here. Philip Kane, our…

  • Short Encounters: Medway Sci-fi submissions sought

    Medway is known for its creative community and its social commentators – but what about those forgotten minorities, the aliens and monsters? Now’s your chance to give them a voice and tell their stories, and/or share your alternative vision of Medway! Submit in word format to me4writers@googlemail.com by May 1st;…

  • Reed Short Film Competition – The Boss!

    Reed employment agency are running a short film competition, with the theme of ‘The Boss’. Now, while I’m sure there are plenty of Bruce Springsteen fans out there who may be tempted, this is fairly and squarely aimed at   serious film makers, be they an amateur using a mobile…

  • 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…