Rochester Literature Festival

  • Two Days Later Short Horror Film Competition “the best and scariest crop ever!”

    The Two Days Later Short Horror Film Competition marked its 9th anniversary with this year’s shortlisted finalists evening screening at the The Theatre Royal, Margate on Saturday 29th October. “From the shadows around the Theatre Royal Margate, on a particularly dark and forbidding Saturday night, a ghostly hoard of vampires, witches and…

  • Auditions for Charles Dickens: Hero or Zero?

    Rochester Cathedral’s Dickens bicentenary programme is now taking shape and the latest project is about to go live!! Charles Dickens – Hero or Zero? is a new play by Alis Hawkins, commissioned by the Cathedral with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund . It transports Dickens – quite literally –…

  • Medway Broadside Horror Show!

    Independent local news, art and culture paper, the Medway Broadside, are celebrating their one year anniversary with a Horror Show on Saturday night. Being held at The Barge in Gillingham, featured local writers will include Philip Kane, Maria McCarthy, ME4 Writers and the Whirlin Chair Press, reading their ghost stories live … or…

  • National Poetry Day – local(ish) events tomorrow!

    It’s National Poetry Day tomorrow and there are a couple of (fairly) local events you can enjoy. Poetry on the Platform – For the 13th Year running, Year 8 Boys from Bickley Park Prep School will read and recite poetry for the commuters as they congregate and pass along the platform,…

  • Casting call for ‘Cleaners’

    Via Talent Circle, director Al Corretta is looking for eight cast members for the sequel to his indie film, What You See Is What You Get. Called Cleaners, it’s set in New York (via Medway!) and picks up the story of time served Mafia associate Donnie Di Maggio. More details…

  • Status Stories – Short Fiction on Facebook

    Again, maybe not so appealing to everyone, but for those with lots of shorties bursting out of their heads, there is a home on Facebook: Status Stories is an open group where you can share short – very short – fiction (100 words or less!) Go explore, there are already…

  • 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…

  • Are you a songwriter looking for an outlet and like minds?

    Then I may have found the perfect home for you! It happens to be on Facebook and I know, it’s changed again: by-pass the fear, as you may want to become a member of the Medway Songwriters Circle, where you’ll find amongst their number such talents as Didi Bergman, Porlie Eidolon…

  • Rochester Creative Writing Courses

    Local author and tutor, Philip Kane, has two new writing courses starting shortly under the Adult Education banner. Enrolment has opened for the 2011/12 courses which will both be held at the Rochester Centre, Eastgate. Creative Writing for Beginners (course code R09100111A) starts on Tuesday 20th September, between 1.30 – 3pm.…

  • 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…