Children from Derby schools will have the chance to meet award-winning children’s authors and poets in June at […]
Category Archive: Poetry
The third Wirksworth Book Weekend is being held at various locations in the town from April 5-8. For […]
The Wirksworth Book Festival, which celebrates local authors and brings books and writers to Wirksworth is being staged […]
Derby Book Festival needs your vote to secure funding from the Aviva Community Fund for their Shared Writing […]
Buxton’s heyday in the Edwardian era was a prime example of how Britain’s Age of Decadence changed our […]
Few of the people enjoying the entertainment lined-up for the annual Ashbourne Festival will realise that the whole […]
Tickets for the Derby Book Festival have been selling like hot cakes since they went on sale in […]
The 2017 Buxton International Festival is an exciting blend of world-class opera, the finest musicians in the classical […]
Aspiring writers have a chance to learn more on a new How to Get Published course at QUAD in Derby […]
The second annual Aurora Poetry and Short Fiction Open Competition has opened for entries. The judges are the […]
The Historic Houses Association – the HHA – has launched a new Literary Trail for 2017, which features […]
Poet Michael Gibson brings Sir Gaiwain and the Green Knight, a wonderful 14th century tale of chivalry and […]
Best-selling author Sebastian Faulks will attend a special opening event at next year’s Derby Book Festival in Derby […]
There’s a great line up of literary personalities – each with a fascinating tale to tell – at […]
Nine years ago a group of friends with a common love for the planet and a desire to […]
It was almost 90 years ago when the Derbyshire poet Teresa Hooley decided to create a new poetry […]
As always the Ashbourne Festival will be bringing big names and award-winning performers to Derbyshire this month. Among […]
Lost Dog, led by its highly accomplished artistic director Ben Duke, recently hit the jackpot with five-star reviews […]
The full line up for the second Derby Book Festival includes two prestigious Guardian Live events. Simon Callow, […]
It is 100 years since the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie gave the city of Derby a grant to build […]
As a first for this year, Wirksworth is hosting a small book festival over the weekend of April […]
The second Derby Book Festival programme, being launched this evening (April 5), includes many amazing writers, poets, historians, […]
Rising to prominence in the 70s with his unique brand of punk poetry Dr John Cooper Clarke, affectionately […]
Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, and Helen Mort, Derbyshire Poet Laureate, will open the second Derby Book […]
Author Andy Christopher Miller will be reading from his recently published book The Naples of England at an […]
Baking, booze and banter all feature in the second Buxton Festival Literary Weekend. Highlights of the event, which […]
Members of Matlock Book Café which meets at the town’s library have come up with some great suggestions […]
Calling all diary keepers, list makers, secret scribblers, aspiring authors, story hoarders, journalists, tweeters and future poets. If […]
As if we are not lucky enough, living in this beautiful county, we are also blessed with the […]
The eighth Derbyshire Literature Festival is being staged across the county from May 8-17 with a range of […]
If you have a love of books and reading then you need to cross out anything else in […]
A major new literary festival ‘The Chatsworth Festival – Art Out Loud‘, is being staged at Chatsworth House in […]
The internationally renowned and award-winning Buxton Festival featuring opera, music and books will take place from July 10 […]
Richard J Birkin is a musician who describes himself as a composer but there is much more to […]
The first Derby Book Festival, which is taking place in the city this summer, was officially launched at […]
Open Book Writers, a group of authors from Chesterfield, are celebrating after publishing their first anthology. They are […]
Buxton Festival is delighted to announce their new Literary Weekend featuring renowned speakers will take place from Friday, […]
Chatsworth Road in Chesterfield must be one of the most vibrant neighbourhoods in the county if their annual […]
Flamingo croquet, giant chess, a Cheshire cat and a white rabbit. A mix which can only mean one […]
A quartet of artists are joining together for what promises to be one of the most striking and […]
