Join Wise Ram Theatre at Harwich Library, Frinton Library, nOse Bookshop in Walton-on-the-Naze or West Clacton Library as they share ‘sneak ...
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Author submissions for Essex Book Festival 2027 now open
We are looking for writers, poets, artists, performers, workshop facilitators and arts and community organisations to take part in Essex Book Festival ...
Nominations for The Queen’s Reading Room Medal 2027 are now open
Celebrating individuals in their communities who are champions of books and literature. Nominations for The Queen‘s Reading Room Medal 2027 are ...
The Essex Book Worm Podcast
The Essex Book Worm Podcast An opportunity for young people to get involved in creating a new book podcast. Are you aged 13-17 years and living in ...
The Final Week
As the festival draws to a close and with temperatures soaring outside, we can’t recommend enough the remaining events still to come across the ...
Celebrating J.A. Baker
After a busy week that took us to Waltham Abbey for a fascinating conversation with Tim Marshall, an entertaining evening with B.A. Paris in South ...
And We’re Off
From Colchester Football Stadium to Grayson Perry’s A House for Essex, stopping off en route at the Museum of Chelmsford and Anglia Ruskin ...
Half term fun at Oi Chelmsford!
As part of our opening weekend we are delighted to be hosting a programme of events under the banner of Oi-Chelmsford! at Museum of Chelmsford this ...
Home Grown Authors
It is always a pleasure to welcome back Festival patron and multi-award-winning Essex author Sarah Perry who was born and grew up in Chelmsford back ...
From the Local to the International
From the local to the international, we are delighted to be welcoming award-winning Namibian writer, publisher and curator Rémy Ngamije to Essex ...