Essex Book Festival would like to thank our huge variety of partners, with whom we work within Essex and beyond.
This year Essex Book Festival received financial support from Arts Council England, Chelmsford City Council, Colchester City Council, Essex Libraries, Thurrock Council, Essex County Council’s Writing for Opportunity fund and University of Essex via The Bean Trust.
Essex Book Festival is based within the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Essex’s Colchester campus.
Our Principal Media Partner is BBC Essex.
And this year’s partner organisations who contributed to our programme and overall success include African Families in the UK, Anglia Ruskin University, Appetite Book Club, Beach of Dreams, Chelmsford Cathedral, Chelmsford Community Radio, Chelmsford Theatre, Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester Institute, The Commons Cafe & Community Kitchen, Dorothy L Sayers Society, EA Festival, Electric Palace Cinema Harwich, Essex Cultural Diversity Project, Essex Record Office, Essex Writers House, Explore Essex, Felixstowe Book Festival, Global Association of Literary Festivals, Harlow College, Harwich Museum, Historic England, HMP & YOI Chelmsford, Hot Box, Katie Kennedy Design, Kinetika, Lakeside Theatre, Layer Marney Tower, Maldon Books, Maldon Town Council, Mercury Theatre, Metal, The Minories, Museum of Chelmsford, National Trust, Refugee, Asylum seeker & Migrant Action (RAMA), Red Lion Books, Samaritans Colchester, Seaside Explorers, Friends of St Leonards, T100 Festival, Thurrock LGBTQ+ Community Network, Federation of Essex Women’s Institutes.
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