Mercury Theatre will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of VE Day this Friday 8th May, with a range of exciting, safe, socially distanced and online ...
Author: Claire Buskin
Event guest presents Jim Al-Khalili with personal portrait
During Essex Book Festival 2020, quantum physicist, author and broadcaster, Jim Al-Khalili gave a talk about his first ever novel, Sunfall. After the ...
World Book Night – 23rd April
World Book Night is run by The Reading Agency, a national charity that tackles life’s big challenges through the proven power of reading. It is a ...
Upload – Calling all writers, poets and storytellers
Here is your chance to showcase your talent on the BBC. You can upload any kind of content: audio, video, text and images to the BBC via their upload ...
Writing to get you through: A six-week online writing workshop
Cath Drake, poet and nonfiction writer, is running a six-week online writing workshop called ‘Writing to Buoy Us’ which begins on the 9th April. ...
The Reading Agency – helping you stay connected during Covid-19 isolation
The Reading Agency staff have collaborated on a toolkit containing their programmes’ digital resources as well as ideas on how to stay connected ...
BookBound 2020: the world’s first antiviral literary festival
Monday 27 April to Sunday 3 May 2020 A new online literary festival has been launched bringing authors and readers together online for 7 days of ...
We’re launching our Criminally Good Crime Writing Story Competition
To make up for the disappointment of cancelling this year’s Golden Age of Crime Weekend at the Park Inn Palace Hotel in Southend-on-Sea, Essex Book ...
Get Bunting!
To mark Essex 2020: A year of Science & Creativity, Essex Book Festival is working with its partners and friends to create a giant snake of ...
Essex Book Festival Announcement
It is with a very heavy heart that we have taken the decision to cancel the final events of this year’s Essex Book Festival. The safety of our ...