What’s On Calendar
A comprehensive guide to literature events in Cumbria and a little further afield.
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Week 
Day 
Agenda 
Exhibition – Dorothy Wordsworth: The Wonders of the Everyday – Grasmere (until 5 January)
Wednesday @ 9:30 am – January 5, 2014 @ 5:30 pm
Over the last 100 years, Dorothy Wordsworth has been increasingly seen as vital to William Wordsworth’s creative imagination. This exhibition is the first ever [...]
Melvyn Bragg on ‘Grace and Mary’ – Wigton
Saturday @ 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Melvyn Bragg talks about his new novel, Grace and Mary, a profoundly moving story spanning three generations. John visits his ageing mother Mary in [...]
Poetry reading, Grasmere – The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition
Saturday @ 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Now in its 27th year, the Poetry Business Competition has discovered some of the most exciting talents in poetry, including Mimi Khalvati, Michael Laskey, Daljit [...]
Poetry workshop with Martin Malone @ Tullie House, Carlisle – CANCELLED
Sunday @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED** Explore the Tullie House art collection with award-winning poet Martin Malone and use artworks as an inspiration for your [...]
Story Time workshops with Ian Douglas @ Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House
Sunday @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Storyteller Ian Douglas has set up home for the day in one of Blackwell’s lovely inglenook fireplaces. Book on to this family workshop and [...]
Brewery Poets, Kendal: Jean Harrison & Pauline Yarwood
Friday @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Jean Harrison is retired, writing steadily and has poetry published in a number of magazines and in two collections published by Cinnamon Press, Junction [...]
Walking Stories : Leaving Footprints – writing workshop with Geraldine Green, Ulverston
Saturday @ 10:30 am – 4:30 pm
“A single walker, stepping into the procession of language.” Seamus Heaney In an exploration of actual and imaginative space, these four creative writing workshops [...]
Residential Creative Writing Course, Castle Douglas
Tuesday @ 9:30 am – June 5, 2013 @ 5:00 pm
Dumfries & Galloway’s landscape, people and places have been the inspiration for many writers – poets, novelists, playwrights. If you have ever been [...]
South Lakeland Storytelling Club, Ings
Tuesday @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Taffy Thomas and friends have been hosting this session in the lounge bar at the Watermill Inn at Ings (near Windermere) for over 10 [...]
Melvyn Bragg on ‘Grace and Mary’ – Carlisle
Thursday @ 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm
Melvyn Bragg talks about his new novel, Grace and Mary, a profoundly moving story spanning three generations. John visits his ageing mother Mary in [...]
Speakeasy – open mic night, Carlisle
Thursday @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
It’s back. The newly formed Source Collective have announced that the first Thursday of the month is Speakeasy night. Come and read, come and [...]
Litcaff @ Merienda, Carlisle
Wednesday @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Carlisle’s monthly open mic night where the accent is on fiction – with pieces of up to 1,000 words allowed – but poets are [...]
South Lakeland Storytelling Club, Ings
Tuesday @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Taffy Thomas and friends have been hosting this session in the lounge bar at the Watermill Inn at Ings (near Windermere) for over 10 [...]
Speakeasy – open mic night, Carlisle
Thursday @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
It’s back. The newly formed Source Collective have announced that the first Thursday of the month is Speakeasy night. Come and read, come and [...]
Litcaff @ Merienda, Carlisle
Wednesday @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Carlisle’s monthly open mic night where the accent is on fiction – with pieces of up to 1,000 words allowed – but poets are [...]
Speakeasy – open mic night, Carlisle
Thursday @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
It’s back. The newly formed Source Collective have announced that the first Thursday of the month is Speakeasy night. Come and read, come and [...]
South Lakeland Storytelling Club, Ings
Tuesday @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Taffy Thomas and friends have been hosting this session in the lounge bar at the Watermill Inn at Ings (near Windermere) for over 10 [...]
Litcaff @ Merienda, Carlisle
Wednesday @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Carlisle’s monthly open mic night where the accent is on fiction – with pieces of up to 1,000 words allowed – but poets are [...]
South Lakeland Storytelling Club, Ings
Tuesday @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Taffy Thomas and friends have been hosting this session in the lounge bar at the Watermill Inn at Ings (near Windermere) for over 10 [...]
Speakeasy – open mic night, Carlisle
Thursday @ 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
It’s back. The newly formed Source Collective have announced that the first Thursday of the month is Speakeasy night. Come and read, come and [...]
Wild About Poetry- LOCATING THE NEST May 2, 2013
- WORKING THE FURROWS April 21, 2013
- THE BIG SUBJECT April 7, 2013
- BHDandMe’s Blog
- The Fall, by V.S.Pritchett May 13, 2013
- Yes May 5, 2013
- Untitled April 28, 2013
- A Writer’s Life
- Up to London in a posh outfit May 17, 2013
- Tuesday Poem: An Interview with Sylvia Plath May 13, 2013
- Fiesole - Etruscans, compensations and good company May 12, 2013
- The Printed Land
- The Hill of the Winds April 16, 2013
- Storms April 6, 2013
- A fierce and subtle alchemy March 5, 2013
- Elizabeth Stott – to blog or not
- Good coffee, bad coffee May 15, 2013
- Nightjar May 11, 2013
- Edible Casings May 4, 2013
- Esmeralda’s Cumbrian History & Folklore
- Bega of St. Bees: the Irish princess, nun, or pagan relic? April 30, 2013
- Tourist trinkets, Roman-style March 6, 2013
- The genius cucullatus, or the Original Hoodie January 29, 2013
- Letters from the Lake District
- World Book Night at Florence April 24, 2013
- Music and comedy in equal measure April 13, 2013
- Capturing the soul March 28, 2013
- somewhere nowhere
- New Location April 8, 2013
- #55 The power of a photograph March 23, 2013
- #54 How many lambs? March 12, 2013
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