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2015 Events Announced! Oct 15th-24th

We’re so looking forward to this year’s festival, we wanted to let you know what’s in store as soon as we could. For 2015, we’ve brought together a collective of very different writers with very different voices to build a calendar of events for everyone –…
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Andrew Miller and Clare Clark

What’s happening in October 2014?

In this our fourth year, we’re going low-key while we catch our breath after three big festivals in a row. We’ll be hosting a compact collection of performances, showcases and socials across the weekend of Friday 10th to Sunday 12th October 2014. We’ll have guests from Bristol,…
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Stroll back in time: 2013

To everyone who took part in 2013, as a performer, participant, sponsor, venue, publisher or volunteer, we say a huge ‘thank you’. Scroll down for a flavour of 2013′s events. We are changing how the Festival works, having come this far in the absence of the…
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