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Sidmouth
Would you like to develop your creative writing skills and meet other writers
This fun, friendly session will offer practical exercises to enhance your writing skills and release your creativity.
Writers at all levels of experience are welcome and…
Sidmouth
Would you like to experience a day where you develop your writing skills, meet other writers and are part of a fun, friendly group The day will cover a range of exercises to help you create interesting characters and intriguing plots as well as free…
Exeter
World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker's heart and humour has been watched by millions online and allowed him to perform all over the world, until suddenly he couldn't. From reviewing toilet seats online to writing falafel-based diss tracks for…
Exeter
Cost: Free to attend (bring your own book!)
Location: The Hour Glass Inn, 21 Melbourne St, Exeter EX2 4AU
Silent Book Club at The Hour Glass Inn, every third Tuesday of the month
You asked and we listened, so buckle up for double the (quiet) fun…
Sidmouth
Would you like to develop your writing skills, meet other writers and be part of a fun, friendly group This five week course will offer a range of practical and inspiring exercises. You'll learn how to create characters, develop plots and explore…
Crediton
Join us for an evening with author and investigative journalist Holly Watt, winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the best thriller of the year in 2019 with her debut To The Lions.
The Last Truths We Told is about old friends and new…
Exeter
Exeter’s poetry platform presented by Alasdair Paterson and Liz Adams.
Each month we host a new headlining poet.
Haven Road, Exeter
Cost: Free to attend (bring your own book!)
Location: Upstairs Bar, Topsham Brewery, EX2 8GR
Silent Book Club at Topsham Brewery, every first Wednesday of the month
You asked and we listened, so buckle up for double the (quiet) fun with TWO…
Exeter
Are you a writer for performance based in or around Exeter? Join us on the first Thursday (7-9om) of each month for the Exeter Playwrights Cafe.
These informal sessions are a space where you can share extracts of your work, receive feedback,…
Exeter
Sean Conway set out to achieve something no-one else on the planet had ever managed; ultra-endurance records for first, longest, fastest and most 105 Iron Man competitions in 105 days, the first to swim the length of Britain, the fastest unsupported…
Exeter
This intensive one day course is designed for those new to scriptwriting looking to push their work to a professional level.
Run by locally based script editor Lucy V Hay, this session will draw on the importance of scriptwriting as the starting…
Torquay
Award-winning wildlife photographer and filmmaker Gordon Buchanan will hit the road in 2025 with his biggest-ever live tour Lions and Tigers and Bears with Gordon Buchanan.
Hailed as Scotland’s own David Attenborough, Gordon Buchanan has dedicated…
Exeter
This March we are delighted to welcome back Anthony Joseph to the Exeter Custom House, for a reading from his new selected poems Precious and Impossible.
Featuring exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades…
Exeter
After a run of sold out shows up and down the UK, Hollie McNish is back with a brand new book, Lobster and other things I'm learning to love. A Sunday Times bestselling writer whose live readings are not to be missed, expect strong language and…
Exeter
Pam Ayres has spent a lifetime providing hilarious and profound insights into the delights and tribulations of everyday life.
She returns to the Mercury to talk about her latest book, DOGGEDLY ONWARD - A LIFE IN POEMS, 1970 to 2020s, published in…
Exeter
London and Manchester-based spoken word artist, writer and saxophonist Angus Fairbairn, who goes by the name Alabaster dePlume.
Torquay
Spend an evening in the extraordinary company of Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE - ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’ - as he goes beyond his record-breaking achievements to explore the man behind the myth.
Sir Ranulph has circumnavigated the surface…
Exeter
We are thrilled to welcome back Pascale Petit to the Exeter Custom House, for a reading from her latest poetry collection Beast.
About Beast
Mythic and familial beasts roam the swamps and moors of Pascale Petit’s Beast. These spirits of the…
Newton Abbot
The first Craft Festival was founded in 2003 in Bovey Tracey, Devon and is a non-profit making organisation and we celebrate our 20th Anniversary in 2024. Our first Festival has grown from around 2,000 visitors to over 10,000 visitors since it…
Budleigh Salterton
Situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on East Devon’s World Heritage Site, the Jurassic Coast, Budleigh Salterton hosts the most outstanding literary festival in South West England.
As a registered charity, our mission is to celebrate…
Great Torrington
RHS Garden Rosemoor in winter provides the perfect backdrop for the annual Winter Sculpture Exhibition.
Each year, at a time when winter colours and scents delight and low bright sunlight creates long shadows and glistening frost, we select a…
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