Just turn up
and enjoy!
Why not mingle with authors, festival goers, writers, poets and musicians. Wear your festival badge with pride and hang out and chat in the warmth at:
The Playhouse café
The Alnwick Playhouse, Bondgate Without, Alnwick
Upstairs at The Salts Delicatessen & Provisions. Fine foods & local produce,
Bondgate Within, Alnwick
An informal, late-night opening to celebrate the start of our festival and meet local authors! Browse after hours and there’ll be cake + fizz + soft drinks
Pauline Murray, lead singer of the first wave of punk band Penetration, will be reading excerpts from her new book Life's a Gamble: Penetration, The Invisible Girls and Other Stories, signing records and chatting all things punk.
If you can’t train your own dragon, you can certainly make one. Come on down for some self -guided crafty fun and learn how to draw, make and create your very own fire-breathing masterpiece.
Workshop created by Open the Book, a national venture by the Bible Society, using the Lion Storyteller Bible for children by Bob Hartman. Open the Book takes teams of people into schools to dramatise Bible stories and share an understanding of the Christian faith.
A short storytelling session with a monster surprise at Robinsons, your independent Alnwick department store, where you'll find our handpicked women's fashion, accessories, homewares, gifting and more.
Please note this session must be pre- booked by email or phone
Want to explore the world of Dungeons and Dragons? Want to give the world of board games and fantasy adventure a whirl but don’t know where to begin? Mark Coulter and Anneka Thomspon, both Dungeons and Dragons super-fans, will show you how to set up your first game. If you fancy righting wrongdoings with your friends, do come along for this fantasy game and story-telling session.
Meet the vampire of Alnwick, a fairy queen and a dragon and drink some gin at The Taste of Northumberland with Neil Osbourne, founder of Northumberland Spirit Company.
Featuring fantastic local talent in the comfort of a unique local pub with an excellent selection of local and craft beers. Bring your instruments, voices and support to the fantastic Tanners Arms.
If you can’t train your own dragon, you can certainly make one. Come on down for some self -guided crafty fun and learn how to draw, make and create your very own fire-breathing masterpiece.
Romantic fiction writer Caroline Roberts is a bestselling author of eleven contemporary fiction novel about romance, friendship love and loss, family and community. EB Bridal is a luxury bridal boutique in Alnwick, Northumberland.
Angels of the North highlights forty women who are either from the North-East or have strong connections to it. All of them are women to be proud of. Co-authors RT HON Joyce Quin, academic and politician and Moira Kilkenny, local historian,
will be signing books at the at Northern Angels shop, an ethical lifestyle brand inspired by influential women from the North.
Pistol Pete Wearn is a solo acoustic blues artist who performs raucous and upbeat material accompanied by slide guitar and a stomping foot. His music has been played on BBC 6 Music, described as “as true as it gets” by Blues Blast magazine and twice-awarded ‘Solo Blues Artist of The Year’ by Moonshine Magazine. He is currently touring material from his lockdown YouTube cover series Sunday Morning Blues, as well as originals and crowd favourites from past projects.
Paul draws his inspiration from north-east landscapes and characters and is widely published. His latest collection (2022) features his poem Lindisfarne Light which was part of an installation by artist Paul Rooney at Lindisfarne Castle. Many will know of his prizewinning short story A Canny Day Oot.
Please note this session must be pre- booked by phone, but it includes a cream tea for £5 which can be paid on the day
Come along and hear our stories through song and spoken word with Alnwick choir The All Stars, with a cream tea for £5.
Tony Williams’s All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten won Best Short Story Collection at the Saboteur Awards. His novel Nutcase was a Read Regional Choice 2018 and his new novel Cole the Magnificent is out this summer. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Northumbria University.
Pete is appearing at the Tanners Arms for those who can’t make the afternoon session or those who can’t get enough incredible blues music. Here is your chance!
Chat to Annabella Baker, author of three self-published books in one-to-one sessions where she takes you through her journey from idea to publication and gives advice on how you can write and publish your book in three simple steps.
· Have you just wanted to write a book and get your stories out there?
· Is your book ready to be published but you don’t know where to start?
· Are you worried that self-publishing will cost a fortune?
Don’t know what to read? Stuck in a reading rut? Let our trained bibliotherapist recommend your next favourite read after asking a just a few short questions
Pop in for a beer and Peaky Blinders fashion fitting and find out if you have Peaky Blinder potential at the Hotspur 1364, a designer menswear boutique in the centre of Alnwick.
Every day we’ll crank up the book-based playlists - pop in pop on a headset and give it a spin as the shopfloor becomes a dancefloor
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