Worcestershire Lit Fest & Fringe
About Worcestershire Lit Fest & Fringe
Write Now! . . . with the Worcestershire LitFest & Fringe!
Worcestershire Lit Fest & Fringe Description
The Worcestershire Literary Festival from LitFest & Fringe takes place every June and encompass the following:
• Spoken word performances.
• Author interviews and Q& A's.
• Workshops.
• Open mic sessions.
• Competitions.
• Book signings.
• Children’s events and activities.
• Music that tells a story.
plus much more.
We appointing the Worcestershire Poet Laureate on the launch night and the festival will finish with the Worcestershire Poetry Slam Championship on the final night of the festival.
What are the aims of the Worcestershire LitFest & Fringe?
We aim to develop and support a wide range of literary activities and events, encompassing many venues in the city of Worcester and the county of Worcestershire.
We are continually developing a number of key strategic partnership agreements with local and regional literature organisations, publishers and other organisations such as The Hive, Arts Council England, Writing West Midlands, Worcestershire County Council, Worcester City Council and hope to enhance these relationships and develop many more in the future.
We aim to deliver literary seminars, workshops, events, readings, music that tells a story and various bespoke projects not just during the Festival itself but leading up to the festival and beyond.
Reviews
It's the big day folks! In just a few short hours, we'll have a new Worcestershire Poet Laureate and LitFest19 will be officially open!
This time tomorrow... 😳😳
Friday night is pizza night, especially for our friends and awesome supporters Titania! Fancy showing your quizzing skills? Enter a team to The Great LitFest Quiz & Pizza Night IN! All the details below:
Some talented slammers have graced our traditional 'end of festival' competition. Could you join our honours list? Come along and show us your poetry or prose skills!
Make sure you pop in and check this out during festival week!
Just a few slots left peeps! Email speakeasy@worcesterlitfest.co.uk if you want to let your words fly around The Old Pheasant next week!
Just a few days to go folks! LitFEst19 will be launching in style this Sunday, as we welcome the new Worcestershire Poet Laureate for 2019/20. Who will it be? Well you'll have to come along and find out, won't you? ;)
Anyone else getting ridiculously excited for the return of The Antipoet next week? 42 Worcester certainly are - this will be a corker!
What magical wonders await at the Gallery? Well... The Old Pheasant anyway! Join Suz Winspear and a fantastic line-up of poets in turning our new hub into an area of creative talent!
Some more thanks to dish out to some amazing local businesses, donating some incredible raffle prizes! Our friends at The King Charles II Pub are offering two of their award winning pies to one lucky winner and our sponsors and long time supporters Titania have donated a Amazon Echo Dot! The Festival really wouldn't be possible without this support, we really are so grateful!
We can't wait until we cut the ribbon and open our first ever LitFest hub, thanks to Participate In Art! The Old Pheasant in Worcester city centre will be transformed into an art gallery and information point which will be open from Tuesday 10th June until the end of the festival, with books, art and spoken word all waiting to be enjoyed!
We're so pleased to announce that we now have a 1st edition, signed hard back copy of thriller novel 'The Furies' by the very talented Katie Lowe to add to our raffle! We know this will be very much appreciated by our audience of literary fanatics! Thank you Katie! https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/978000828 8976/the-furies/
Exciting Big Fat Raffle news!.. Pershore Patty have very kindly donated 2 of their wonderful foodie cards which offer you special discounts and deals from the best local places to eat in the 3 counties! This year's prizes are shaping up to be the best yet, thank you so much for your support!
Fancy getting a taste of the wonderful (if not slightly weird!) world of Worcester Writers' Circle? Pop over to their LitFest Special next Monday!
Here come our next set of Big Rat Raffle prize announcements!
We have pizza and 2 drinks to enjoy at the quirky independent music venue Paradiddles Music Cafe Bar and a £25 voucher for the incredible culinary delights of the Smokin Brad’s kitchen operating out of the THE SOCIABLE BEER COMPANY
Make sure you don't miss out on a chance to win one of these awesome prizes and bag yourself some raffle tickets at one of our events!
This! Next weekend! See you at The Angel Centre as we declare LitFest19 officially open!
Fancy slammin' it with some of Worcestershire's finest in spoken word? Our slams are open for both poets and prose writers! The arena will be The Old Pheasant in Worcester - make sure you're there!
Here come some more fabulous prizes for our Big Fat Raffle from some very generous local businesses... The Zen Shed UK have donated a 21 day membership to their beautiful yoga studio and Wayland's Yard have donated delicious coffee and cake for 2 at their cafe! This support means so much to us!