Simon Armitage at Nantwich Words and Music festival
Simon Armitage will be appearing at the Crown Ballroom, Nantwich on Thursday 10 October as part of the Nantwich Words and Music festival. And that’s not all … Write Out Loud’s Laura Taylor will be giving her usual storming performance at the festival at 5pm on Saturday 12 October, and at 3.15pm on the 13th. Fresh from her triumphs at Commonword Superheroes of Slam and at Manchester's Women in Comedy festival, Joy France will be performing at Nantwich on Saturday 12 October as well.
PHOTOGRAPH: DAVID ANDREW / WRITE OUT LOUD
OCTOBER
Durham book festival, until 29 October
Havant literary festival, 1-11 October
Cheltenham literature festival, 4-13 October
Ilkley literature festival, 4-20 October,
Morley literature festival, Leeds, 5-13 October
North Wales international poetry festival, Clywd theatre, 7 October
Manchester literature festival, 7-20 October
Nantwich words and music festival, 7-13 October
Marsden poetry jam, jazz festival, Huddersfield, 11-13 October
Sheffield Off the Shelf festival of words, 12 October- 2 November
Chester literature festival, 13-27 October
Lancaster Litfest, 16-20 October
Ryedale book festival, Malton, North Yorkshire, 19 October
Wantage literary festival, 19-27 October
Torbay festival of poetry, 24-28 October
NOVEMBER
Aldeburgh poetry festival, 8-10 November
Organisers, send us links to your festivals at news@writeoutloud.net, and we will endeavour to list them here, if they include poetry events. You can also upload individual festival events yourselves on our renowned Gig Guide.
