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Exeter became the only UK destination in 2019 to be awarded UNESCO City of Literature status, and is now one of 66 cities internationally that have been added to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
Exeter was recognised for its 1,000 year unbroken history of making books and popularising reading since the early 13th Century. Today there are some fantastic literary hubs across the city, such as the Quay Words project, housed at Exeter’s Custom House and supported by Literature Works, where writers and performers are encouraged to try their hand at all kinds of writing or to experience and learn from others' work. Find out more about our UNESCO City of Literature status on our City of Literature blog post, or visit the Exeter City of Literature website.
See the list below for literary, poetry and spoken word events in Exeter.
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Come join us for Exeter Open Mic for singer songwriters and poets.
A friendly and supportive evening that is designed to promote original material, community and a chance to make some friends as well as performing your own music and poems.
If you…
Exeter
Join us for the premier of Summer writer-in-residence Sophie Dumont's commissioned poems created during her _Maritime-_themed residency. Sophie will be joined on stage by emerging writer participants who took part in her workshops during summer.…
Exeter
Visitors to the Institution will be able to peruse our display, exploring links ...
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Visitors to the Institution will be able to peruse our display, exploring links ...
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Exeter Library has an extensive 'Special Collection' of books dating back as far as 1480, and we would like to invite you to come into Exeter Library for a special viewing.
Usually, these books are available to view by appointment only, but to…
Exeter
David has studied the ghost stories of Torbay for nearly 30 years now and is certain that Agatha Christie would have been aware of most of them during her lifetime.
Through his storytelling, David will take you on a journey that connects Agatha to…
Exeter
KILLING GANDHI, DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY & INDIA AT THE CROSSROADS
In this session...
Exeter
An opportunity to view primary sources from the University of Exeter's Special Collections' archive of correspondence and papers from the office of Agatha Christie's literary agent, Hughes Massie & Co Ltd. and hear internationally recognised expert…
Exeter
Record-breaking adventurer and author Adrian Hayes takes audiences on a journey through the jungles, seas, deserts, ice caps and mountains of the world that he has devoted much of his life to exploring
Budleigh Salterton
We bring together two exciting voices in literary fiction, both with new novels around stories of summer and chance encounters. Barney Norris is a novelist and playwright whose accolades include the International Theatre Institute’s Award for…
Budleigh Salterton
What does it mean to be an explorer in the 21st century? The acclaimed wanderer describes what impelled him to head for the farthest reaches of our planet – at a time when there were still valleys and ranges known only to the remote communities who…
Budleigh Salterton
This year's Festival Read is the extraordinary fifth novel from the multi-award-winning writer, Charlotte Mendelson; a dazzling exploration of art, sacrifice, toxic family politics, desire, and
personal freedom. Read it ahead then meet the author…
Budleigh Salterton
One of the UK’s leading brain surgeons, Marsh thought by the time he retired he understood illness, until he was diagnosed with advanced cancer. In an intimate and honest event, he’ll contemplate what happens when someone who has spent a lifetime on…
Budleigh Salterton
As the Union of Home Countries looks wobbly, and more Commonwealth nations seek independence, we’re asking where that leaves England. Once world power house and now looking decidedly isolated, do we just need to get our mojo back? Or do we need to…
Budleigh Salterton
The acclaimed author of _The Language of Birds_ and _The Crime Writer_, Jill Dawson’s latest novel set in the Fens speaks to our times, drawing on the 16th-century case of the witches of Warboys. In a setting steeped in rumour and fear, the book…
Budleigh Salterton
Jill Dawson is widely recognised as an exceptional tutor of creative writing, and has taught on prestigious courses including the Arvon Foundation, the Creative Writing MA at University of East Anglia (where she held the Creative Writing…
Exeter
Bestselling crime fiction author Vaseem Khan takes us on an exhilarating journey...
Budleigh Salterton
Conspiracy theories, misinformation and speculation about Coronavirus, vaccines, the war in Ukraine – fake news now floods social media and some sections of society give unsubstantiated threads more credence than traditional news feeds. But who…
Budleigh Salterton
No other country has reimagined its own past so frequently, or endured such ast differences in ruling ideologies, as Russia. As we once again experience war in Europe, two leading writers ask what do we know of Russia and the man who leads it, how…
Budleigh Salterton
The celebrated biographer, novelist, memoir writer and critic turns her forensic eye on the writer Jean Rhys, the acclaimed author of _Wide Sargasso Sea_ who lived in Devon at the end of her life and visited Budleigh often. Seymour focusses on the…
Budleigh Salterton
We welcome back the historians and authors whose books include _Eavesdropping_ _on Jane Austen’s England_, _Jack Tar_ and _Gibraltar_. Their new book was described by the Daily Mail as ‘_a marvelously original slice of social history’_ in which they…
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