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A Penguin Books vending machine has been installed at Exeter St Davids train station!
2024 is the 5th anniversary of Exeter receiving its UNESCO recognition as a City of Literature, becoming part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
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Budleigh Salterton
Is creative writing taught or is it something you learn the hard way? And what does it really take to sustain a life as a novelist
today?
Two novelists, a generation apart and with different approaches to creativity, have very different views on…
Budleigh Salterton
Were so thrilled to welcome back Jennie Godfrey with her brilliant second novel, in
conversation with festival president Cathy Rentzenbrink.
Summer, 1985. Neighbours gather for a Live Aid barbecue on Delmont Close but behind the bunting and small…
Budleigh Salterton
All of us are familiar with the unsettling sensation of overwhelm. It's as if there's ever more to do, and ever less time in which to do it. But there is a way out!
Addressing particular problems that can trap us into feeling overwhelmed, from…
Budleigh Salterton
Can a book change the course of your life?
One Christmas, Festival President Cathy Rentzenbrink, drained by life's upheavals, turned to her first literary love, Agatha Christie, for comfort and finds something deeper. Revisiting the novels and the…
Budleigh Salterton
Join Arvon and Booker-shortlisted novelist Andrew Miller for an inspiring fiction workshop that asks: what fires you up as a writer? What truly engages your curiosity?
Whether you have dreams of writing a novel but are yet to begin, or youve made a…
Budleigh Salterton
Who really slayed the dragons? Join mythologist Jasmine Elmer as she uncovers the hidden history of female dragon slayers in Slay .
Across cultures and centuries, dragons have symbolised danger, chaos and the unknown but the stories weve inherited…