UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
We are launching the 2025 Exeter Novel Prize on July 16th at Exeter Library (doors open 6pm, 6.30 start and 8pm finish) We will also celebrate the release of Cathie Hartigan’s new novel, The Luthier’s Promise.
Attendance by invitation and the guest list is now closed.
The Writers’ Hub - 17/18 September -
Buldeigh Salterton Literary Festival
Curated by Word Kitchen, the Festival is premiering a Writers’ Hub Marquee exclusively for local and South West writers. This is a new and exciting opportunity for local writers (Devon and beyond) to meet and mingle and engage in discussion with a variety of panel members including publishing industry representatives and authors.
The Writers’ Hub will be a space for writers to meet, write and network, attend bespoke sessions, and engage with South West literary organisations and groups. Each day will offer a facilitated writing time, at least two panel discussions, a writers’ circle, and a Happy Hour with special guests.
The mini-marquee (next to the main Festival marquee) will only be available to passholders - click here to obtain your pass. On each of the two days, the pass will give free access to all panel sessions, a reading area where writers can place copies of their own work for fellow writers to browse, breakfast writing sessions, time and space to network and chat, and - between 5 and 6pm - a Happy Hour with special guests, a free drink and nibbles. There will be an Open Mic on Thursday evening just across the road at Brook Kitchen (home to Word Kitchen’s Budleigh Open Mics.)
Our Next Open Mic will be in Budleigh Salterton at Brook Kitchen as part of the
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival - Thursday 18th September.
This will be the concluding event of the 2-Day Writers’ Hub we are curating in the mini Marquee as part of the festival. Pass holders will have full access to all of the events in the marquee, from writing sessions to panel discussions with author speakers, industry professionals. South West literary organisations and projects will also in the tent sharing information about what they do and how they can support your writing, along with lots of mingling and mulling opportunities, a 5-6pm Happy Hour with Special Guests!! each day, and a reading nook where authors can leave a copy of their work for perusal. It is going to be EPIC!! Our own writers’ lounge!
Tickets are £10 per day, £15 for the 2-day pass. Available here
Time limits for open mics -
Prose - c700 words /< 7 minutes of reading
Poetry - 5 minute limit
email sidmouthdavid@outlook.com to book reading slots
for all events, go to WORD KITCHEN to buy tickets
Readers don’t have to pay but it is very helpful if they do in terms of us covering expenses!
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Edward Tripp’s Spring Clean plus poetry open mic
We are VERY excited about this! Word Kitchen is proud to present the former Bard of Exeter and all-round superstar: it is going to be funny, edgy, thoroughly entertaining.Edward Tripp’s SPRING CLEAN. Tickets £5.50 - https://www.wegottickets.com/event/604960“
A powerful poet, one of a kind, playful but poignant, and his utterly unique blend of wordsmithery and performance s sure to astound and stick in the memory.”
Guaranteed to be a brilliant evening; a couple of open mic slots still available in the first half. Email lloyddavidjohn@gmail.com
Prose Open Mic
A marvellous array or writers and ideas being shared in the convivial setting of Brook Kitchen, Budleigh Salterton, including Elizabeth Delo and Orlando Murrin. Come and listen, be inspired, sign up to read next time!
Writing Workshop
A creative writing session to get the juices flowing in the run up to our first prose Open Mic. Pippa will offer succulent prompts to get the pen moving across the page, and author Elizabeth Delo will talk to us about her journey to publication. Free. FULLY BOOKED
Dunkeswell Youth Club
A series of writing sessions to cook up ideas about character and place, and how to get a story going. We will share some of our work too, when we are ready! Everyone welcome.