Super Short Story Competition Deadline extended to Tuesday 4th June! To celebrate the 25th Edition of Essex Book Festival, we are inviting young ...
Author: Claire Buskin
Hot off the press: Essex Summer of Culture Guide 2024
We are so excited to be part of Essex’s Summer of Culture! Discover amazing activities, exhibitions and experiences from many of our ...
Countdown to This Land: Launch Day
Can a poem be translated into a picture? Or a recipe? Find out at the launch of this year’s Essex Book Festival… We have workshops galore in the ...
Free event just announced: Much Ado About Numbers
We are delighted that author Rob Eastaway will be joining us at our Midsummer Madness Family Fun Day to give a fun, interactive talk for ages 10+ on ...
Something ‘Wicked’ this way comes to Castle Park Theatre this summer
Following the success of last year’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Castle Park Theatre returns with the Bard’s ultimate ...
Funding announced for Beach of Dreams 2025: a UK wide walking arts festival
We are delighted to announce that we are a partner in Beach of Dreams which has recently been awarded Arts Council England funding as a nationally ...
New Worlds
New Worlds Only a month to go until internationally best-selling author Lionel Shriver ‘hot-foots it’ from Hay Festival to Essex Book Festival. Lionel ...
Taking The Long View
Every year we like to add new venues to the mix. Partly because it’s always fun to go to new places – even if they’re on the doorstep ...
New Event Announced
We are pleased to announce that nature and folk history writer Andrew Millham will be joining the line-up for our fabulous Restless Brilliance Day at ...
Sixty Stories for Sixty Years – University of Essex
Sixty Stories for Sixty Years – University of Essex 1964 – 2024 University of Essex are celebrating 60 years of making change happen. 60 ...