Writing by the Sea- Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
What's it all about then ? One might associate Budleigh Salterton with Noel Coward, with Giles Wemmbley-Hogg but not with literature. However, as the current exhibition in the Fairlynch Museum reveals, it has long been associated with writers from a wide range of genres. The 2009 theme was“Adolphus and All That…” as a tribute to Thomas Adolphus Trollope, a well-established novelist and writer in the latter half of the 19th Century, elder brother of Anthony Trollope.
Who? 2010 TBA
When? 2010 24-26 September, 2010
Where? In various venues around the town including the Public Hall, the Temple Church and St Peters Church as well as the Budleigh Playhouse. Budleigh Salterton is in Devon. AA Route Planner | multimap
How much? Check site but most £5 some more.
Festival Website: www.budlitfest.org.uk Email: reader@budlitfest.org.uk
Previous Festivals? Michael Morpurgo, Hilary Mantel, Val McDermid, Sarah Harrison, Virginia Ironside, Pamela Neville-Sington, Simon Brett, H.R.F.Keating, Sheila Mitchell and Michael Foreman will be discussing their work. But there will also be performances of Charles Dickens (by Gerald Dickens, his great-great-grandson), Samuel Taylor-Coleridge (by Dennis Harkness) and an evening devoted to the life and work of Hilaire Belloc by Sue Lawley, Hugh Williams and Hugo Swire MP.
What can I expect in 2009? There will be workshops – Martin Sorrell will be conducting one on “Writing plays for radio”, fringe events will include two workshops on fiction and poetry as well as local authors reading from their work. Children will be also amused by the Morpurgo, Foreman and Dickens performances as well as readings for pre-school children in the library.
The festival will end with a screening of the film, “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”, introduced by Nigel Cozens, a friend of the late John Fowles.
Fringe Festival: EAST Budleigh is to play host to a group of local writers and poets taking part in Budleigh Salterton's first literary festival, September 18-20.
A festival fringe event will take place at Salem Chapel on Sunday September 20, run by the East Devon Writing Group.
The writing poetry session will be held from 2.30pm until 4pm, followed by a poetry reading, book sales and signings at 4.15pm.
Budleigh Salterton poet John Payne will be supporting the event.
Tickets for the poetry writing workshop are available from Budleigh Salterton Tourist Information Centre.
Festival Author Book Cover Art Below. Click on cover for information from Amazons data-base
Info below courtesy Wiki
About the town
The town lies at the mouth of the River Otter, where the estuary forms an area of reed bed and grazing marsh, an important haven for migratory birds and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The pebble beach and cliffs are part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage site, although this is an arrangement of geographical convenience, rather than being correct from the geological time point of view. Much of the geology is Triassic, represented by bunter sandstone (Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds) and the area is also famous for the radioactive nodules containing vanadium and uranium in red marl at Littleham Cove.
The town is almost entirely residential, with most businesses being situated in the High Street, Fore Street and Station Road (at the High Street end). It is also famed for its elderly population. It came bottom in a 2003 survey of towns giving value for money to homebuyers. Near the town centre is a park, known as The Green.
Fairlynch Museum in the town is a small local museum housed in a listed thatched building. It covers the history and geology of the region, and offers a programme of exhibitions and a local archive.
Festivals and events
* Gala Week – a series of fundraising events, organised by the Lions, held during the last week in May.
* Festival of Music and Drama – the inaugural festival took place in August 2005, and is now an annual event.
* Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival - held annually in September. First festival 18th-20th September 2009
* Budstock - an annual one-day festival featuring local bands, usually at the beginning of August.
* Sundown - an annual 3 day computer arts demoparty, held every September since 2005.
* Imperial College Operatic Society visits Budleigh Salterton for two weeks in late July / early August (every year since 1966) to perform a musical. This year's show will be Sweet Charity. There are usually ten performances including at least one matinee.
* Christmas day swim, where mad local residents rush into the sea on Christmas morning
* Boxing day raft race down the River Otter, local reidents and groups make their own rafts and launch them down the river from Otterton to Budleigh.
- Budleigh Salterton (DMOZ.org)
- East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty website
- Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
- Otter Valley Association
- Budleigh Salterton: Geology of the Wessex Coast
- Budleigh Salterton Croquet Club
- Budleigh Salterton Baptist Church
- East Devon Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust
