Essex Book Festival
What? The festival aims to encourage readers to widen choices and has a strong commitment to new writers, partnering their events with reading groups.
The festival has a clear artistic policy which governs the programming of the festival. The aims include:
- To inspire, challenge and entertain the people of Essex, the Eastern Region and visiting audiences through the provision of a quality programme of events with new and established writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry
- To provide a wide range of voices reflecting gender, disability, race, culture and sexual orientation of contemporary society
- To ensure the programme of authors/performers is accessible to a variety of audiences
- To reach out to new audiences for creative writing events and for reading
Who? 2010 TBA
When? March 2010
Where? In various locations in the County of Essex, England (not Essex, Connecticut, USA just in case you get lost) AA Route Planner | multimap
How much? Some 2009 Events Free. Others up to £12
Festival Website: :http://www.mercurytheatre.co.uk/bookfestival
Previous festivals: Melvyn Bragg, Roy Hattersley, Helen Dunmore, Justine Picardie, Barbara Erskine, Joan Bakewell, Xinran, Mckenzie Ford, , Jojo Moyes, John O' Donoghue, Liu Hong, Julia Jones.
publishers note: when researching this page we came across the blog of the Essex Library located in beautiful Essex, Connecticut, USA. Libraries, gorgeous the world over..
