Author: Claire Buskin

Writing on the Inside: continuing our work with Essex prisoners

We were delighted to host our first Crime and Punishment Symposium at the University of Essex as part of the Festival programme in partnership with ...

We fulfilled our pledge to make 1000 Peace Cranes

When we embarked on our mission to make 1000 Origami Peace Cranes as part of our commemoration of the end of WW1, we never imagined that we would ...

Tower Tales: Let’s Go Fly a Kite

For Essex Book Festival 2018 we invited Ruth Raymer to be writer-in-residence at Jaywick Martello Tower. Ruth spent a week at the tower, talking with ...

Ruth Raymer’s Tower Tales

For Essex Book Festival 2018 we invited Ruth Raymer to be writer-in-residence at Jaywick Martello Tower. Ruth spent a week at the tower, talking with ...

Re-mapping the Tower: our Jaywick Writer-in-Residence Ruth Raymer

For Essex Book Festival 2018 we invited Ruth Raymer to be writer-in-residence at Jaywick Martello Tower. In this entry Ruth talks broadly about her ...

Snapping the Stiletto seeks Poet-in-Residence

“Snapping the Stiletto” is a two year project by Essex County Council, exploring how Essex women’s lives have changed since 1918. The project has ...

SNOWMAGEDDON: is my event still on?

Well, the festival has got off to a terrific start, despite the snow. We launched on Wednesday with Billy Bragg, who drove through the blizzards to ...

Essex Prose and Poetry Competition

Age UK Essex invite you to take part in their Essex Prose and Poetry Competition 2018. Here are the details: TELL US YOUR STORY… Your memories ...

Bard of Barking joins Essex Book Festival Line up

2018 Essex Book Festival features a cricket commentary legend, crime-writing royalty, some of science’s biggest brains and so much more! Next year’s ...

Golden Age of Crime: Make a Weekend of it!

Essex Book Festival’s Golden Age of Crime Weekend is being hosted by Park Inn by Radisson Palace Hotel in Southend-on-Sea. This magnificent ...