From Friday 26 November, residents can have their say on Essex County Council’s new vision for Libraries as the draft Everyone’s Library Service ...
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A new spectacular anthology
“Witty, experimental, clever, thought-provoking and sometimes plain laugh-out-loud” Colchester WritenightShort Prose CollectionEdited by ...
World premiere of a chilling tale of Essex witch hunts
From 7th – 30th October 2021 at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch – see the production of The Witchfinder’s Sister by Beth Underdown, ...
AGM Announcement
The AGM for Essex Book Festival will be taking place on Thursday 23rd September at 3pm online via Zoom. For more information please contact ...
Join Syd Moore for The Reading Round
Have you wanted to be part of a book club but never had enough time to read? Now the Royal Literary Fund have introduced a new type of reading group – ...
Essex Book Festival Bookshop
This year we have set up an online book shop with all of our 2021 Authors and Event connections in one place. Bookshop.org is an online bookshop with ...
Good News about Essex Book Festival 2021
Thanks to a generous grant from Arts Council England, our successful Crowdfunding Project, and continued support from our other funding partners, ...
From Marconi to Melba – The Centenary of First British Radio Broadcasts by Tim Wander
Tim Wander’s latest book From Marconi to Melba was written for the Centenary of the First British Radio Broadcasts from Chelmsford. Find out ...
The Green Shoots writing competition
The Essex Book Festival presents the Green Shoots writing competition, for writers aged between 18 to 28 who wish to develop their craft whilst ...
Essex Book Festival in the News
Here at Essex Book Festival HQ we have been unseasonably busy for the time of year. We’re thrilled to have been featured in the local news, ...