Tuesday 4th - Folkestone Literary Festival

[10AM]
Storytelling session (0-5yrs)
Whole World Café
They are Jenni and Lindsay, two story-making sisters from Folkestone. Please come along and enjoy a coffee while they tell the tales of Lottie Cupcake and many others! This event is free, although we urge you to buy a drink while your little ones enjoy the stories.
FREE

[11AM] & [1PM]
John Hegley and Nicola Davies
with BBC Radio Kent’s Jo Burn
Leas Cliff Hall
Don’t miss your chance to hear John Hegley, one of the country’s most innovative performance poets. His anthologies include My Dog is a Carrot and The Sound of Paint Drying amongst many others.

John Hegley will be preceded by Nicola Davies, writer, zoologist and former presenter of the BBC’s ‘The Really Wild Show’.
If there’s an animal you love she is bound to have an amazing fact up her sleeve.
In this fun and lively interactive event, you may even learn how to speak Whale!.
FREE FOR SCHOOL GROUPS
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
Sponsored by Folkestone Town Council.
Transport for schools is sponsored by Crosskeys Coaches.

[1.30PM]
Creative Writing Workshop
with Patricia Debney
University Centre Folkestone
Canterbury’s first Laureate in 2007, Patricia Debney is the author of a collection of prose poetry, How to Be a Dragonfly and a novel Losing You. Using exercises and feedback her workshop is open to anyone interested in capturing stories, whether you arrive with a character or situation already in mind - or need a jumpstart. All levels of experience most welcome.
£6 / £5

[3.30PM]
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Isaac Rosenberg: The Making Of A Great War Poet
University Centre Folkestone
One of the First World War literature’s leading authorities, Jean Moorcroft Wilson focuses on the relationship between Rosenberg’s life and work. Based on all known Rosenberg material and a mass of important new discoveries this major biography marks the 90th anniversary of this outstanding poet-painter’s death.
£5 / £4

[5PM]
Nicholas Murray
A Corkscrew is Most Useful
University Centre Folkestone
At the height of the British Empire, countless travellers set off to explore the globe. Drawing on the travellers' own unique and colourful accounts, Nicholas Murray gives an informative and detailed portrait of a diverse collection of explorers all as equally intrepid.
£6 / £5

[6.30PM]
Short Story Competition
Judging Event
Costa Coffee
Our panel of judges: short stories award winner Carys Davis (Some New Ambush, 2007), Canterbury Laureate Patricia Debney (Losing You, 2007) and novelist Sandra Howard (A Question of Loyalty, 2008) will announce the winners of this year’s short story competition; an opportunity to hear the short stories and congratulate the winners.
FREE

Alex Horne
Wordwatching
Can one man deliberately invent a successful new word? Is it possible to break into the dictionary? Perrier nominee Alex Horne has been trying to invent a new word for almost three years. Follow his progress in this multi-media neologistic bonanza tracking the highs and lows of this secret linguistic campaign.

DAN ANTOPOLSKI
Penetrating Gaze
Perrier nominee Dan Antopolski’s new show features good jokes, crafty links, simulated anger and home-made raps. Dan hopes you can come.

‘Risky, surreal genius one expects from Antopolski at his best.… a wildly original talent worth checking out.’ Struan MacKenzie, Edinburgh Evening News.
£10 / £9