We’re really looking forward to this year’s Children’s Festival.
Save the 2024 dates in your diary now – Friday September 13th 2024 for our Poetry Prizegiving and Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th for our children’s speakers. To keep up with our programme announcements, Sign up for our Newsletters here.
Entries are now open for our Young Poets Competition 2024. They will close on Saturday June 8th 2024.
Read the Rules and download the Schools and Individual Entry Forms here.
Catch up with photographs of our 2023 Poetry Prizegiving and other 2023 Children’s Festival events.
The speakers and performers included Jacqueline Wilson, performance poet Debra Bertulis, author and illustrator Krina Patel-Sage, Maximus the Mouse author and illustrator Kim Ansell & Lisa Read and CLiPPA Prize poet Kate Wakeling . We also celebrated the 13th year of our Young People’s Poetry Competition. Read all about it here. See last year’s winners with Daisy Goodwin who presented the prizes.