FRINGE BOOK FESTIVAL 18-20 OCTOBER - tickets
Falmouth & Penryn Fringe Book Festival
18-20 OCTOBER 2024
Join us in October for three afternoons and evenings of talks by local authors, workshops, themed quizzes, panel discussions, wine tastings and a writing session with a twist.
Our series of talks and events will introduce you to some amazingly talented Cornish authors and illustrators who in turn will introduce you to their amazing work, let you into their world of writing and spill the beans on their sources of inspiration!
Sponsored by St Austell Brewery, Hermitage Press and Terrace Gallery, the Festival takes place on Friday 18th, Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th of October in the private rooms upstairs in The Chain Locker Pub, Customs House Quay, Falmouth. Our festival doors open for registration from 11:30 each day and refreshments are available throughout the day.
Wednesday 16th – Bookish quiz
Compiled by the infamous Chain Locker Quiz Master. You could win a worthy bar tab and bundles of books by local authors at the Chain Locker Pub, Customs House Quay. And all the proceeds go towards running the Fringe Book Festival. Kicks off at 7:00pm - £1 per person entry.
Friday 18th – Inspired by Cornwall
11:45 - FREE Poetry workshop, run by Ella w Bell the force behind the Mor Poets collective, and highly successful swim/surf poetry collections Morvoren & Mordardah
13:15 - Sue Kittow, Walks in the Footsteps series and two popular semi-autobiographical books based in Cornwall
14:15 - Lisa Woollett, Lost to the Sea, a fascinating alternative history of the eroded edges of Britain & Ireland.
15:15 - Rob Magnuson Smith, Seaweed Rising, a modern, contemporary fiction which has a narrative theme and touches on environmental issues.
16:15 - Jodie Matthews, Meet me at the Surface, a haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home.
17:30 - Helen Trevaskis, Hope for Cornwall, a beautifully illustrated book which tackles the housing crisis
Saturday 19th – The power of the short story
12:00 - Tracey Dockree and The Cornwall Writers will introduce their third anthology - Cornwall Beneath and Beyond - an eclectic collection of short stories which capture the essence of the Cornish spirit beneath windswept cliffs, beyond ancient ruins and embedded in the mysterious folklore of the county
14:00 - Emma Timpany and Sarah Jane Humphrey will talk about Botanical Short Stories - a rich and wide-ranging collection of contemporary writing which celebrates the deep connection that exists between people and plants in fourteen short stories, as varied, diverse, and global as the botanical world itself.
16:00 - Authors Clare Howdle, Gareth Rees, Luke Thompson and Emma Timpany discuss Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections (Hermitage Press 2024), an anthology of short fiction inspired by Cornwall's protected landscape.
19:00 - Read between the wines, hosted by author and co-founder of the Stranger Collective, Clare Howdle, will take you on a wine tour with literary accents at Falmouth’s best cafe - Espressini, 39 Killigrew Street Falmouth TR11 3PW
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Sunday 20th – Crime and Passion
12:00 - FREE hour Shut up and Write session for budding authors and those working on a piece of writing or novel. Hosted by Paula Winzar and crime writer Roz Watkins. SU&W gives you a precious hour of uninterrupted time to work on your project, with optional socialising afterwards to meet fellow writers.
13:15 - Anita Hunt, short story writer and debut novelist of Behind The Curtain - a newly released heart pounding domestic Noir thriller.
14:00 - FREE 2hr long Sketching session around the historic location of The Chain Locker with 13 Cornish Ghost Stories illustrator Derek Hayes and Urban Sketch artist Dave Pentin
14:30 - Bex Hogan, author of the Black Heat, The Viper and Bronte Tempestra series, will introduce her latest book Nettle - a heart wrenching tale of danger, deception and mystery in a strange world.
15:45 - Jo Jakeman, author of Safe House, Sticks and Stones and What his Wife knew introduces her new book One Bad Apple - a twisty and wickedly funny murder mystery
17:00 - Crime & Passion panel discussion with the widely published Roz Watkins, Liz Fenwick, Jodie Matthews, Jo Jakeman etc.
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS: this year we are giving you the opportunity to donate what you can from £2.50 to £20, choose which is applicable to your situation.
Our festival is run by volunteers, our talks and events are kindly given free by the authors and our sponsors help pay for the publicity materials, so please donate within your means but as generously as you can to ensure we can continue to run this amazing festival.