Poet, artist and filmmaker Imtiaz Dharker is 2019’s Chester Literature Festival Guest Director and Artist in Residence. Her poems and…

Listen to a short reading from a local author, poet or storyteller to start the Literature Festival day.

A chance for the whole family to pull up a beanbag, get comfy and listen to a wide variety of storytellers and tales.

Novelist and historian Mary Chamberlain, dance-storyteller Akeim Toussaint Buck and award-winning journalist and novelist Michelle Jana Chan discuss the theme of displacement in fiction and storytelling.

Neil Oliver was born to love Great Britain. During his 20 years travelling to every corner, and whilst filming BBC2’s Coast, he’s fallen in love all over again.

Akeim Toussaint Buck’s autobiographical solo blends dance, song and spoken word to explore ancestral memory and the shifting, increasingly urgent politics around the movement of people.

Roger McGough’s exuberant new collection joinedupwriting contains his signature wit, irreverence and vivacity, showcasing the nation’s favourite poet at his finest.

Teacher, poet, comedian and ‘internet sensation’ (The Sun), Mark Gristwants to learn how to rap. His students can do it, so it should be easy, right?

Join illustrator, author and suffragette descendant Kate Pankhurst as she tells the stories of some of the most amazing women who blazed the trail for women in the world of work.

Author Jim Whalley and Illustrator Stephen Collins share their tale of baby Frank, whose famous zoo is under threat from a new rival!

A cast of the country’s quickest comic performers conjures up a brand new ‘lost’ Jane Austen novel based on nothing more than a title suggested by the audience.

An epic story about friendship, faith, life, death, foxes, snow buddies, and trying to do the right thing, from one of the UK’s most acclaimed storytellers

Queen Victoria: a little old lady, spherical in shape, dressed in black, perpetually grumpy. Right? Historian Lucy Worsley wants to make you think again.

Stepping Tiger DJs are currently in residence at The Kitchen, Storyhouse every Sunday 3pm-7pm. Residents will be joined by special guest…

Authors Anna Mazzola and Zoe Gilbert discuss what draws us to folklore and folk tales, and the influence these stories have had on their writing.

Join Ed as he takes a long hard look at himself and tries to decide if he has ANY traits that are worth passing on to his children.

HoneyBee is a new play written by the award-winning poet Eleanor Dillon-Reams , combining spoken word, dance, stand-up and a thumping festival-driven soundtrack.

Suzanne Stewart will tell the story of how Psychology’s current research renaissance has grown from the “replication crisis”.

In his new book, journalist, television presenter and author Gavin Esler explores the Brexit that is arriving.

Prize-winning British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus reads from his debut book The Perserverence. With BSL interpretation.