Chester Literature Festival
Welcome to Chester Literature Festival 2017- Storyhouse
What's happening in Chester Literature Festival?
Welcome to the autumn and our annual Literature Festival taking place in its incredible new storytelling home – Storyhouse.
This year’s festival of words has a weekend of events and installations directed by award-winning poet Hollie McNish, so expect to be immersed in her poetry in the most unexpected locations…
A raft of talented writers is set to make this year’s Chester Literature Festival a celebration of all the wonderful things that Storyhouse has already achieved in its first six months. These are inclusive, exciting, high quality events that will entertain, inform and provoke. Get up close to your favourite writers and experience poetry, history, fiction, music, politics, and even a pub crawl; Chester Literature Festival will brighten up a wonderful week this autumn.
Explore the brochure here:
- Activities: Book Club Various
- On Stage: Hollie McNish: Plum and other stories Garret Theatre
Activities
Book Club
Welcome to Storyhouse Book Club! Love reading? Hate reading? Need an excuse to read? Don’t know what to read? Come…
On Stage
Hollie McNish: Plum and other stories
Garret Theatre
Tickets for Saturday 10 November on sale soon Hollie McNish has thrilled and entranced audiences the length and breadth of…
On Stage
Roderick Williams & Ensemble Deva
Baritone Roderick Williams is accompanied by Storyhouse’s Ensemble Deva for this wonderfully atmospheric new setting of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 1798…
On Stage
Lemn Sissay: Something Dark
Lemn Sissay returns to the Chester Literature Festival, this time performing a dramatic full stage reading of his award winning…
On Stage
Adverse Camber: Dreaming the Night Field
Garret Theatre
The ancient Celtic legend of The Mabinogion comes to the fore again (after the festival’s Petals and Claws activity) as…
On Stage
Ben Fogle: English
What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite – or is…
On Stage
LipService: Mr Darcy Loses the Plot
Award-winning comedy duo LipService, makers of Withering Looks and Inspector Norse celebrate Jane Austen’s life 200 years on. Jane Austen…
On Stage
The Devil’s Violin: Stolen
Garret Theatre
A young woman goes missing. The search for her uncovers secrets which threaten to destroy her family…. The Devil’s Violin…
On Stage
Jeremy Vine: What I Learnt
In the age of Brexit and Donald Trump, is the world now being run by Radio 2 listeners? If you…
On Stage
Laura Barnett & Kathryn Williams: Greatest Hits
Garret Theatre
Laura Barnett, bestselling author of The Versions of Us, and Mercury-nominated singer Kathryn Williams come together to present a special…