With storytelling slots, free author talks to local schoolchildren as well as a bumper crop of children’s authors on offer, LitFest’s expanded 2023 children’s programme features more events than ever before for all ages.
Families can follow Once Upon a Trail around Marlborough to spot hidden stories in shop windows from 16 September to 1 October and over the LitFest weekend storytellers will pop up around town to entertain younger children, including three slots hosted by The Parade Cinema.
Award-winning children’s poet James Carter will give an action-packed poetry and music performance workshop while author and illustrator Mini Grey will provide a whistlestop tour of the story of life on earth in her new book The Greatest Show on Earth. Master storyteller, author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce will wave his literary wand for both children and adults alike in his talk about his latest children’s adventure, The Wonder Boys.
This year’s Sixth Form Debate features 12 students from St John’s Academy Sixth Form battling it out in front of a public audience. This year’s subject: “Can male writers ever really write accurately about women in love?”
LitFest is delighted to once again offer a number of free author talks for local schools during the festival, this year featuring children’s authors Nizrana Farook, Christopher Edge and Chris Vick.
Our free children’s activities are kindly supported by Hamilton Trust, The Arts Society Swindon & Kennet and Haine & Smith Opticians.
HOW TO BOOK TICKETS
Online: www.marlboroughlitfest.org
By telephone: 0333 666 3366
In person: The White Horse Bookshop, Marlborough, and from the Box Office in the Town Hall over the festival weekend. Please note that the bookshop cannot take orders by telephone.
