Penzance Literary Festival 2012

Help us plan pz-litfest 2012!

Have you commissioned your 2012 diary yet? Here’s something to put in it: the third Penzance Literary Festival will run from Wednesday, July 25th, to Sunday July 29th. Please keep those five days free!

Right now planning for pz-litfest 2012 is gathering momentum – and we’re in brainstorming mode! We have a great theme for 2012 – ‘Journeys’! It’s a broader and more encompassing theme than you might think at first. We don’t mean just travel and exploration of foreign parts: we take ‘journeys’ to include journeys through life, exploration of the works of authors, dramatists, story-tellers, poets and songwriters, and discovery of how other people feel about and make sense of what they read and hear and see. (Don’t be put off by our calling it a ‘literary’ festival: that just means it’s all about words!’)

We’ve already made a start. We have a very promising bunch of ideas, mostly – we’re pleased to say – for sessions very different from those that we’ve put on before … but we want more! So please get in touch -

- If you’re an author and have a book recently or about to be published, and would like to talk about it with an interested audience. Not just readings, please: we have found that by far the best sessions are ones where speaker and audience interact.

 - If you’re a budding author and would like to meet with other budding authors (yes, we know writing is a very solitary occupation!) to share experiences, maybe get some feedback on your own work, or take part in a writing workshop. 

 - If you’re a Cornwall-based publisher, or you publish books with a Cornish interest, and you and your authors would like to meet and talk with a Cornish audience.

 - If you’re a poet experienced in reading to an audience. We particularly love poetry sessions where the poet tells us something of how he or she came to write each poem, and our audiences have found sessions where two or three poets ‘spark off’ one another especially enjoyable.

- If you’re an aspiring poet and would like to take part in an ‘open mic’ session and/or a poetry-writing workshop.

- If you’re someone who appreciates novels or poetry. We’d like to have a session or two next year on appreciating the writings of a particular writer or poet. If you belong to a book group we’re sure you’ll have a worthwhile contribution to make.

- If you’re a story-teller. Our audiences love stories, especially where there’s some audience participation involved.

- If drama is your thing. We’d love to strengthen the drama element in the Festival. If you can put on a performance, talk about play-writing and performing, or run a workshop, or you would like to take part in a play-reading, you’ll be welcomed very warmly indeed. And The Acorn is an ideal venue.

- If you’re a singer-songwriter. We do like singers who perform their own original material. And again, The Acorn is the perfect venue for you.

- If there’s a particular subject of local interest that is dear to your heart and you enjoy talking about. Especially if it’s something that can be illustrated visually, with photographs or paintings or film, or musically. (Yes, we’re into ‘multimedia’!)

 So, if any of these strike a chord with you, please get in touch. Email us:

info[at]pz-litfest.org.uk

We look forward to hearing from you.