Ann Gray and David Woolley have published a dozen volumes of poetry between them. They will read from 'Dear Life' and other works

We invite you all to join us at Stoke Youth and Community Centre where we shall share the big community poem

Yet another opportunity to see an array of local talented writers & authors at a convivial venue

Your chance to see ten writers display their range and creations for your delectation

Join Plymouth’s Laureate of Words 2025-27, R.C. Thomas, and his shortlisted cohorts, Samantha Carr, Nica Cornell and Cate Taylor

Join Plymouth Laureate of Words R.C. Thomas and The Village Hub at Stoke Youth and Community Centre for an evening of discovering, reigniting and reinventing the stories of Stoke’s community

Live Writing session with two local authors, Arun Sood and Davina Quinlivan, at The Little Box at The Box, Plymouth. Free to attend, no booking required.

Live music with Jason Singh and Malcolm Richards at Bookbag's pop-up bookshop in The Little Box at The Box, Plymouth. Free to attend, no booking required.

Join Scarlet Tiger Press, Plymouth's only small press publisher, to celebrate the launch of Stonework.

A creative family workshop for children and young people to imagine a more sustainable future through storytelling and drawing.

Join us for an afternoon of poetry and music. Through fun writing exercises and games suitable for all ages and abilities, we will learn about the connection between poetry and music, some basic poetry techniques, and write music-inspired poems.

Unleash creativity and explore the joy of poetry together in this engaging 2-hour workshop suitable for all ages and backgrounds.

This is an opportunity to listen to new writing, commissioned and published work (poems, stories etc) and loved extracts focused around the theme of 'Freedom'.

Central Library will be welcoming former Plymouth Laureate, Thom Boulton to deliver an interactive session based on his exciting new book, Wild Children.

Suitable for children 7 years and over and their families. No booking required. 

2025 marks the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth in Hampshire. This lecture by Hazel Jones, a Jane Austen specialist, will feature contemporary maps and other early-nineteenth century travellers' impressions to illustrate the places she visited and to reveal the locations she might have drawn on for the names of fictional houses and villages.