Literature

Helping kids in the year of Covid: Free creative workshops

21 October 2020

Making History is a Lottery-funded project designed to encourage young people to express their emotions and experiences relating to COVID-19 and the London lockdown. Platinum Performing Arts is inviting children aged 9-18 from the Enfield community to take part in free creative workshops at Millfield House - pottery, dance, poetry, spoken word, fitness & wellbeing and more!

Can you write a spooky story?

07 October 2020

Enfield Libraries are running a spooky story competition for young writers aged 6 to 9, 10 to 13 and 14 to 17.

A PG poet's take on love in the age of Google Maps and Alexa

27 September 2020

A debut collection of poetry by Palmers Green resident Arun Jeetoo will be launched online this weekend. I Want to Be the One You Think About at Night is published by Waterloo Press. Jeetoo's poems have been described as 'agile, sensual and achingly honest' and 'pulling at the throbbing veins of love'.

WEA Enfield & Southgate: Book now for autumn courses

31 August 2020

Enfield & Southgate WEA has a number of exciting courses running this autumn and all are available for booking now on the WEA website.

Inspired by the pandemic? Get your writing published in Lockdown Lit

19 August 2020

A local writers' circle is seeking submissions for an anthology of creative writing inspired by the coronavirus experience. Lockdown Lit - Imagination in Isolation will be Bounds Green Book Writers' first publishing venture.

Autumn courses with Enfield & Southgate WEA

19 July 2020

Enfield & Southgate WEA's autumn courses will all be held online, using Zoom.

WEA courses move online and most are now free

19 June 2020

WEA courses and activities have moved online and for the time being are free, so where you live becomes irrelevant. On the one hand, you now have the chance to enrol in courses run by WEA tutors throughout the country, but, on the other hand, people from other parts of the UK will now have a chance to grab places on your favourite Enfield & Southgate courses. So don't delay, enrol today!

The first Tottenham Literature Festival

14 October 2019

From 1 to 9 November, the Bernie Grant Arts Centre is presenting a bold and new festival of words right at the heart of one of London's most diverse boroughs.

New bookshop to host launch of local author's paperback

10 September 2019

A new cooperatively run bookshop in Wood Green will be running a double celebration on 20th September, to mark its official opening and to launch the paperback edition of a local author's debut novel.

Celebrating the All Good Bookshop

26 August 2019

Local author Stephen Cox celebrates the opening of a co-operatively run bookshop in Blue House Yard, near Wood Green Station.

Seeking refuge

18 June 2019

It is Refugee Week from 17-23 June, and there are seven 'simple acts' to raise awareness of the refugee experience. One of them is to 'share a story' in order to learn more about the point of view of refugees themselves. Helen Swinyard shares The Boy at the Back of the Class. (Originally published in Tottenham Community News)

Palmers Green Tales interviews Jeanne Willis

19 February 2019

Palmers Green Tales has published a three-part interview with award-winning children's author Jeanne Willis.

Three writers, one local street, one book deal

12 February 2019

A new comic novel, by three local authors living in the same road in Palmers Green, is to be published this year by Unbound - a farcical story, told in emails, about an imaginary writers group.

Plaudits for local author's debut novel

16 January 2019

Local author Stephen Cox is launching his debut novel, Our Child of the Stars, on 24th January

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Edmonton festival offers photography and poetry prizes

29 April 2018

The Lamb Festival 2018: Saturday 16th to Friday 22nd June. An arts Festival at All Saints, Edmonton, to celebrate the lives and legacies of Charles and Mary Lamb. You can find the wonderful 2017 Festival Diary here - save the dates and come and join us! (And don't forget - for the fourth year running, there's free admission to ALL Festival events, so why not come and try something new?) 2017 LAMB FESTIVAL DIARY As before, there will be poetry and photography competitions - three prizes.......

Enfield Literary Festival details announced

08 April 2018

The dates and speakers at the 2018 Enfield Literary Festival have been announced. It will be held at the Dugdale Centre from 22nd to 30th June. The lineup below is incomplete, but is already pretty impressive. The theme is "Change". The Festival is billed as "Enfield's first ever Literary Festival", which fails to acknowledge that there have already been four Lamb Festivals held at All Saints church in Edmonton (which arguably isn't Enfield, but that argument is rather.......

Writing group looking for new members

19 February 2018

Palmers Green Writers Group are looking for new members. We are a small group of writers living in the Palmers Green and Southgate area. We meet fortnightly to offer constructive feedback on each other’s work in a friendly, informal setting. We enjoy all forms of creative writing, including novels, short stories, poems and scripts. Whether you’re starting out or well on the way to being published, so long as you’re serious about writing, you’ll be welcome. Email Alex.......

A successful début for the Enfield Literary Festival

31 January 2018

Palmers Green writer Alex Woolf was one of the presenters at the first Enfield Literary Festival(Photograph: Anne-Marie Sanderson)Last Saturday's first Enfield Literary Festival event attracted a roomful of people, young ahd old, to the recently refurbished Edmonton Green Library, keen to learn more about the trade secrets of locally and internationally acclaimed writers and hear about the borough's literary history. Participants were able to hear talks and take part in creative.......

Last Saturday in January - the first Enfield Literary Festival

10 January 2018

If you are a creative writer or would like to become one, or just love reading and would like to know more about the writing process, then book your place at the first Enfield Literary Festival, to be held on 27th January in the refurbished Edmonton Green Library. Speakers include London writer Catherine Johnson and children's author Alex Woolf. (Alex was one of the people behind the amazing Palmers Scream project in 2015.) There will also be a talk about "hyperlocal journalism" - the.......

Poetry and photographic prizes to celebrate Edmonton's literary siblings

12 April 2017

The Lamb Festival: An Arts Festival at All Saints, Edmonton, to celebrate the lives and legacies of Charles and Mary Lamb. This year's Lamb Festival will take place from 17th to 23rd June at All Saints Church in Edmonton. As before, there will be a photographic competition, but this year instead of an essay competition there will be prizes for the best poems There will be separate categories for schoolchildren (who must be at an Enfield school) and an open category (open to residents of.......

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