Presentation of Litfest

Gordon and Jocelyn Simms will be in the library to talk about the upcoming Litfest to take place in St Clémentin from June 24th – 26th 2016 where you can meet authors, poets and story-tellers…join in debates, reading, writing and performance workshops.

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Don’t miss Lemn Sissay’s appearance on Saturday. This is a truly remarkable event in that he is in demand world-wide as a speaker and yet has agreed to join us on the 25^th June. Workshops include:

Ian Mathie, of the much-praised Africa series. Ian will inspire all those who want to shape real-life encounters into exciting prose.

Festival organiser, Gordon Simms, poet and playwright, suggests exercises for writing and presenting duologues.

Roger Elkin holds a Master class in poetry writing

and Katherine Gallagher offers ‘Masks,’ stimulating our imagination through exploring the concept of disguise.

The programme also includes a wide range of readings & discussions with a variety of authors including Patricia Duncker whose latest novel, Sophie and the Sibyl  is a wonderful evocation of the world of George Eliot. See all our events on:  www.stclementinlitfest.com

We’d  also like to remind you that the Segora writing competitions deadline is 15^th June. For further details visit www.poetryproseandplays.com   Exciting and relevant theme for our vignette this time is ‘Water.’ We are delighted to have Roger Elkin (poetry)& Amanda Hodgkinson (short story) joining Gordon Simms(plays) and Ed Briggs(vignettes) as judge, making our 10^th Segora a  very special competition.