Medway River Lit

Wordsmithery are very proud to announce some of the confirmed writers and performers for the Medway River Lit programme 2024.

Adapting Classic Literature: How Aimee Riddell Brings 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' to Today's Audience

April Doyle, whose debut novel Hive, imagines a near future where there are not enough bees.

Today, we're excited to start sharing some of the people coming to Medway River Lit! 1st up Caitlin Davies, author of 'Private Inquiries'.

We asked our artist Karen Scudder to tell us about the design process.

If you've looked out of the window over the past few years, or watched any television news report, you won't have failed to notice that...

Photos from Wednesday 7 June to Sunday 11 June 2023. (And these are just a few! Check out our social media to see reels from each day.)

We have too many amazing photos from the first Medway River Lit but here are a selection of highlights from the first five days of the...

“Nothing is unwritable”, says Caroline Bird, patron of Medway River Lit, the literary festival which took place last month. “Write it....

Here are just some of the comments we received about the festival! “Thank you so much, this was wonderful. Please don’t leave it another...

"The breadth of different events really was something for everyone and you pulled off some amazing coups with the quality of acts you...

Sascha Aurora Akhtar is a poet of the liminal – someone for whom all is magic. 'The Grimoire of Grimalkin', published in 2007 was greeted...

The Doctor Who connections in Medway River Lit We’ve said that Medway River Lit’s theme is ‘River of words’, linking the past to the...

We are excited to celebrate Medway’s long connection with words and writing, in what will be the first Medway-wide literary festival in...

Fumio Obata (born 1975, Tokyo) is a graphic novelist who focuses on cultural differences and social issues. His style and work are...

Sayra Begum is the author/illustrator of Mongrel, a highly personal debut graphic novel: telling the story of a young Muslim woman...

Expert on the preservation of Black Oak and project leader, Hamish Low, tells us more about the amazing Fenland Black Oak Table - which...

Nina Telegina is a writer and performance poet and a multiple poetry slam winner. She believes that poets can be doing a lot more to...

Patrick Wright is a writer, broadcaster and academic in the fields of cultural studies and cultural history. He has written for many...

Pauline Holmes describes herself as 'a 60 something poet and storyteller with the mind of a child and the wrinkles of someone much...