Medway River Lit

Summary of Medway River Lit 2024.

The fourth weekend of Medway River Lit featured an amazing variety of talks, discussions and writers.

Medway River Lit's third weekend began on Friday 15 November with a takeover by Big Trouble at our regular Poetry Republic event.

We were delighted to host an award ceremony as part of Medway River Lit for the inaugural Medway Youth Laureate scheme. The poets were...

Medway River Lit's second week began on Wednesday 6 November at Rochester LIbrary, with a sobering talk from climate scientist Bill...

Coming up at Medway River Lit's second weekend.

A summary of events on the first weekend of Medway River Lit.

Festival co-director, Barry Fentiman Hall introduces our Friday night poetry strand - Poetry Republic.

Melissa Todd, referred to by a reader as 'the thinking person's dominatrix', shares her experience of writing through grief.

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

Sarah L Dixon talks about seeing Take That at school, and her new 90s indie inspired poetry collection.

We are excited to say that our first podcast for The River Is Lit podcast series is now available on Youtube and Soundcloud.

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

Tips on how to write a prize-winning poem for the Rosemary McLeish Poetry Prize.

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...