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Announcing the shortlist for Big Book Award 2026…
We are very excited to reveal the six books shortlisted for Big Book Award 2026. Each of them has been enthusiastically recommended by Year 5 and 6 pupils in Shropshire primary schools. Between them, they spent 8 weeks reading more than 70 titles nominated for the Award by leading UK publishers – all published in
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Book Award 2020 is getting ready to launch!
“The project encourages children to read novels they would not normally venture into. It stretches the most...
WINNERS of the Creative Writing Competition 2019
Dame Jacqueline Wilson led the prize giving ceremony at a public event in The Square, Shrewsbury on...
We are….21 years old!
When Shrewsbury Bookfest organised its very first May Festival in 1998, it was the only literature festival...
Pity of War Concert DVD now available…
You are now able to watch again, share and remember the very special concert that took place...
Packed house for the Bookfest Creative Writing Conference
100 teachers gathered at University Centre Shrewsbury on 14 November to mark the launch of the Bookfest...
My subject is war and the pity of war…
Shropshire-born Wilfred Owen is regarded as the finest poet of World War one. Tragically at the age...
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