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Sign up NOW for our Readers to Writers creative writing project!
Primary schools across Shropshire are coming on board now with Bookfest for Readers to Writers 2027 and we’d encourage you to sign up early to guarantee your school’s subsidised place.
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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...
A reflective study day on the Literature & Art of the First World War
The University Centre Shrewsbury very kindly hosted our Study Day on 31 October.
Children Remember the First World War with author, Hilary Robinson
Children’s author Hilary Robinson visited Button & Bear Bookshop in Shrewsbury on 20th October 2018 to introduce her latest...
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