Shoreham Wordfest

Shoreham Wordfest Annual Festival

1-20 October 2024

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Shoreham Wordfest,
29th Sept – 20th Oct 2024

Ticket Information

There is a £2 booking fee for each order.

If you wish to be added to the waiting list for events which have sold out please send a request with the subject WAITING LIST to boxoffice@shorehamwordfest.com We will add you to the list and will contact you if we receive returned tickets.

Please note we can only offer refunds for tickets you can no longer use if the event is sold out and we can offer it to someone on the waiting list. We are willing to consider offering an exchange for another event. Please contact boxoffice@shorehamwordfest.com with the subject REFUND or EXCHANGE if you have a refund or exchange request

If you have a carer and wish to request a free place for them please contact boxoffice@shorehamwordfest.com with the subject CARER TICKET

Read programme

The Shoreham Centre

Curated and hosted by authors Elly Griffiths and William Shaw

Tickets

Tickets £10 each panel or £40 day ticket for all sessions

Read programme

This year we have a vibrant performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream from 'Bowler Crab Theatre Company' – in the words of one critic…' What a joy… an amazing cast and a wonderful adaptation of a much loved play…; we have a free concert of songs, music and drama from Shakespeare and his times in the ancient and lovely St. Mary de Haura Church; an Elizabethan song workshop for all comers, with dances for those so inclined; a Ceilidh with a rustic supper, free tot of mead and dancing to the harmonious sounds of Kate's Kitchen Band, to celebrate the great Bard's birthday.

Fatal Shore Crime Writing Festival – All Day Event

“Making Waves”

The Map of Bones: Kate Mosse CBE

Featured, Talk

Join celebrated Sussex author Kate Mosse in conversation as part of the launch tour for her much anticipated latest book, The Map of Bones. A story of adventure and hardship, dispossession and injustice, The Map of Bones is the sequel to the No. 1 bestselling The Ghost Ship, and the fourth and final novel of...

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Sussex Lost and Found: Working Lives across the Centuries

Featured, Talk, Wordfest 24

This whole day event of social history is a new venture exploring various aspects which have impacted the lives of ordinary people in Sussex from medieval times to the start of the twentieth century.
Led by Dr Clive Webb, Professor of Modern American History, University of Sussex and David Johnson, Vice-Chair Sussex CPRE, the Countryside Charity,...

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Pretty, Witty Nell: Starring Jessica Latham - A one-woman tragicomedy about Nell Gwynne

Drama, Featured, Wordfest 24

Written entirely in rhyming iambic pentameter, this award-nominated and critically-acclaimed one-woman tragicomic history tells the true story of Nell Gwynne, the famous actress/prostitute and mistress of the wild British Monarch, King Charles II. Written and directed by the multi award-winning verse playwright, Ryan J-W Smith and produced by Rogue Shakespeare®.
“Smith… the most prolific – and...

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Scoops by Sam McAlister
Featured, Talk, Wordfest 24 Sam McAlister is a BAFTA-nominated producer who has negotiated with everyone from Buckingham Palace to The White House, persuading reluctant individuals to participate in BBC Newsnight interviews, renowned for rigour and bite. Exclusives include that interview with HRH Prince Andrew, but also with President Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, Julian Assange and many others
Sam’s book Scoops! Behind the Scenes of... BOOK NOW
Ghostly Tales of Sussex Marlipins Museum - Saturday
Drama, Featured, Wordfest 24 There is something spooky afoot in Shoreham-by-Sea. The year is 1890 and Julius Douris is a Victorian Ghost-hunter. He needs your help to solve some mysterious goings-on. During this hour-long, one-person show we will be treated to many Sussex ghost stories from Shoreham to Crawley, Hooe, Brighton, Pevensey, Hailsham and more. Although there will be... BOOK NOW
Caroline Lucas: Another England: how to reclaim our national story - In conversation with Anita Sethi
Featured, Talk, Wordfest 24 Caroline Lucas, former MP for Brighton Pavilion and the UK’s first Green Party MP, delves into our literary heritage to explore what it can teach us about the most pressing issues of our time: whether the toxic legacy of Empire, the struggle for constitutional reform, or the accelerating climate emergency. In her new book Caroline... BOOK NOW

Shoreham Wordfest, 29th Sept – 20th Oct 2024

Welcome to “Making Waves” Wordfest 2024, with luminaries such as Hugh Bonneville, Caroline Lucas, Kate Mosse; all-day Fatal Shore Crime Fiction and Sussex Lost and Found social history plus much more. Dive in – with 32 events, there is something for all interests and ages.

Some featured events

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Poetry
Wordfest 24

Poetry for All – National Poetry Day – Free Event

October 3 @ 12:00 pm

The Shoreham Centre

Music
Wordfest 24

Poetry In Motion and The Charlotte Glasson Trio – An evening of poetry, song and jazz.

October 3 @ 7:30 pm

St Mary de Haura Church

Caroline Lucas: Another England: how to reclaim our national story – In conversation with Anita Sethi

October 4 @ 7:30 pm

The Shoreham Centre

Walk

Adur River Recovery Project Walking Tour

October 5 @ 9:00 am

Walk

Talk

Holly Swain Children’s author event at Shoreham Library – Free Event but booking is essential

October 5 @ 10:30 am

Shoreham Library

Ghostly Tales of Sussex Marlipins Museum – Saturday

October 5 @ 1:00 pm

Marlipins Museum

Talk
Wordfest 24

Shackleton, The Man and The Myths: Michael Smith

October 5 @ 3:30 pm

The Shoreham Centre

Scoops by Sam McAlister

October 5 @ 7:00 pm

The Shoreham Centre

Drama
Wordfest 24

Ghostly Tales of Sussex Marlipins Museum – Sunday

October 6 @ 12:00 pm

Marlipins Museum

Film
Talk

For Those in Peril and The SS Suevic Story: David Parker and Galen Bartholomew A film and talk marking 200 years of the RNLI.

October 6 @ 2:00 pm

Ropetackle Arts Centre

Festival Brochure

See the events featured in our 2024 annual Wordfest festival

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Past Events

The Catalyst Club by Shoreham Wordfest
David Olusoga -The Job of a Historian
The Homecoming: Voices of The Windrush Generation – Colin Grant
Local and Live Festival talk – Rewilding the Seas – Henri Brocklebank of Sussex Wildlife Trust
Dr John Froude: Plagued: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Coronavirus
Hilaire Belloc, The Man Who Saw the Future by Chris Hare