Jacqueline Wilson will be amongst many authors at this weekend's Eastbourne LitFest
Eastbourne will be having its first ever Literary Festival this weekend with talks from different authors including Dame Jacqueline Wilson.
Eastbourne LitFest is coming to town this weekend with events starting on Friday, September 25.
Workshops, talks and readings will be held all over the town.
The events had already started last week, to open the festival there was a free writers’ workshop in Old Town on Tuesday, September 15. As part of the festival there will also be a a playing of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Eastbourne Bandstand tonight (Wednesday, September 23).
Eastbourne LitFest also said: “We are hugely proud of what Eastbourne LitFest is already achieving. Our programme reaches into schools, community spaces and across our local landscape, connecting people through books, writing poetry and creativity.”
Other events include a talk from Dame Jacqueline Wilson at The Birley Centre on Saturday, 26 September.
Kate Coffey will be hosting a Tarot for Creativity at Green Up Your Space.
Crime authors will host a talk called Crime Fiction of Trial: cosy mystery versus gritty drama in the court room at Town Hall.
The inaugural event is funded by various sponsors including award-winning playwright Christopher William Hill, Josh Babarinde MP, author and journalist Lucy Mangan and Dame Jacqueline Wilson. The festival is also given pupils the chance to have funded author visits in their school.
The festival added: “Thanks to Angie Thomas and funding from local schools there will be a special screening of the film The Hate U Give, in the cinema at Towner Eastbourne – giving every young person who attends a signed copy of the book its based on.”
Each event is individually priced and tickets are available now.