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Frome
is a town of enormous charm, with its steep, winding streets,
its wealth of beautiful old buildings and its friendly, relaxed
atmosphere.
It has more listed buildings than any other town in Somerset
and remains the biggest of the five Mendip towns. Frome is renowned
for its thriving Arts community and boasts a high number of resident
authors, poets and performance artists. Tickets
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Saturday
5th July |
 Illustrated
talks and discussion on 'Going Green: the architecture of life
and death'With Ken Worpole, Graham Burgess and John Payne. 2-4 pm Community Education Centre. Tickets 3.50 from Festival Office |
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Ken
Worpole is one of Britain's leading writers on urban and cultural policy and his books have been widely praised. |
 Graham
Burgess, currently writing a book on Green Architecture,has taught Eco-Architecture courses at Bath University. |
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John
Payne is a Bath-born researcher and writer on lifelong learning and social issues in England and Spain. His 'Journey up the Thames' was been much acclaimed and 'Catalonia' will be published next year. |
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Sunday
6th July |
| Angel
Bride: Installation with Light, Sound and Text 2-9pm Merlin Theatre Stage Free See Saturday 5th July - with 2.00 – 4.00pm Poetry Workshop £4 Crysse Morrison leads this optional exploration of the creative stimulus and inherent narrative of this work. |
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Monday
7th July |
| Poetry
Cafe Special at the Garden Cafe, Stony Street 7-11pm (for 7.30 start) Tickets 2.50 on the door |
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Featuring
performance poets fnf, whose debut at the International Women's
Day Cabaret in March 2003 went down a storm. |
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Tuesday
8th July |
| Workshop:
Crouching Words, Hidden Talent 10.30am-12.30pm Festival Club £6(£4)
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| Who's
Afraid of Sylvia Plath? A debate on the life and work of Sylvia Plath led by biographer Tracy Brain and local author Karen Sainsbury. 7.30-9.00 pm Frome Library Tickets 3.00from the Library |
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Tracy Brain is a full time lecturer in English and Creative Studies
at Bath Spa University College. Her highly acclaimed book 'The
Other Sylvia Plath' is published by Longman. |
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Karen
Sainsbury is a novelist with Orion. Her debut novel, 'Powder
Monkey' was published last year. She lectures part-time in English and Creative Studies. |
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Wednesday
9th July |
| Mid-fest
Writing Workshop 10.30am - 12.30 pm Community Education Centre, Frome College. Tickets 4.50 from Festival Office |
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Want
to do more than just watch? Here's your chance to take an active
part in the festival. Alison Clink who writes short stories for IPC Magazines is running this one-off workshop for writers and would-be writers. All welcome - just bring pen and paper. Phone 01373 463131 for more details |
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| Literary
Lunch with Lindsay Clarke 12.30 for 1pm Mendip Lodge Hotel Tickets details to follow |
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The
Frome Literary Lunch is an established 'jewel in the crown' of
festival week, and this year will be no exception, with a delicious meal in the beautiful dining room of Mendip Lodge and a chance to listen to Whitbread prize-winning author Lindsay Clarke talking about writing fiction. Lindsay Clarke has won international acclaim for his best-selling novel 'The Chymical Wedding'. His most recent work is 'Parzival and the Stone' from Heaven. |
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Thursday
10th July |
| Filmwriting
Course with Dave Lovatt 10am-4.30pm Community Education £10 This one-day course, both for beginners and for those with some writing experience, aims to provide the inspiration and know-how to create your own film script. The course will look at how to use, and subvert, classic character archetypes and stories, and will explore scene dynamics, real dialogue, character development and how images can replace words. A proportion of the day will be devoted to developing and working with your original ideas. Dave Lovatt has over ten years experience in screen writing and script editing and last year won Best Film at the First Light Awards. Please book early - Maximum 15 |
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Word, Wine,and CheeseTasting Frome Library 7.30-9.30 pm Tickets 5.00 from the Library |
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wine and cheese on a literary cruise around the world compered
by Peter Macfadyen, with fiction extracts from Wales to America,
Spain to Africa, read by local writers who have been influenced
and inspired by them. Gallic interval entertainment. This exciting and innovative event is organised by Somerset Library Service and supported by Frome & Selwood Slow Food Convivium and Sagebury Cheese. Readers: Alison Clink, Trevor Day, Jill Miller, Crysse Morrison, John Payne, Karen Sainsbury and Hazel Stewart. |
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Friday
11th July |
Writers are finding it harder and harder to get published, yet publishers continue to seek an authentic 'voice'. What are the qualities that make contemporary fiction special? London literary agent Jane Judd joins established author Richard Francis and new novelist Kate Harrison, to answer this question for aspiring writers and interested readers. Chaired by Trevor Day. |
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Judd was an editor for 15 years before setting up her own agency. She represents authors in mainstream fiction and non-fiction: |
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Francis has published thirteen novels, most famously 'Fat Hen',
and lectures in English and Creative Studies at Bath Spa University
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| Kate Harrison works in London as a TV director; she represents the tiny proportion of debut novelists who survive the 'slush pile'. | |||
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| Jane Judd will also be available for individual one-to-one consultations during the afternoon at the Library for anyone with a manuscript ready for submission - an invaluable opportunity for writers to discuss publication options and get a first-hand professional response to their writing. See words@fromefestival brochure for further information. |
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Saturday
12th July |
| Children's
Fiction - talk by popular children's author Jeremy Strong for ages 7-11 11am-12noon Frome Library Tickets 2.00 from the Library |
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Laugh
your head off as Jeremy tells you about the cow with a Swiss Army Udder
and how to put jam in the donuts, and reads from one of his books. Award winning author Jeremy Strong has published over 60 books for children, including 'Krazy Kow' and 'The Karate Princess'. |
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| "What
Happens Next?" Crime Masterclass with writer Mike Lewin Community Education Centre 2 - 4pm Tickets 4.50 from Festival Office |
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Every
writer and reader asks what's going to happen next. In this interactive
workshop Mike Lewin uses one of his own stories to put you in the
writer's mind as possible answers to the question are explored. A professional writer of novels, stories and plays, Mike's website is www.MichaelZLewin.com |
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