Shoreham Wordfest

Shoreham Wordfest 3 - 16 October

Shoreham Wordfest has a rip-roaring programme celebrating words and ideas for their 2022 festival which will run from 3-16 October.

Headliners include Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, with his band LYR, BBC news presenter Clive Myrie and a full cast production of Under Milk Wood performed by The Dylan Thomas Theatre. For the first time Shoreham Wordfest features a full-day festival of crime writing: Fatal Shore, hosted by best-selling authors Elly Griffiths and William Shaw. There are 12 other top writers appearing including Kate Mosse, Dorothy Koomson and Vaseem Kahn. Following the crime-writing theme, Wordfest patron Simon Brett will be in conversation with Lynne Truss before performing his one-man play Lines of Enquiry. Actresses Sally Lindsay and Sue Vincent will talk about co-writing their Channel 5 series: The Madame Blanc Mysteries, There will be a “State of the Nation” discussion with journalists Rafael Behr, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Economist Stephanie Flanders and Gary Gibbon, the political editor of Channel 4 News. The Future of Our Health Service will be discussed by the former Chief Executive of Sussex Hospitals Trust, Dame Marianne Griffiths and Jeremy Hunt MP. There is plenty of local talent featured including writer Judy Upton who often features in Inside magazine, historian Chris Hare with a talk on “Shocking Shoreham,” and Southwick’s Attila the Stockbroker has a double bill with comic poet Henry Normal. There will be a whole day on environmental issues, a Ceilidh and a final party: something for everyone in the vibrant atmosphere of Shoreham-by-Sea.

Tickets and full information available from www.shorehamwordfest.com

Tickets also available from Shoreham Art Gallery, 27 Brunswick Road, BN43 5WA and the Wordfest stall at Shoreham August 13 and 27 and September 10 and 24.