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for poets at all levels of experience. of poets at all levels for Poet and educator Jean Atkin leads a poetryand educator Poet will workshop which you opportunities uncertain unknown, territory. to navigate offer thisEveryone is welcome to inventive and supportive workshop under the hill, or through strange ‘edgelands’ where our towns our towns where ‘edgelands’ under the strange hill, or through the by wild… being retaken are writes Rebecca Solnit. Rebecca writes we know Yet ‘lostness’. and alarmed by to both attracted are We that the being lost might take us through the back of wardrobe, ‘Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark’, the door into the unknown, the door open for ‘Leave Creative Writing Poetry Workshop Creative with Atkin Jean Wednesday 1st September 1st Wednesday THE EDGE AT LOST Talk 4 He has acted as adviser onurbanaffairsHe hasactedthe European asadviser to andinternationally. andlectures nationally reports, extensively andmajor Michael haspublishedover 100books,articles 2019. renaissance continuing in‘ city’s the revisitedfor Herecently better sincethen. the workto update the devoted haschanged city to showinghowmuchthe been partly Michael wrote Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor MichaelParkinson. focusis the for talkfrom afascinating of Liverpool University turbulentre-inventionLiverpool’s over lastfour the decades Talk Prof with MichaelParkinson CBE LIVERPOOL BEYOND THEBRINK Wednesday 1stSeptember the Department of Communities andLocal of Government, Communities the Department the EuropeanCommission, the Parliament, OECD, EUROCITIES, Book tickets atwww.weaverwords.org.ukBook tickets Ticket Source or the BoxOffice 0333 666 3366 Liverpool on the Brink onthe Liverpool Liverpool Beyond the Brink’ Brink’ Beyond the Liverpool in1985.Hiscareer has Tickets: Time: Place: of Honourofin2016. Liverpool 2007 andCitizen Empire toBritish for urbanregeneration in services UKandEurope.the HewasmadeCommanderof the CoreCommittees, andarange in the of Cities cities theHouse ofCommonsSelect AuditOffice, National

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Event 5 ; ‘A Fearful Symmetry’; ‘A (Radio 4) £15, including glass of wine. £15, including glass of Frodsham Community Centre Frodsham 8pm Place: Time: Tickets: His continuing collaboration with composer choral two BBC Proms has led to James MacMillan works and music theatre song cycles, commissions, others. House and Opera His the Royal for operas work includes the BBC4 TVbroadcast film ‘Men verse the by Who Sleep in Cars’ – described Observer as genius” work of “a St Martinwhich won the Sandford Prize; and ‘Last the mark Radio 4 to first commissioned by Words’, anniversary 9/11. of of and is Professor Michael has published two novels, University. Poetry Metropolitan at Manchester , Ransom and Eliot prize- (co-written with (co-written poet Drysalter Edgelands , which re-imagines Manchester as Manchester , which re-imagines Mancunia from the Artsfrom Council and the Society Authors. of He is a Fellow and the English Association. Society Literature of theof Royal urban and rural. urban and rural. His poetry major prizes and major awards has won numerous draw on his non-fictiondraw book fringes between the overlooked which celebrates Farley), Paul winning collection and mythica real city. theme, also he will In keeping with the Words this year’s Weaver from his poems, including his most recent collection his poems, including his most recent from prize-winning Costa and Forward Prof Michael Symmons Roberts Prof Michael Symmons Roberts will be reading broadcaster and Poet MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS ROBERTS SYMMONS MICHAEL poet award-winning from Poetry and readings Wednesday 1st September 1st Wednesday AN EVENING WITH Thursday 2nd September

ON THE EDGE: EXPLORING THE Talk ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING OF ROBERT including the ‘Edgelands’ glossary in Landmarks and MACFARLANE the chapter ‘The Edge’ in Underland. Andy Jurgis Seminar with Andy Jurgis Andy Jurgis is an adult education organiser for the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) and lecturer Popular literature tutor Andy Jurgis returns with a fascinating in literature for University of Liverpool Continuing exploration of innovative writer and poet Robert Macfarlane. Education. Andy combines a keen interest in nature and the countryside with contemporary Robert Macfarlane is one of the most exciting contemporary environmental writing. writers on the environment. Join this seminar for a discussion of a range of his works including ground-breaking books The Wild Place: Frodsham Community Centre Places, The Old Ways and Landmarks, alongside his remarkable Time: 10.30am latest book Underland. Tickets: £8, including tea/coffee. We’ll also refer to his very popular book for children The Lost Words (in collaboration with artist Jackie Morris) with its musical companion piece - the Spell Songs book and CD. In keeping with the festival theme, we’ll be considering the significance of some of Macfarlane’s own ‘edgelands’:

Robert Macfarlane 6 Book tickets at www.weaverwords.org.uk or the Ticket Source Box Office 0333 666 3366 Event 7 one of our one of is a standalone novel is a standalone novel ”, Stephen has won awards on both has won awards Stephen ”, Drowned Lives Drowned £24

Forest Hills Hotel, Frodsham Hills Hotel, Forest 12.30pm for 1pm 12.30pm for Place: Time: Tickets: optionVegetarian available) set lunch and coffee. course (including three Essential Booking Advance Described by the Sunday Telegraph as “ the Telegraph by Described Sunday best story tellers thesides of Atlantic, the including the in Dagger Association.theLibrary His UK Crime Writers’ from the with world, sold all around translationsbooks are in 16 languages. titleHis latest with theme, a story a historical telling hidden of the against and a centuries-old feud, family secrets project. a canal restoration of background is speaker at literary Stephen festivals, A frequent agency the development of writer also a director Writing runs courses and East Midlands and aspiring writers. workshops for Stephen Booth is a former newspaper journalist and author Booth of Stephen is a former in the best-selling Cooper and Fry18 novels crime series, set in the District. Peak course meal, followed by Stephen’s fascinating reflections on fascinating reflections Stephen’s by course meal, followed the between relationship reality fiction in his stories. and Hosted in the elegant surroundings of theof atin the Overton Suite Hosted elegant surroundings a three enjoy to you we invite Hills Hotel, Forest Frodsham’s Fine food and literary insights from award-winning crime novelist crime novelist award-winning and literary insights from food Fine Booth.Stephen Delicious three course lunch and talk withDelicious three novelist internationally award-winning acclaimed, IN CONVERSATION WITH CRIME WITH IN CONVERSATION BOOTH STEPHEN NOVELIST Thursday 2nd September September 2nd Thursday LITERARY LUNCH: Thursday 2nd September

AN AUDIENCE WITH MARK RADCLIFFE Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi

Event crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil’s Legendary BBC radio presenter, writer and musician infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself in conversation with Mick Ord facing his own personal crunch point. Aged 60, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be Mark Radcliffe has presented some of the most popular radio handed a diagnosis of mouth and throat cancer. programmes in the country over the last four decades. His

legendary shows on Radios One and Two won him legions of This momentous time in his life, and being at the fans and a fistful of Sony Radio Academy Awards. most famous junction in music history, led Radcliffe to think about the pivotal tracks in music and the He’s also presented various TV shows for the BBC including their musicians who wrote and performed them. coverage of the . He currently hosts the weekly programme The Folk Show for Radio Two and on BBC Place: Frodsham Community Centre Radio 6 Music he co-hosts the weekend breakfast show with Time: 7.30pm Stuart Maconie. Tickets: Tickets: £15, including glass of wine.

Last year he celebrated his love of music with an acclaimed new book Crossroads: In Search of the Moments that Changed Music.

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TAKING WORDS TO THE EDGE She is also a counsellor and writing practitioner, who regularly runs ‘Write for Growth’ workshops to foster Creative Writing Workshop with Julia McGuinness creativity and wellbeing.

Whether part of our outer or inner landscape, ‘edgeland’ spaces An inspirational workshop for adult writers of all levels draw us out of our comfort zone. This unsettling territory is often of experience, including first timers. unobserved or even unnamed, yet edgelands can also be ‘places of possibility, mystery and beauty,’ with the opportunity for a Place: Frodsham Community Centre creative response both in our lives and the page. Time: 10.30am - 12.30pm Tickets: £10 In this workshop, we will seek to identify and explore some of these spaces, to discover what may emerge when we take our words to the edge.

Julia, who lives in Ellesmere Port, is currently Poet-in-Residence at Chester Cathedral. The city inspired her debut collection, Chester City Walls (Poetry Space 2015).

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DAPHNE DU MAURIER: SEX AND DEATH Sue Zlosnik is Emeritus Professor of English at Talk THE ITALIAN WAY Manchester Metropolitan University. She has published extensively both as a solo writer and in With Sue Zlosnik collaboration with Professor Avril Horner of Kingston University. Sue and Avril have an international Daphne du Maurier’s fiction is noted for its powerful sense of reputation as du Maurier scholars, based on their place. Cornwall immediately springs to mind when her name is 1998 book Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and mentioned but her dark imagination also turned to Europe. the Gothic Imagination and subsequently numerous articles, essays and presentations at conferences Always fascinated and influenced by the Gothic tradition, she and literary festivals. drew on its portrayal of Italian corruption and deviance to create fictions that explore haunted selves and unsettling sexual ambivalence. Place: Frodsham Community Centre Time: 3pm Considering short stories set in Italy such as ‘Don’t Look Now’ Tickets: £8, including tea/coffee. (adapted as a highly successful film) and the two novels that feature Italy - My Cousin Rachel and The Flight of the Falcon – this illustrated talk shows a less familiar and sometimes shocking du Maurier.

10 Book tickets at www.weaverwords.org.uk or the Ticket Source Box Office 0333 666 3366 Friday 3rd September Play ALICE’S QUEST FOR WONDERLAND: Her play Peterloo, which she wrote and directed for Down the rabbit hole with Lewis Carroll Kingsley Players, won awards for Best New Writing (Cheshire Theatre Guild), Best Director (NODA) and A new play by award-winning writer Lynn Pegler was nominated for Best Drama and Best Staging (NODA). Discover the true story of the famous Daresbury children’s author and his relationship with the real Alice. An entertaining Her 2017 play If Only: an Audience with Rudyard new play for adults explores the fact behind the fiction of the Kipling enjoyed a successful run at venues across the enigmatic Lewis Carroll and one of the most popular characters country, including the Festival Fringe and in English literature. the 2018 Weaver Words Festival. ‘Entertaining’, ‘powerful’ with a ‘warm and welcome Performed by James Partington, Simon Hetherington charm.’ British Theatre Guide Review and Lynn Pegler. Suitable for age 12+ After the interval, delve further into Lewis Carroll’s fascinating double life with a discussion hosted by former BBC Radio Place: Frodsham Community Centre Merseyside manager Mick Ord. Time: 7.30pm Lynn Pegler is a poet, playwright, PR consultant and journalist. Tickets: £10, including glass of wine.

Photo: Bobby Hanvey 11 Saturday 4th September

CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP & A reasonable level of fitness is required for this event. NATURE RAMBLE Please bring walking shoes, a notebook and pen, and

Workshop dress appropriately for the weather! With author Katharine Norbury Photo: Bobby Hanvey A buffet lunch will be included.

Come and enjoy a real treat – a creative writing workshop Place: Meet at 10am in Forest Hills Hotel car park inspired by a nature ramble. Led by celebrated local author for walk. Followed by writing session in Frodsham Katharine Norbury, the day will feature a guided walk around Community Centre. Frodsham Hill, collecting thoughts and words for a creative Time: 10am – 3.30pm writing session in Frodsham Community Centre. Tickets: £25 for the day, including buffet lunch.

A former creative writing tutor at Goldsmiths, University of London, Katharine published her debut novel The Fish Ladder in 2015 and was long-listed for The Guardian First Book Award. It was widely reviewed in the national press and has earned plaudits from literary giants such as Philip Pullman. Readers will undoubtedly recognise some of the settings – Frodsham, Chester and North Wales – which feature in this walking memoir.

12 Book tickets at www.weaverwords.org.uk or the Ticket Source Box Office 0333 666 3366 Talk 13 Photo: Bobby Hanvey Bobby Photo: Photo: Bobby Hanvey Bobby Photo: DeadlyDivisions. Colours: Ireland - From - From Colours: Ireland Martin McGuinness: A . He has also worked as a security. He has also worked as a and in 2017 The Irish News. £8, including tea/coffee.

Frodsham Community Centre Frodsham 3pm Place: Time: Tickets: age 16+ Suitable for Born in Belfast, Henry Born in Belfast, and McDonald is a journalist and and Observer, The Guardian for correspondent and related extensivelyhas written on The Troubles a book about theissues. In 1994 he co-authored INLA: NationalIrish Army Liberation loyalist on Ulster he has written recently, More (UVF), Force paramilitary the Volunteer Ulster groups, Unionist Party Ulster on leader David a biography a personal biography Trimble, Boom Bombs to Remembered Life the and as a staff BBC in Belfast for correspondent at reporter . Set against is a deeply Two Souls Two Two Souls Two choose a life worthchoose a life living. At turns shocking and heart-breaking, At and enthralls, tragically exposingthat crackles novel affecting futileto make efforts decisions andthe right human nature’s of smuggled ‘prison comms,’ to the to paramilitary-stalked Belfast ‘prison comms,’ smuggled of thrilling collide in a tense, story. all threads streets, He has just published his second novel second novel He has just published his a the 1978 to summer of from ‘The of a background Troubles’, a series through nine months day later, Irish Cup Final frenzied From The Troubles to Brexit, Guardian journalist Henry journalist Guardian Brexit, to The Troubles From perspectiveMcDonald brings us a unique on Northern Ireland. manager Mick Ord With Guardian journalist and author journalist and With Henry Guardian McDonald, within conversation BBC Radio Merseyside former Saturday 4th September Saturday IRELAND:NORTHERN PERSPECTIVE A Saturday 4th September

TEN SONGS TO SAVE THE WORLD

Event With Mitch Benn BBC Radio Four’s Now Show comedian and satirist

One broken world and ten funny songs to fix it. From BBC Radio 4’s Now Show to his column in the New European, Mitch spreads insight and laughs in equal measure. Join the ‘country’s leading musical satirist’ (Times) as, with six string in hand and a head full of silly rhymes, he identifies the problems and proposes (semi-serious) solutions.

‘Undoubted skill as a musician and delightfully cutting wit’ Place: Frodsham Community Centre One4Review.co.uk Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £15, including a glass of wine. ‘He’s Britain’s answer to Tom Lehrer’ Swindonian

‘Well crafted, well sung, his songs are just plain funny’ Guardian. Strong Language/Swearing Suitable for age 16+

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Kerry has spent over 20 years working on the WHAT LIES BURIED frontline of forensic services in prisons, secure Talk with TV expert forensic psychologist hospitals, courtrooms and police stations. Her Kerry Daynes expertise is much in demand for high profile criminal cases and she has become the face of the profession on TV - perhaps best known as Explore the reality behind the crime novel… What’s it like being ‘The Profiler’ on the award nominated Faking‘ It: a young woman thrust into the world of high-profile violent Tears of a Crime’ programmes. offenders? From walking into a maximum-security prison at the She’s often invited to act as a psychological start of her career aged 21, to becoming a prominent forensic specialist in major police investigations and is a psychologist, Kerry describes the reality of a professional life trusted advisor to the British government on the in crime, beyond the tabloid headlines and TV crime drama safe management of high-risk individuals. stereotypes.

She talks with candour and humour about what she’s learnt in Place: Frodsham Community Centre 20 years of working closely with extreme behaviour, and how Time: 3pm it taught her the value of new beginnings for us all; victims, Tickets: £12, including tea/coffee. criminals and for society as a whole.

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WORD WEAVERS Andrew Rudd is a former Cheshire Poet Laureate

Event and has twice won the Cheshire Prize for Literature. With poet Andrew Rudd and violinist Daniel Axworthy A Frodsham resident and former creative writing tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University, he Flash Fiction Competition winners announced has published two poetry collections, Nowhere Else but Here (2012) and One Cloud Away from the The festival will draw to a close with an explosive evening of Sky (2007). He is currently Poet in Residence at music, poetry and the nail-biting final of the Frodsham Flash Manchester Cathedral. Fiction Prize (sponsored by FDR Law).

Celebrate the closing festival night with inspirational, Daniel Axworthy is a versatile, sensitive violinist, entertaining words from award-winning poet Andrew Rudd, who is equally at home wowing audiences on the punctuated with musical interludes from virtuoso violinist Daniel classical concert platform, on stage with bands and Axworthy. in the recording studio producing commercial and movie sound tracks. This is the fifth Word Weavers event and the fabulous combination of poetry and music has attracted an expanding Place: Frodsham Community Centre group of admiring followers. Time: 7.30pm Tickets: £10. Licensed bar

16 Book tickets at www.weaverwords.org.uk or the Ticket Source Box Office 0333 666 3366 WRITE A POEM FOR OUR POP-UP Tuesday 31st August POETRY WALL! FESTIVAL FRINGE AT FRODSHAM LIBRARY Do you feel inspired to pen a poem in response to the festival theme Acclaimed, award-winning poet John Lindley reads from his new ‘Edgelands’ or ‘Life on the Edge’? If so, we’d love to read it! prizewinning collection Love & Crossbones.

During festival week, Frodsham Community Centre will feature a John is a freelance poet, songwriter and creative writing tutor. An pop-up poetry wall, specially created for the festival by Norley artist experienced performer, he has read at Ledbury Poetry Festival and Ann Crawford. at the Buxton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. He runs workshops for writers’ groups, festivals and in prisons, schools, universities, day care We welcome all poems on a postcard – whether it’s a haiku about Brexit centres and for those with learning difficulties. Widely published and a or some hard-hitting lines about climate change. The theme is as broad prizewinner in a number of international competitions, his poetry has as your imagination! Poems will then be displayed on our also been broadcast on radio.

Pop-up Poetry Wall. He was appointed ‘Cheshire Poet Laureate’ in 2004 and ‘Manchester Cathedral Poet of the Year’ in 2010. Pick up a festival postcard from Frodsham Community Centre or use your own. Leave your finished poem at the centre’s reception for Place: Frodsham Library inclusion on the wall. Time: 7pm Tickets: £6. Or email your small poem to [email protected]. Tickets available from the library

17 FRODSHAM FLASH FICTION PRIZE Adult creative writing competition Event Sponsored by FDR Law

How to enter Lead Judge: Professor Sue Zlosnik All entries will be judged anonymously. Do not include your name, Word Limit: 300 words (not including the title) address or any identifying mark on the story document, other than Prizes: 1st £300, 2nd £150, 3rd £50 the story title at the top of the first page. Stories should be typed, Entry fee: £3 per entry. No limit on the number of entries single sided and securely fastened together. Each entry should be 31 July 2021. Deadline: accompanied by a separate sheet of paper giving the entrant’s name, address, date of birth, contact telephone number and email address What is flash fiction? (if available). You should also include on this sheet, the title(s) of your Flash fiction is a bite-sized story and often contains the classic story story(s). You can enter as many stories as you like but each flash fiction elements: protagonist, conflict, obstacles, complications and resolution. piece must be accompanied by an entry fee of £3. Please enclose a Stories which involve humour or surprise work particularly well and cheque for the total made out to Frodsham Community Association. there is often a twist in the tale. Send entries to Flash Fiction Prize, Weaver Words Festival, Frodsham Eligibility Community Centre, Fluin Lane, Frodsham, Cheshire, WA6 7QN. You The Frodsham Flash Fiction Prize is open to any UK resident. Stories can can also enter online. For a full list of competition rules or to submit be about any subject. an online entry, go to www.weaverwords.org.uk.

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Wednesday 1st September Event 7.00pm Event: Poetry reading, John Lindley Frodsham Library 17

Wednesday 1st September 10.30am Workshop: Writing poetry Jean Atkin Frodsham Community Centre 3 3.00pm Talk: Liverpool Beyond the Brink Frodsham Community Centre 4 8.00pm Event: Michael Symmons Roberts Frodsham Community Centre 5

Thursday 2nd September 10.30am Talk: Robert Macfarlane, Andy Jurgis Frodsham Community Centre 6 12.30pm Literary lunch: Stephen Booth Forest Hills Hotel, Frodsham 7 7.30pm Event: Mark Radcliffe, radio legend Frodsham Community Centre 8

20 Book tickets at www.weaverwords.org.uk or the Ticket Source Box Office 0333 666 3366 WHAT’S ON DIARY

Friday 3rd September 10.30am Workshop: creative writing Frodsham Community Centre 9 3.00pm Talk: Daphne du Maurier Frodsham Community Centre 10 7.30pm Play: Alice’s Quest for Wonderland Frodsham Community Centre 11

Saturday 4th September 10am – 3.30pm Workshop: nature ramble & writing Frodsham Community Centre 12 3.00pm Talk: Northern Ireland/The Troubles Frodsham Community Centre 13 7.30pm Event: Mitch Benn, comedian Frodsham Community Centre 14

Sunday 5th September 3.00pm Event: Kerry Daynes TV psychologist Frodsham Community Centre 15 7.30pm Word Weavers & Flash Fiction final Frodsham Community Centre 16

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22 Book tickets at www.weaverwords.org.uk or the Ticket Source Box Office 0333 666 3366 Ticketing Policy MANY THANKS... Tickets may not be exchanged or refunded once purchased. The Weaver Words Festival Bookshop will be managed by Curiosity Disabled Access Bookshop, Runcorn. Wheelchair access is available at Frodsham Community Centre,

Frodsham Library and Forest Hills Hotel. Grateful thanks to all our sponsors: Arts Council England, FDR Law, Rotary in Frodsham and Helsby, RSK Parking (Helsby), the WEA, Frodsham Town Council, Women’s Institute. Ample free parking is available at Frodsham Community Centre, Thanks also to our new ‘Friends’- Cath Stone, Geoff & Vivien Shaw. Frodsham Library and Forest Hills Hotel.

Refreshments A licensed bar will be available at Frodsham Community Centre during evening events and a café serving light refreshments will be in operation for most daytime events.

A big thank you to the many organisations and individuals who have supported the festival, including Frodsham Community Centre, Dandelion Gifts, Whitmore & White, Frodsham & District Photographic Society.

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