Thank you to everyone who came to Storyland: our 2025 Family Festival on Sunday 29 June. It was a wonderful day of sunshine, stories, bubbles and drawing (as well as silent disco!) and we loved seeing you there.
We’re gearing up to Autumn 2025 already with a short series of events in partnership with the Queen’s Hall Arts Centre in September and November. We hope you can join us for them.
In the meantime, we’ll be programming the main Hexham Book Festival for Spring 2026 and we can’t wait to share it with you all.
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Schools Fest Success
March was a busy month for our outreach programme with both our creative writing challenge and annual Schools Fest reaching over 2000 children across Northumberland.

2025 Hexham Book Festival line up unveiled
60 events, including a film screening, writing workshops and a book group event, will take place across Hexham, in venues including the Queen’s Hall, Garden

On tour with Jack Meggitt-Phillips
Over the last two weeks we’ve visited schools across Northumberland as part of our Outreach programme. We were joined by Jack Meggitt-Phillips, author of The