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Contact us at:

Hexham Book Festival
Queen’s Hall Arts Centre
Beaumont Street
Hexham
Northumberland
NE46 3LS

tel: 01434 600601

Email: [email protected]

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Volunteering

Join the team as a volunteer in 2021
WRITE A RADIO DRAMA IN FIVE WEEKS

Do you enjoy listening to audio drama? Would you like to learn how to write your own? If so, join our online classroom for five live, interactive classes, which will teach you how to write a complete audio drama over five sessions.
Public Funding for Creative Writers: ONLINE 2-session Writer Training

Mondays 22nd and 29th March, 2021: 7pm – 9.30pm 2-session course, 90 mins per session, live teaching, via Zoom online conferencing
ONLINE Writer Training Session: Pitch Your Work

This 2-hour online workshop will teach you in a practical way how to talk about your work, and pitch it to agents / editors / commissioning editors / producers – whatever is relevant to your artform.

Most read

Mike Cawthorne - Walking Through Shadows

A tale of extremes in North West Scotland.
Festival Cancellation
Victoria Hislop Those Who Are Loved

A novel which sheds light on the complexity, and trauma, of Greece’s past.
Dan Jackson - The Northumbrians

Jackson reveals a part of England whose future may be uncertain, but whose people remain as durable and remarkable as ever.
New Voices Proof Party

Hear three authors of novels publishing this summer and receive proof copies of the books.
Young Writers' Summer Poetry Course

Read work produced by young people during the Poetry Writing Course here.
Lennie Goodings - A Bite of the Apple

Lennie Goodings is Chair of the UK British publishing house Virago Press.
Comedy Words Gala

Queen’s Hall presents Funny Words Comedy Gala in the Spiegeltent. A line up of six fabulous comedians.
Mike Berners-Lee There is No Planet B

Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, plastics There is No Planet B.
Jenny Eclair, Inheritance

Meet star baker, broadcaster, comedian, actor and best-selling author, Jenny Eclair