Spiegeltent Fringe Events

Fabulous events for all in our magical tent on the Abbey Grounds

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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.

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.
Cultural Conversations
Workshop - Linda France

WRITING INTO THE LIGHT A 2-hour online Poetry Workshop with Linda France for Candlemas/Imbolc
Workshop - Bea Davenport

Writing for Children: a 2-hr online workshop
Workshop - Olivia Chapman

A 2-hour online workshop to learn the tricks of how to hone your story for a synopsis: what to keep, what to lose, what to emphasise.
Writing Commissions 2020

We are delighted to share new pieces of new writing from Northumberland based authors, specially commissioned for 2020.
Story Space

Fabulous authors reading super stories from brilliant books, plus some other people you may recognise!
2020 Festival Programme
Festival Cancelled
Tom Gauld - The Department of Mind-Blowing Theories

Join the man behind The Guardian’s laugh-out-loud, hyper-minimalist comic strips.