2018 Events
In 2018, highlights of the Penzance Literary Festival included Rachel Joyce, Nina Stibbe, Adam Hart-Davis, Michael Pennington and Robin Hanbury-Tenison.
This archive page shows all the events that took place in 2018, many of them with photos. Our theme for 2018 was Taking Flight.
All 2018 events
Thomas De Quincey: Flight into the Dark World of Dreams, Memory and Opium – with Jane Sand
Redwing Gallery
RNLI Lifeboat Station Histories with Elaine Trethowan and Martin Brockman
Acorn Cabaret Bar
The Mythology of Birds or, Are the Starlings Watching Us? with Robert Lock
Penlee Coach House
Flights of Imagination and Desire: Love, Death, Art and Money in 19th-Century Bavaria with Robin Lenman
St John’s Hall
Writing the Self – From Heartbreak to Humour with Cathy Rentzenbrink and Nina Stibbe
St John’s Hall
Paper Wings: Introducing Cornish Short Stories, With Emma Timpany And Guests
Acorn Theatre
Writing Workshop With Alan Hines: Creating Characters – Writing Like An Actor
The Morrab Library
Ken McKechnie: From the Wilderness to the West Country – A Geologist’s Journey from Fact to Fiction
Penlee Coach House
Adam Hart-Davis: The Weird and Wacky World of Comic Artist William Heath Robinson
Acorn Theatre
Toy Symphony and Peter and the Wolf Penzance Orchestral Society: a Family Concert with Zeb Soanes
St Mary’s Church
From German Exchange Visitor to Cornish Author – an uplifting talk by Birte Hosken
Penlee Coach House
Peter Pan in Penzance performed by the John Daniel Players
Peter Pan in Penzance performed by the John Daniel Players
To Soar Angelic: Humphry Davy and Psychedelic Sentience with Peter Sjöstedt-H
Penlee Coach House
Marie Duval: Rediscovering a Maverick Victorian Cartoonist – the story told by novelist and scholar Simon Grennan
Acorn Cabaret Bar
Taking Fright: Take-offs and Bad Landings in a Writer’s Life – Des Hannigan
St John’s Hall
Midsummer Madness in Cornwall: The Topsy Turvy World of Cornish Festivals with Alan M. Kent
Acorn Cabaret Bar
Two South West Voices to Transport You with Denise McSheehy and Mary Druce
Acorn Cabaret Bar
‘A Boy Called Ocean’: Taking flight, or facing your demons? with Chris Higgins
Acorn Theatre