2018 Events

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

Writer’s Cafe Takes Flight

Redwing Gallery

Birdman: Screening at Newlyn Filmhouse

Newlyn Filmhouse

Feathery Legs!

The Crown

Jellyfish Thinking, Feeling, Being Workshop

The Exchange

Birds in Literature with Jane Sand

Redwing Gallery

Taking Flight with Jago Stone – with Rob Donovan

Redwing Gallery

Thomas De Quincey: Flight into the Dark World of Dreams, Memory and Opium – with Jane Sand

Redwing Gallery

No Safe Anchorage with Liz MacRae Shaw

Redwing Gallery

Home of Springs, Trengwainton Heritage Project

The Exchange

The Life Cycle with Kate Rawles

Redwing Gallery

Stories that Take Flight with Rachel Joyce

Acorn Theatre

Song at St Mary’s with Timothy Dean

St Mary’s Church

Sarah Winman with Cathy Rentzenbrink: From Stage to Page

Acorn Theatre

The Great Big LitFest Quiz

Acorn Theatre

The Mysteries of Consciousness with Susan J Blackmore

Acorn Theatre

Jellyfish Thinking: Art and H.D.

Hypatia Trust

RNLI Lifeboat Station Histories with Elaine Trethowan and Martin Brockman

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Nine Lessons with Nicola Upson

Acorn Cabaret Bar

The No. 2 Feline Detective Agency with Mandy Morton

Penlee Coach House

The Redemptive Power of Walking with Raynor Winn

Acorn Theatre

Writing Workshop with Rachel Joyce

The Morrab Library

Peter Clark’s Emirates Diaries: From Sheikhs to Shakespeare

Acorn Theatre

Natasha Carthew: All Rivers Run Free

Acorn Theatre

Michael Pennington: Sweet William

Acorn Theatre

Lydia Syson: Mr Peacock’s Possessions

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Penzance Stanza Poetry Group: Birds of a Feather

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Flights of Fancy with Penwith Local History Group

Penlee Coach House

Liz Hurley: Be your own publisher! It’s easy

St John’s Hall

Workshop on How to Write Comedy with Richard Smith

The Morrab Library

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

Albert Reuss in Mousehole: The Artist as Refugee with Susan Soyinka

Acorn Cabaret Bar

29 Seconds – Flying out of the Comfort Zone with T M Logan

Acorn Theatre

Telltales Takes Flight with Alan Robinson

The Admiral Benbow

Writing it Out: A Memoir and Talk by Tessa Broad

St John’s Hall

Cruising At Thirty Thousand Feet, With Dew Vardh And Guests

Acorn Theatre

Paper Wings: Introducing Cornish Short Stories, With Emma Timpany And Guests

Acorn Theatre

Writing Workshop with Jenny Alexander: Free-Range Writing

The Morrab Library

Writing Workshop with Elizabeth Ducie: The Business of Self-Publishing

The Morrab Library

Peter Pan with the John Daniel Players

Peter Pan with the John Daniel Players

Imposter Syndrome, With Beth Sagar-Fenton

St John’s Hall

Writing Workshop With Alan Hines: Creating Characters – Writing Like An Actor

The Morrab Library

The Archers: Behind The Scenes

Acorn Theatre

Sod It! I’ll Do It Myself : Ken McKechnie on Self-Publishing

The Morrab Library

Ken McKechnie: From the Wilderness to the West Country – A Geologist’s Journey from Fact to Fiction

Penlee Coach House

Iestyn Edwards: My Tutu Went AWOL

Acorn Cabaret Bar

David Taylor: The Mercenary from Marazion

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Adam Hart-Davis: The Weird and Wacky World of Comic Artist William Heath Robinson

Acorn Theatre

Saying the Unsayable – blogging without words with Bean

Penlee Coach House

Broken Air by Third Knock Theatre

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Wrecker by Noel O’Reilly

Acorn Cabaret Bar

The Lark above the Trenches: Timothy Dean and friends

St Mary’s Church

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

A Darker State with David Young

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Flying with the Larks by Tim Brown

Acorn Cabaret Bar

To Soar Angelic: Humphry Davy and Psychedelic Sentience with Peter Sjöstedt-H

Penlee Coach House

Voices from the ‘Jungle’ – Stories from the Calais Refugee Camp

Acorn Theatre

Marie Duval: Rediscovering a Maverick Victorian Cartoonist – the story told by novelist and scholar Simon Grennan

Acorn Cabaret Bar

From Leeds to Penzance and Back Again with Patricia Le Gallez

Penlee Coach House

Finding Eden: A Journey into the Heart of Borneo with Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Acorn Theatre

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 Woman in the Snow with Elizabeth Ducie

Penlee Coach House

‘A Boy Called Ocean’: Taking flight, or facing your demons? with Chris Higgins

Acorn Theatre

The Thermal Stair: W S Graham & the Artists by David Whittaker

Acorn Theatre