2019 Events
In 2019, highlights of the Penzance Literary Festival included Alan Hollinghurst, Damien Barr, John Harvey, Hanna Jameson and Philip Hoare.
This archive page shows all the events that took place in 2019, many of them with photos. Our theme for 2019 was Borderlines.
All 2019 events
You Will Be Safe Here: Damian Barr in conversation with Patrick Gale
11.00-12.30
Acorn Theatre
Valles – Knowledge And The Possibilities Of Future Discoveries, with Dan James
11.00-12.30
Penlee Coach House
Grace Vincent: Publicity – how to promote yourself and your book (Publishing Day Event)
10.10-11.40
St John’s Hall
Louise Boland: Publicity – small publishers championing new writers (Publishing Day Event)
12.00-1.30
St John’s Hall
All Art Is Political In The Age Of Trump And Border Walls, with Hanna Jameson
1.30-3.00
Acorn Cabaret Bar
Chris Higgins: An author’s perspective – Insights into the publishing industry (Publishing Day Event)
1.45-3.15
St John’s Hall
Borders With Time: Cornwall’s Paths To The Past, with Sue Kittow and Steph Hatton
3.00-4.30
Penlee Coach House
Some kids I taught and what they taught me, Kate Clanchy in conversation with Patrick Gale
3.30-5.00
Acorn Theatre
Rose Tomaszewska: What’s your novel about? It’s all in the pitch. (Publishing Day Event)
3.30-4.45
St John’s Hall
Brenda, Beyond Borders: Sue Ellery-Hill in conversation with Mike Sagar-Fenton
6.30-8.00
Acorn Cabaret Bar
Writing workshop with Jenny Kane: Location, location, location
10.00-1.00
The Morrab Library
Long tales and tall from the long deep of Cornwall, with Des Hannigan
11.00-12.30
St John’s Hall
The Bad Bugs Bookclub: using fiction to engage with science, with Joanna Verran
11.00-12.30
Penlee Coach House
In conversation: Bestseller Jane Corry tells the story behind her new thriller and reveals her top writing tips
1.30-3.00
Acorn Theatre
Borders, boundaries and big ideas, with Penwith Local History Group
2.30-4.00
Penlee Coach House
Writing workshop with Angela Stoner: Writing between the tides
10.00-1.00
The Morrab Library
Body and Soul: Cornwall detective Frank Elder’s last case, with John Harvey
11.00-12.30
Acorn Theatre
Ritual, history and landscape: A Cornish Year in poems and paintings, with Frank Pickering and Wendy Parkyn
11.00-12.30
St John’s Hall
Women crossing cultural borders in 19th century India, with Barbara Eaton
1.00-2.30
Penlee Coach House
King of dust: adventures in forgotten sculpture, with Alex Woodcock
1.30-3.00
Acorn Theatre
Writing Workshop with John Lugo-Trebble and Barbara Armstrong: Breaking the fourth wall – stepping inside a scene
2.00-3.30
The Morrab Library
Crossing borders between worlds, with Victoria Osborne-Broad and DL Baylis
3.00-4.30
Penlee Coach House
Borders of life and death: the tale of Elizabeth siddall, with Serena Trowbridge
3.00-4.30
St John’s Hall
Writing workshop with Bridget Holding: Wild words: bring your writing to life
10.00-4.00
The Morrab Library
Something of his Art, with Horatio Clare and the Heinichen Ensemble
1.15-2.15
St Mary’s Church
Studio voices: art and life in 20th-century Britain, with Michael Bird
2.30-4.00
Acorn Theatre
My room is a bright glass cabin: the life and poetry of Charles Causley, with Laurence Green
3.00-4.30
Penlee Coach House
A fascination with frontiers, Horatio Clare in conversation with Philip Marsden
4.00-5.30
Acorn Theatre
At the edge of our language: why speech should be a river, with Ben Cox
6.00-7.30
Acorn Cabaret Bar