2019 Events

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

Lost Kingdoms, with Sara MacDonald and Jane Johnson

1.00-3.00

The Morrab Library

RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR, with Philip Hoare

1.30-3.00

Acorn Theatre

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

Plen An Gwari: The Playing Places Of Cornwall, with Will Coleman

5.30-7.00

Acorn Theatre

Brenda, Beyond Borders: Sue Ellery-Hill in conversation with Mike Sagar-Fenton

6.30-8.00

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Beyond the line: poetry from paintings at Penlee

2.30-3.30

Penlee House Gallery

Rebellion Adrian Rodda, An Gof and Special Guests

8.00

Acorn Theatre

True Sanity on the Edge of Madness

3.00-4.00

Redwing Gallery

Writing workshop with Jenny Kane: Location, location, location

10.00-1.00

The Morrab Library

Crossroads, with Liz Fenwick

11.00-12.30

Acorn Theatre

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

The Postman Poet, with Liz Shakespeare

1.00-2.30

Penlee Coach House

Landscapes of mind and memory, with Emma Timpany and Tom Vowler

1.00-2.30

St John’s Hall

In conversation: Bestseller Jane Corry tells the story behind her new thriller and reveals her top writing tips

1.30-3.00

Acorn Theatre

Writing workshop with Penny Shutt: Borderlines of the self

2.00-3.30

The Morrab Library

Borders, boundaries and big ideas, with Penwith Local History Group

2.30-4.00

Penlee Coach House

Everything you can think of is true, with Petrus Ursem

2.30-4.00

St John’s Hall

Adventures in an epic continent, with Nicholas Jubber

3.30-5.00

Acorn Theatre

The Museum Of Broken Promises, with Elizabeth Buchan

4.00-5.30

St John’s Hall

Why I live in a shed, with Catrina Davies

4.00-5.30

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Alan Hollinghurst in conversation

6.00-7.30

Acorn Theatre

Dreamworlds: Everywhere at once, with Adele Jarrett-Kerr

7.00-7.30

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Life, Happiness and Everything, with Isabel Losada

8.00

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Writing workshop with Angela Stoner: Writing between the tides

10.00-1.00

The Morrab Library

Borderlines: almost what is expected, with Jak Stringer

11.00-12.30

Acorn Cabaret Bar

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

Behind the Lines, with Amanda Harris

1.00-2.30

St John’s Hall

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

The Redeemed, with Tim Pears

3.30-5.00

Acorn Theatre

Accidental erotica and Cornish romance, with Jenny Kane

3.30-5.00

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Earwhacks, with Rob Barratt

6.30-8.00

Acorn Cabaret Bar

The Great Big LitFest Quiz, with Spencer Smart

8.00

Acorn Theatre

Borderlines, with Telltales

8.00

The Admiral Benbow

Writing workshop with Bridget Holding: Wild words: bring your writing to life

10.00-4.00

The Morrab Library

Line breaks: the 9th Poetry Open, with Diana Dixon

1.00-2.30

Penlee Coach House

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

Can poetry be both funny and serious? with Gray Lightfoot

4.00-5.30

Acorn Cabaret Bar

Refugee Tales, with Anna Pincus and Patrick Gale

6.00-7.30

Acorn Theatre

At the edge of our language: why speech should be a river, with Ben Cox

6.00-7.30

Acorn Cabaret Bar

A literary walk, with Anna McClary

6.30

Acorn Theatre

Litfest at 10 Launch Party

8.00

Acorn Theatre