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New for the 2019 Worcestershire LitFest, will be the inclusion of a Book Shop with nearly 100 titles for sale.
LitFest launches on Sunday 9th to 15th and the Book Shop opens from Tuesday 11th to Saturday 15th June
This is the first time a collection of works from the LitFest performing Poets and associated Publishers have been available in one place and there is no better place to launch this than the 2019 Worcestershire LitFest Hub.
Around 100 different titles available !!
The 2019 LitFest Hub is open from Tuesday to Saturday. Not just host the new book shop and the illustration exhibition, but day time poetry performances too (again new for the Lit Fest). The Hub will also be a place to purchase evening performance tickets, LitFest raffle tickets, event T-shirts and find out what other events the LitFest produce or support throughout the year.
Works will be available to purchase from Black Pear Press and V Press as well as a selection of books from winners of the Young Writer and Flash Fiction Competition, Worcester Poet Laureates and many other individual poets including Bob Woodroofe, Daniel Burton, DrayZera, Georgie Bull, Heather Wastie, Jason Conway, Jon Hartless, Kathy Gee, Kevin Brooke, Mel Wardle Woodend, Sarah Leavesley, Sue Johnson and Suz Winspear.
Located in The Old Pheasant (@theoldpheasant ), New Street, Worcester, WR1 2DP from Tuesday 11th to Saturday 15th June
For more information on the Worcestershire Litfest and the schedule of events please visit:
or download the brochure:
Individual Author Publications available at the book shop include:
Bob Woodroofe | Nature of the Vale – The local countryside & seasons | £5.00 |
Reflections of the Vale – Evesham poems & prose | £5.00 | |
Spirit of the Vale – Nature & life in the Vale of Evesham | £5.00 | |
Tales of Trees – Paired family poems with Sue Johnson | £5.00 | |
Something stirred – In search of Greenness | £5.00 | |
Journey – From pathways to poems with Sue Johnson | £5.00 | |
Pick of the Crop – The poetry collection | £5.00 | |
Daniel Burton | Dark Nights into Brighter Days | £7.00 |
DrayZera | Broken Circuit Board | £9.00 |
Georgie Bull | Voices | £9.99 |
Heather Wastie | The Page-Turner’s Dilemma | £5.00 |
Weaving Yarns | £7.00 | |
Don’t Oil The Hinges | £7.00 | |
Idle Women of the Wartime Waterways | £8.00 | |
Jason Conway | Phoenix Rises | £10.00 |
Jon Hartless | Full Throttle | £7.99 |
Rise of the Steampunk Empire | £5.00 | |
Romanticism Lost are both | £5.00 | |
Kathy Gee | Checkout | £6.50 |
Mel Wardle Woodend | A Poet ’s Poem | £4.00 |
Journeys & Memories | £6.00 | |
Poems of Spring | £4.00 | |
Natural Colours | £6.00 | |
Just a Thought | £6.00 | |
What Am I? An Alphabet of animal poems | £6.00 | |
I smell fish and chips and worms too | £6.00 | |
Tail of a little brown mouse | £6.00 | |
Sarah Leavesley | How to Grow Matches | £5.00 |
Be[yond] | £7.00 | |
Plenty-fish | £9.00 | |
Outstretched Hands | £20.00 | |
Sue Johnson | Tasting Words, Hearing Colours | £5.00 |
Curious Women | £5.00 | |
Threads – spinning the web of time | £5.00 | |
Fable’s Fortune | £5.00 | |
The Yellow Silk Dress | £5.00 | |
The Girl With Amber Eyes | £5.00 | |
Writing Success | £5.00 | |
Suz Winspear | I do not need a new obsession | £4.00 |
The Aniseed Elite | £4.00 | |
The Awkward People | £6.00 |
Black Pear Website: http://www.blackpear.net email: office@blackpear.net Facebook: @BlackPearPress
Black Pear Press (BPP) discovers good writers and creates quality books. Marketing principally through book launches, signings and at regional spoken word events, BPP encourages all writers to work hard at marketing their work. The company uses social media and networking to advise of new publications.
Black Pear Press Publications available at the book shop include:
Amanda Bonnick | Pick Your Own | £5.00 |
Black Pear Press | Short Stories From Black Pear Press | £4.00 |
Seaglass And Other Stories | £4.00 | |
On The Day Of The Dead | £4.00 | |
C.S.Barnes | The Women You Were Warned About | £7.00 |
Frances Bennett | Seeds Of Destruction | £8.00 |
Jill Todd | Echo Of Bells | £10.00 |
Johnny ‘Mogs’ Morris | Griff | £8.00 |
Poems Your Parents Won’t Like | £10.00 | |
Kevin Brooke | Jimmy Cricket | £7.00 |
Max & Luchia: The Game Makers | £8.00 | |
Kieran Davis | Lacuna | £6.00 |
Legacy | £7.00 | |
Madeleine Ridd | Millie’s Brilliant Birthday Plan | £7.00 |
Mark Billen | Tales From The Forest | £7.50 |
Math Jones | Sabrina Bridge | £6.00 |
Michael W. Thomas | The Girl From Midfoxfields | £8.00 |
The Portswick Imp | £7.00 | |
Oakley | In the dark times | £6.00 |
Pam Keevil | Virgin At Fifty | £8.00 |
Paul Eccentric | Does My Bass Look Big In This? | £10.00 |
Polly Stretton | Girl’s Got Rhythm | £5.00 |
Rod Griffiths | Aimless Fear | £7.50 |
The Not So Stories | £4.00 | |
Triple Trouble | £8.00 | |
Voicing Dementia | £5.00 | |
Tim Cranmore | Barred | £7.00 |
Young Writers 2017 | Of Machines and Men | £2.50 |
Young Writers 2018 | Checkmate | £2.50 |
Flash Fiction 2013 | Flashes Of Fiction | £2.50 |
Flash Fiction 2014 | Fifty Flashes Of Fiction | £2.50 |
Flash Fiction 2015 | A Stash Of Flashes | £2.50 |
Flash Fiction 2016 | A Cache Of Flashes | £2.50 |
Flash Fiction 2017 | Wired | £2.50 |
Flash Fiction 2018 | Sacrifice | £2.50 |
V. Press Website: http://www.vpresspoetry.blogspot.co.uk Facebook: @vpresspoetry
V. Press publishes poetry and flash fiction that is very very – work that knows what it wants to do and does it well. The press was shortlisted in the Michael Marks Publishers Award 2017, with titles winning or shortlisted in the Saboteur Awards and The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, as well as featured in the Times Literary Supplement and Vogue.
V Press Publications available at the book shop include:
Margaret Adkins | Mingled Space | £5.00 |
Charley Barnes | Scare Stories | £5.00 |
James Davey | How to Parallel Park | £5.00 |
Carrie Etter | Hometown | £5.00 |
Jinny Fisher | The Escapologist | £5.00 |
Nina Lewis | Fragile Houses | £5.00 |
David O’Hanlon | Art Brut | £5.00 |
Jenna Plewes | Against the Pull of Time | £5.00 |
Alex Reed & Keren Banning | These nights at home | £5.00 |
Becky Varley-Winter | Heroines | £5.00 |
Claire Walker | Somewhere Between Rose and Black | £5.00 |
Martin Zarrop | Making Waves | £5.00 |
Helen Calcutt | Unable Mother | £9.99 |
Gram Joel Davies | Bolt Down This Earth | £9.99 |
Kathy Gee | Book of Bones | £9.99 |
John Lawrence | The boy who couldn’t say his name | £9.99 |
Michael Loveday | Three Men on the Edge | £9.99 |
Antony Owen | The Nagasaki Elder | £9.99 |
Brenda Read-Brown | Like love | £9.99 |
Jacqui Rowe | Blink | £9.99 |
Located in The Old Pheasant, New Street, Worcester, WR1 2DP from Tuesday 11th to Saturday 15th June