This year's Charles Causley Festival of Arts and Literature

Likely dates: Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th July 2021

Please see the sub-pages below, under this heading (as well as the website's news articles, and our Facebook and Twitter social media channels) for updates on the dates, the programme and how to book your places for the Festival's events.

To find out about our 2020 Festival, please click HERE. | To see everything about 'going digital', please click HERE. | See how to sponsor the Festival (overall, or any individual event), please click HERE.

Watch again...A Digital Carousel of Causley

A collection of Causley poems and new stories, performed by The Story Republic

Watch again...'If I Didn’t Write Poetry I Think I’d Explode’

Causley Short Audio Plays Showcase by Down Stage Write

Watch again...Another Cornish Childhood - Poetry reading by John Wedgwood Clarke.

Here, John Wedgwood Clarke reads from his forthcoming collection ‘Boy Thing’ about growing up in West Cornwall.

Watch again...An American Uprising: Mutiny in the DuchyAuthor Talk by Kate Werran

The story of ‘Mutiny in the Duchy’ has been a life-long interest of Kate Werran ever since her childhood – when one summer, whilst holidaying in her father’s home of Launceston, she put her fingers in forgotten bullet-holes left in a war monument during WWII.

Watch again...Aztec Rainbows and the Hadron Collider

Reading and Conversation with the poets Jen Hadfield and Tania Hershman and with Luke Thompson, Editor of Guillemot Press

Did you enjoy the festival this year? Or perhaps you have browsed our YouTube channel and indulged in a Netflix style binge watch?

With the country in lockdown, literary festivals up and down the country have had to make a big decision: cancel their festival all together or take the plunge and go digital...
Covid-19 updateThe Causley Trust Staff are working from home until further notice and can be contacted by email as usual. We hope you all stay safe and well.