At last we are in a position to announce the winner of the 2020 Charles Causley International Poetry Competition! Thank you for bearing with us. We are delighted to announce that this year's winner is Elena Croitoru who wins our top prize of £2,000 for her poem titled Tower Block ... Read More
After a challenging year, it was a wonderful and uplifting experience to host our Young Person's Prize Giving on Zoom recently. In normal circumstances, prizes are awarded at the annual North Cornwall Book Festival but, in fact, holding the event on Zoom actually meant that most of our esteemed winners, ... Read More
Here at the Charles Causley Trust, we are lucky enough to have in our possession a range of photographs and items once belonging to Causley himself - allowing us to unravel our beloved poet’s life story and inspiration behind his poems and writing.
However, these artefacts, photographs and objects piecing ... Read More
The Causley Festival of Arts & Literature 2021
As we look forward to another year of digital and online events, the organisers of The Causley Festival of Arts & Literature are calling for artists and performers from across the arts sector to submit an expression of interest in participating in the ... Read More
Since 2010, the Causley Festival of Arts & Literature has brought the work of local literary hero Charles Causley to the forefront of Launceston’s rich history during the summer months.
Causley enthusiasts and the literary world more generally, delighted in watching the Festival grow over the years, allowing for more and ... Read More
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John Hurst, who died peacefully on December 8th after a long illness. Born in Yorkshire, John became Head of The Extramural Department of Exeter University in Cornwall. He was a staunch member of the Liberal Democrat party and became ... Read More
Once upon a time, I was a young English student at Exeter in Charles Causley’s days there. Nowadays, I’m both a Causley Trustee and an Exeter English postgraduate.
I didn’t know Charles Causley. I only encountered him, perhaps a dozen times over 25 years, always anonymously. He’d have no clue at ... Read More
The Causley Trust are delighted to announce that they have appointed an Emerging Writer to take up the next residency at Cyprus Well, the former home of poet Charles Causley, in January 2021.
We received an overwhelming number of applications for the position and ended up interviewing six candidates for the ... Read More
During this year’s Digital Causley Festival of Arts and Literature, we at the Trust were amazed and delighted to suddenly find out that we had a hitherto-unknown Causley descendent joining us in our on-line ‘audience’– all the way from Australia, and over all three days.
We were also very honoured to ... Read More
The University of Exeter and the Charles Causley Trust have celebrated current and future collaborations with a special ceremony held online.
The two organisations have cemented their burgeoning relationship with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding witnessed by representatives from both sides.
Charles Causley was a prolific 20th century Cornish poet, ... Read More
We are beyond excited and delighted to announce at last the name of the judge for our forthcoming 2020 Charles Causley International Poetry Competition!
It’s …
Bafta-nominated, international prize-winning writer and broadcaster LEMN SISSAY.
To name but a few of his many accolades, Lemn was awarded an MBE for services to literature by ... Read More
Do you know that we rely on national, regional and local arts funding, business sponsorship, individual and group memberships, and donations, to do all that we do in order to keep the legacy and impact of Charles Causley alive?
Most of our Festival events in late July were completely free of ... Read More