Friday 1 October
Northgate Methodist Church Hall
10.00am – 1.00pm

Where do ideas come from? How can we stimulate our creativity and broaden the range of our ideas? This workshop will focus on techniques to spark ideas for new pieces of writing and provide tools that can be used again and again to boost creativity.

Friday 1 October  SOLD OUT
The Rose & Crown
10.30am

She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth

Join Helen Castor for this fascinating story of how royal power came to lie in female hands for the first time under the Tudor queens and of the four women who came before them and who, whilst never reigning monarchs, held great power.

Friday 1 October
Warwick Library
10.30am – 11.30am

Bookstart party for all under 5s, and their mums/dads/carers.

Meet the Little Princess and her princely friends in stories and rhymes.

Friday 1 October
Thomas Oken Tea Rooms
11.00am – 4.00pm

Join Marg Roberts, Warwick’s Poet Laureate and guest poets from Warwickshire and the West Midlands who will be reading a selection of their poems; an exciting and eclectic mix of funny to serious and all shades in between. You can even read your own work, if you wish to, in a supportive and friendly atmosphere.

Friday 1 October  SOLD OUT!
Northgate Methodist Church Hall
2.00pm – 5.00pm

A positive, energetic and friendly workshop about how to write the first pages of your book and find its truth through scene, character and your own reading.

Friday 1 October
Unitarian Chapel
3.00pm

Join us for an afternoon of two halves: The Real Jane Austen with Paula Byrne and the second Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen with Sarah Jane Downing.

Friday 1 October
The Rose & Crown
5.00pm – 6.30pm

Jo Eames is a writer & wine-buyer, co-owner of Peach, the company behind The Rose & Crown in Warwick and twelve other pubs in market towns. In June 2010 Peach Pubs launched Peach Publishing with Jo’s novel, The Faithless Wife, and a campaign to encourage book groups into pubs, selling 600 copies in the first month.

Monday 4 October*
Bridge House Theatre
7.30pm

We are very pleased to announce that John Sutherland will now be joined by John Crace at Warwick Words as an unmissable duo.

Saturday 2 October
Warwick Market, Market Place
10.00am – 4.00pm

Publicity and information on our very own Festival Market Stall plus a Book Swap Shop!
Come and visit us, bring a book and go home with a different one