2020 Celebration Event
View moreA video celebration of the young people who were involved in our 2020 publications, ‘The World and Me’ and ‘Our Global Family’.
Shared Reading
View moreShared Reading increases well-being by connecting people in a range of settings to share, listen and talk about poems and stories
Shared Writing
View moreCreative programmes for young people across the city, encouraging engagement with books, stories and words in many different ways.
The Lexis Programme
View moreBooks of stories written by young arrivals and refugees studying English on the Derby College Lexis programme
Schools
View moreEach year we organise Meet the Author events for all Derby’s primary & secondary schools, inspiring them to love books and reading
Flash Fiction Competition
View moreOur fifty-word Flash Fiction Writing competition has been organised each year since the Festival’s inception. Each year we choose a different theme - one that can be broadly interpreted - and ask you to write an original story of up to fifty words.