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On the 12 December, three top young adult authors will be starring in a fabulously festive event at AKS School. "Storytellers, Inc… presents I’ll be Home for Christmas" brings authors Lisa Williamson, Katy Cannon and Julie Mayhew to the beautiful AKS venue for an evening of author talks and book signing, a Christmas quiz and charity raffle and a delicious menu of festive food from the AKS Catering team. This event is to celebrate the publication of Stripes Publishing’s new compendium of Christmassy short stories and poems, "I’ll be Home for Christmas", which brings together a fantastic line-up of award-winning authors all…

Jeff Kinney, the author of the global bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series will be coming to Blackpool Tower Ballroom on Thursday 3 November for his only UK solo author event for 2016. Warm up your winter with this hugely entertaining family event, inspired by Jeff’s new book Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down. Expect fun and games with great prizes up for grabs, plus Jeff talks about writing the books and his experience of being involved in 3 major blockbuster films. At the end of the show there will be a chance for the audience to ask Jeff…

Thursday 6 October marks National Poetry Day and this year the theme is Messages. Blackpool Libraries of course has a whole host of poetry themed activities taking place to help celebrate, some of which include: Vita, Live Poets and Poetry People, 1.30-4pm, Central Library Join the regular poetry group as they celebrate National Poetry Day with their Messages themed programme. Free. Refreshments £1. Lisa Bower: Poet-in-Residence, Living Room, Central Library Lisa Bower will be the new poet-in-Residence at the Living Roomin Central Library. Scribble and Shout: Intro to Poetry workshops, 4-5:30pm, Central Library Join Lisa in this creative, sociable space and try…

Award winning poet Amanda Coe is leading two Wordpool Poetry Masterclasses and four poems written during these will feature in Wordpool’s Town Centre Poetry Trail in a number of empty shop windows around the town centre. Prize-winning poet and author of six books,  Mandy Coe has been featured on BBC radio and television (Woman's Hour, Poetry Please and CBeebies) as well as the Radio Times and the Guardian. Based in the North West of England, Mandy writes poetry for adults and children and as an educationalist has been commissioned to write poems and educational material for the Barbican, the Children’s Poetry Bookshelf, National…

St Annes independent booksellers Storytellers, Inc., are holding two exciting author events this summer. As part of their Independent Booksellers Week programme they are delighted to welcome local author Carys Bray back to Storytellers, Inc. on Thursday 23 June. This will be followed by author Jessie Burton talking about her new book The Muse on Monday 11 July, 7.30 at The Pavillion Café, St Annes. Carys will be introducing her new novel, The Museum of You, at a literary event with a difference. Guests will hop on board the Carys Bray Book Tour Bus and drive down to the seafront for a morning of books, bus-stops and biscuits!…

  Top comedienne and actress Jenny Eclair will bring her literary skills to Blackpool’s Central Library for World Book Night on 23 April when she will be discussing her latest novel ‘Moving’. Already acclaimed by fellow comedian Jo Brand as ‘witty, moving, dark and absorbing’, Jenny’s latest novel tells the story of a woman transported back to her past as she prepares to sell the house she has lived in for the last 50 years. Perhaps best known recently for her appearances in TV’s Loose Women and Grumpy Old Women, Jenny, who grew up in Lytham St Annes as a…

  After the success of their middle-grade festival day, A Midsummer Mystery, independent booksellers Storytellers, Inc. are bringing another exciting day of themed author events to St. Annes. One week before Valentine’s Day they're inviting teens (and their parents!) to an afternoon of events that celebrate friendship, feminism and frankly brilliant books. This empowering afternoon is sure to pass the Bechdel test with a fantastic line-up of current teen/YA authors and a varied programme of activities including: Mini TED-style talks on feminism topics Panel discussion and interviews Girl power games, a team quiz and Spinster bingo Book-signings and hang-outs It’s a…