Saturday 2pm Start

The book is a unique emblem of human culture and civilization, providing a record of what it means to be human. So, how did author Daniel Smith choose his selection of fifty of the most influential of all time – from Gilgamesh and the Analects of Confucius to Don Quixote and Catch-22?  Daniel Smith has…

A whistle-stop tour through the history of papermaking from its origins in East Asia to the state-of-the-art teabag machine at Chirnside papermill. Lucy Baxandall will demonstrate Western and Eastern hand papermaking processes and bust a few paper myths along the way. You’ll never take paper for granted again, and there might even be some samples…

Bloodaxe Books has revolutionised poetry publishing in Britain over four decades. In this session, founder Neil Astley will introduce three Bloodaxe authors. Jo Clement lectures in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and is the Managing Editor and Creative Director of Butcher's Dog poetry magazine. Her first book-length collection of poems, Outlandish, was published by Bloodaxe…

Make a comic and change the world Join author-illustrator Emily Haworth-Booth for a short reading from PROTEST! How People Have Come Together To Change the World, followed by a hands-on drawing and writing workshop in which participants will be guided through the process of making their own comics on the theme of activism and changing…