What’s on at Charleston

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The Small Wonder 2018 website is now live – visit the festival website for full information. More

Explore the key challenges of writing stories for sound in this full day writing workshop. BBC More

Explore new stories written in response to Emily Brontë’s masterpiece of passion and obsession – Wuthering Heights.     More

Tickets are also available to purchase that cover all events over all days, or all events More

Seventy years since Empire Windrush, voices of immigration are inextricably part of Britain’s national identity.   More

Enjoy a specially commissioned monologue celebrating 20 years of Mslexia magazine’s championing of women writers.    More

Acclaimed novelist and writer Benjamin Markovits leads a creative writing workshop focused on structure.

Join us to read aloud stories by Small Wonder authors before seeing them on stage.   More

Two maestros of the form present tales of transformation, rootlessness, and physical and psychic abandonment.   More

Curiosities, mysteries, myths and the irrational abound in luminous fictions fashioned to arouse and unnerve.   More

A chance to read your own short fiction aloud to the friendly festival crowd at Charleston. More

Former winners and judges of the Award discuss different themes, the form and its topical relevance. More

This Man Booker Prize-winning novelist extols the power of poetry as a vehicle for protest.    More

The debut of ‘The Something-Nothings’ – a Small Wonder-commissioned composition inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.    More

English nature writing has a long and glorious history, which continues to evolve in the Anthropocene. More

PRESENTATION OF THE CHARLESTON-BEDE’S AWARD FOR A LIFETIME’S EXCELLENCE IN SHORT FICTION TO AS BYATT   More

Explore writing from three contemporary voices on the many contradictions of the USA today.  Trumpland: a More

The 100th anniversary of the birth of Muriel Spark has triggered renewed interest in her work.   More

A unique insight into Plath’s vivid and daring poetry by way of her personal letters.    More

Tricksy, playful and profound new stories that explore around identity and moments of intimacy.     We More

with Sarah Colbourne. This workshop is aimed at complete beginners, and will offer support and guidance to nervous souls!

Free Family Art Activities Bringing the artistic tradition of Charleston alive today, we invite families to More

Discover the expressive possibilities of drawing with charcoal, working from inspirational subjects at Charleston.