What’s on at Charleston

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

Join us for a day’s intensive painting tuition, and lose yourself in the atmosphere of the Walled Garden and surrounding grounds.

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

Bring a picnic and watch the outdoor performance of ‘The Children in the Moon’, and then explore, play and make your own creations as a family.

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

Picture Credit: Helen Brown Learn the processes of woodcut printmaking, with tutor Helen Brown, from design More

Photo credit: Tom Benjamin In this day-long workshop, learn about the particular nature and use of More

Polish your short story, practise performing it, and compete for writerly prizes.  The SLAM is back! More

The perfect way to immerse yourself in a deeper understanding of the book.

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.   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

What do you need to know before you start writing? What is your story about?    More

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