Thanet Writers Awards Night

An Evening of Literature in Performance - hosted by Inscribing the Island Literature Festival.

The Sarah Thorne Theatre hosts an evening of literature performances by some of the best voices in Kent on Friday 7th October. Kent poets Caroline Price, Clive Eastwood, Mark Holihan, Maggie Harris, Vicky Wilson, Sally Minogue and Felicity Brookesmith  headline an evening which will also include readers by some of the Thanet writers who submitted entries to the THANET WRITE writing competition. Five young Thanet writers are also included in the evening's entertainment - Anna Harvey, Caroline Pearson, Priya Hawthorne, Lydia Crosher and Katherine Setterfield, whose ages range from 13-17 entered the competition to express their views on Thanet through poetry, judged by Caroline Price and Clive Eastwood of the Kent and Sussex Poetry Society. Prose writers are not left out, international writer Jacob Ross selected the winning short story which will be read out on the evening. The evening also includes a presentation of DAUGHTERS, a poetry, music and dance performance which is featured in this years' Canterbury Festival. and includes singing and dance by Aimee Watmore, with musical accompaniment by Cathy Richards. Broadstairs poet Mark Holihan, American by birth, was commissioned by Inscribing the Island  to write new poems on his perspective of Thanet, which he will be launching on the evening. Inscribing the Island Literature was created by writer Maggie Harris to encourage and develop literature in Thanet, and is run with help from a small body of dedicated helpers. The festival has received no funding from either local or national bodies and has only been able to run this event by a donation for the hire of the theatre by a local writer, and by running raffles over the past year. Tickets are £6 and £4 concessions from the theatre.


Maggie Harris

website: www.maggieharris.co.uk
Kiskadee Girl by Maggie Harris