Are you looking for a chance to hear Poet Laureate and Marsdener, Simon Armitage?  He’s got lots of events planned in West Yorkshire, keep an eye on his website to find out when he’s near you. And he’s promised...

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Culminating in a packed out our Marsden Mechanics Hall for ‘Yorkshire Vet’ Julian Norton, we’ve enjoyed an inspiring season of writing this winter. November brought flash fiction and crime from Mandy Huggins and Dave Rigby.  And we felt personally...

Great news for Simon, Poetry, and Marsden. Simon supported Friends of Marsden Library with a fantastic event in 2016, helping us keep Marsden Library open, and we are delighted for him.  

See your image in the 2020 Marsden Calendar Competition now open: enter here! Funds from selling the calendars produced go to Friends of Marsden Library to support our local library with events, awareness raising and volunteer support.  The calendar...

In Marsden Library on Wednesday, local author John Ling. John Ling is a former children’s librarian, then teacher of deaf kids, and later, autistic kids. Now he is a mediator for special needs families, and facilitator for Alternatives to...

It’s toured the UK to five-star reviews, now Matt Abbott’s Two Little Ducks can be seen in Marsden for one night only, Friday 15th March. A powerful, personal and political spoken word show from one of poetry’s rising stars,...

Fantastic news!  One of our ‘Northern Writers Reading’, Mandy (Amanda) Huggins, has been nominated for the Costa Short Story Award 2019.  One of three shortlisted short-story authors, Mandy will be heading for London for the Ceremony on 29th January....