Take part in a writing workshop with stand up poet and Radio 4 favourite, Kate Fox. Using similes of thread & weaving to look at the impact of women in our lives. Open to writers at all levels including...
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,...
This year’s collaboration between the Friends of Marsden Library and the Huddersfield Literature Festival brings you Julian Norton: The Yorkshire Vet. Known across the UK from the popular Channel 5 series The Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton talks about the drama and...
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....
Our April Northern Writer Reading is D R Dixon, will be reading from his book ‘Wired Thoughts’ in Marsden Library on Wednesday 3rd. Doors open at 7.00 for a 7.30 start. Copies available for purchasing and signing afterwards. Suggested...
