Continuing our collaboration with Poetry Village we are delighted to welcome two of our most acclaimed contemporary poets to Marsden as part of the Northern Writers series. Both Gaia and […]
Sarah Hussain is a Huddersfield based author and educator. Her first novel ‘Escaped from Syria’ was a winner finalist in the People’s Book Prize Award and her short story collection […]
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 […]
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Known across the UK from the popular Channel 5 series The Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton talks about the drama and humour of his experiences as a rural vet, first at James Herriot’s […]
D. R. Dixon doesn’t know how he got to where he is now as actually his biggest interest was music. He thinks he must have made a wrong turn somewhere […]
The 2019 Calendar Competition opens on 20th April. Funds from selling the calendars produced go to Friends of Marsden Library to support our local library with events, awareness raising and […]
Join poet Gaia Holmes to explore words - spoken and written - based on lives from WW1 solders from our area. The workshop at Marsden Library will be delivered by […]
Local band Happy Fish play heart ‘n’ feet dance songs and old soul blues. They use a variety of voices, squeezebox, guitar, percussion and double bass. Come along and get […]
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 […]