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 Tom will be celebrating the launch of new titles at this festive event. Join us for a wonderful evening of poetry in Marsden's wonderful library […]
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 ‘Sit up, Stand up, Speak up’ was released in 2017. In 2018 she won the Ms Shakespeare competition in Yorkshire and was commissioned to write […]
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 Violence Project (AVP).Always a writer and poet. “I could smell them and hear them long before I could see them. Soon the grove was filled […]
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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 old practice in Thirsk and now in the market town of Boroughbridge. His new book The Diary of a Yorkshire Vet, features many entertaining stories about […]
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 but as it is he is very happy that he did; he says it’s not until he started writing that he really found out about […]
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 volunteer support. The calendar raised more than £2,000 this year, and we can’t do it without you. NEW for the 2019 Competition: we are introducing […]
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 Gaia Holmes, a Luddenden-born poet whose work digs beneath the surface of mundane, urban life to reveal a remarkable seam of exoticism. Her carnival of […]
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 those feet tapping! Doors and bottle bar from 7pm, music from 7.30pm. As ever, this is a pay as you feel event, with the proceeds […]
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 absolute beginners. Tickets are Free. Limited places, booking essential. There is a £1 charge for posting, […]