THE creator of Adrian Mole, Liverpool poet Roger McGough and Chocolat author Joanne Harris are among the special guests at this year’s Sefton Celebrates Writing festival.
The line-up also includes Radio 4’s stand-up poet Kate Fox and Charles Dickens’s great-great-grandson.
To launch the event, on September 15, McGough will be trying out new and unpublished poems in his new show, A Work in Progress.
The festival proper begins in November, with An Audience with Sue Townsend, who will be talking about her hugely successful Adrian Mole series.
Harris will be launching her new novel, Runelight, the second book of what she hopes will become the Runemarks series. A fantasy set in a world that has been shaped, not by the Romans, but by Viking invaders, it will be published on November 3.
One-man show An Audience with Charles Dickens incorporates the great moments from Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield and more, while Chapterhouse Theatre will present Cranford at Christmas.
Community workshops will include screenwriting with EastEnders scriptwriter Julian Perkins and finally cartooning with Curtis Jobling the creator of Bob the Builder & Frankenstein’s cat.
FURTHER details and tickets at www.seftonarts.co.uk
