Stone Book Festival will be taking place between 2nd and 10th March in the town.
Events are lined up in Market Square and in the library – including a book market in the town centre with lots of stalls on Friday 9th March. There will be lots going on in local schools over the week too, with Alleyne’s High School’s book week running alongside the festival.
Alleyne’s student Viet Dam has designed the logo for the festival and a competition will be running throughout the week to name the bookworm, with book vouchers as prizes for the best names.
Here’s what’s going on over the week:
Friday 2nd March
Harriet Goodwin, author of The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 and Gravehunger, will be holding literacy workshops at middle schools in the town.
Saturday 3rd March
Sneyd Pit Disaster – a talk by Ray Johnson, left, at Stone station, 4pm and 7.30pm. Tickets available from Stone library, £10 (refreshments included)
Monday 5th March
‘Book your coffee’, Stone library. Pop in for a cuppa and loan a mystery book.
Tuesday 6th March
Children’s author Barbara Mitchelhill (left) – whose books include the Damian Druth detective series, Storm Runners and Run Rabbit Run – will be giving a talk to local schoolchildren at Stone library and reading some of her stories between 10am and 12pm
Wednesday 7th March
Stone mayor June Price will be reading stories for pre-school children at Stone library between 2.30pm and 3pm
Thursday 8th March
Comedian Dave Smith will be at Alleyne’s High School as part of their Book Week for comedy workshops with Year 10 students.
Friday 9th March
Book Festival with stalls in Market Square
Local author Roger Butters will be signing copies of his new book Murder For Murder in Stone library
‘Evening of Literature’ at Alleyne’s High School (tickets available from Stone library)
Saturday 10th March
Storytelling sessions with Alice in Wonderland at Stone library and Alleyne’s students – just drop in all day
Closing date for the Name The Bookworm competition
3 comments
John Mills
I don’t suppose there will be any opportunity for local poets to perform?
Charlie_hearing
Hi , l like the idea, and ideas are the hardest thing to come up with, at the moment its a little festival on a budget and we welcome ideas for this event. We need more evening events for next book festival and I’m not sure if another will run next year or if they will be bi-annually, but poets performing would be great.
Little Bit of Stone
Great idea John – the organiser is local councillor Charlie Hearing. You can email her at
charlie_hearing@hotmail.com Keep us posted!