Quay Words are pleased to be teaming up with Exeter Writers for a day of festivities to celebrate their 75th birthday. Exeter Writers are one of the longest running writing groups in the UK, having been going since around 1950. Amongst their members are both traditionally published and indie authors, as well as short story and non-fiction writers. A Celebration of Words With Exeter Writers uses the 75 year anniversary to bring together a wider group of local writers for a special one-day festival. Running in collaboration with the Quay Words programme, produced by Literature Works, therell be a mix of panels, workshops and speakers. The event is aimed at helping local writers and authors, with topics such as: - Plotting a good novel - How to get happily published - Forensics for crime writers - Advice and Networks for South West Writers

Do you have an idea or a story to tell? Can you imagine it performed live, by actors on a stage? Its time to start your playwriting journey! Quay Words are pleased to offer this free workshop in collaboration with the Royal Court and led by their Writer in Residence, Tife Kusoro. The session will help you get started coming up with ideas and writing scenes for your play. The Royal Court Young Playwrights Award is a free, open-access competition for anyone aged 13-18 in the UK interested in writing a play. Winners will have their plays performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London and published by Nick Hern Books. Young Playwrights Award | Royal Court Theatre About the Writer Tifes debut play, G, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in August 2024, and won the George Devine Award for most promising new playwright. Her work has also received the Playwrights '73 Award and the Lynne Gagliano Writers' Award, and been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry, the Women's Prize for Playwriting, the Verity Bargate Award, and the Alfred Fagon Award.