The Blandford Literary Festival, which held its very successful inaugural event in 2019 and had hoped to make it an annual occasion until the pandemic hit, is alive and well on Facebook, where it is continuing to promote existing and emerging authors, host workshops and plan events.

In February, in celebration of #NationalStorytellingWeek, they posted a video of a story told by one of their favourite story tellers, Alex Ultradish, who attended the festival in 2019 and was a bit hit with parents and children.

They also hosted a Valentine’s short story competition, which was free to enter, and for which stories of up to 2000 wordscould be about any type of love – serious, sad or funny – with the promise of a £50 dinner for two from Rebekah’s Kitchen served by home delivery due to lockdown.

They have asked those who supported the 2019 festival to get in touch by email to info@blandfordliteraryfestival.com if they have any new projects you would like them to share, and whether they’d be interested in being part of a live panel Q&A, submitting an article for a guest blog post, send a video of a reading or give a live talk or link to their latest work, saying they are passionate about sharing people’s with the community.

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