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Milton Keynes Literary Festival
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A fabulous festival of books, writers, words and ideas! In-person, online and in the community year round, and also on X, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, YouTube and Spotify.
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Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
December 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
December 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Our MinK2026 Creative Writing Competition is now open! Welcoming poems, short stories and creative non-fiction on the theme of 'The Trees'

www.mklitfest.org/mink2026

#creativewriting
#poetry
#shortstories
#flashfiction
#creativenonfiction
#writingcompetition
December 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.
www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
December 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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We're wincing - and giggling - at memories of recent times at
Waterstones Milton Keynes as welcome back Russell Jones with his trilogy-closing Tories: The End of an Error
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November 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Our MinK2026 Creative Writing Competition is now open! Welcoming poems, short stories and creative non-fiction on the theme of 'The Trees'

www.mklitfest.org/mink2026

#creativewriting
#poetry
#shortstories
#flashfiction
#creativenonfiction
#writingcompetition
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Tories: The End of an Error is the final volume in Russell Jones’ satirical trilogy tracing 14 years of the Torygeddon circus. Join us in-person/online, 26/11 to hear more: www.mklitfest.org/endofanerror

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#endofanerror
November 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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It's #NationalTreeWeek - in a city of 22 million specimens there's plenty to inspire.

Our Creative #WritingCompetition is looking for #poetry #shortstories or #creativenonfictionfiction on the theme of 'The Trees': entries open till 18 Jan 2026.

Info: www.mklitfest.org/mink2026

#creativewriting
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Tories: The End of an Error is the final volume in Russell Jones’ satirical trilogy tracing 14 years of the Torygeddon circus. Join us in-person/online, 26/11 to hear more: www.mklitfest.org/endofanerror

@bylinetimes.bsky.social
@russincheshire.bsky.social
#endofanerror
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Tories: The End of an Error is the final volume in Russell Jones’ satirical trilogy tracing 14 years of the Torygeddon circus. Join us in-person/online, 26/11 to hear more: www.mklitfest.org/endofanerror

@bylinetimes.bsky.social
@russincheshire.bsky.social
#endofanerror
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Our MinK2026 Creative Writing Competition is now open! Welcoming poems, short stories and creative non-fiction on the theme of 'The Trees'

www.mklitfest.org/mink2026

#creativewriting
#poetry
#shortstories
#flashfiction
#creativenonfiction
#writingcompetition
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
November 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Tories: The End of an Error is the final volume in Russell Jones’ satirical trilogy tracing 14 years of the Torygeddon circus. Join us in-person/online, 26/11 to hear more: www.mklitfest.org/endofanerror

@bylinetimes
@RussInCheshire #theweekintory
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Driving forces behind Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Zoe Brooks and Anna Saunders read for us, along with Leo Boix, Julia Webb and Lesley Sharpe www.mklitfest.org/poetryspotli...

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@annasaund.bsky.social
@cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Driving forces behind Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Zoe Brooks and Anna Saunders read for us and more.

www.mklitfest.org/poetryspotli...

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@lesleysharpe.bsky.social
@zoebrooks.bsky.social
@annasaund.bsky.social
#poetry
@cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Visit our friends at Waterstones Milton Keynes t 4pm on Tues 25 Nov to meet #AlexanderArmstrong as he signs copies of his new book, Evenfall. Book ahead to secure a place in the queue and a copy of the book, to be collected on the day.
Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/meet-...
#miltonkeynes
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
mklitfest.bsky.social
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. Submit a piece by 17 Nov and you could also be taking part!

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
November 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Sigrid Nunez, one of the USA’s most esteemed authors, talks to Open University novelist Emma Claire Sweeney about the letters of Virginia Woolf and Susan Sontag.

mklitfest.org/sigridnunez

#openuniversity
#creativewriting
#lettersandliterature
#sigridnunez
@emmaclairesweeney
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Let local writers show you Central Milton Keynes from ten new angles, as they read original poems and short stories inspired by places along the way.

mklitfest.org/citylitwalk

@culturemk
#poetry
#shortstories
#miltonkeynes
#literarywalk
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM