Dartmoor Literary Festival

Tavistock is to host the first ever Dartmoor Literary Festival next year. The event will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Dartmoor Society and will run over the weekend of May 9 to 11 2008.

Planning for the festival is still in its early stages, but it is hoped it will feature a mixture of talks, readings, and workshops, and will cover fiction of all genres — including novels, poems, and plays — written about and on Dartmoor. It is also expected that local reading and writing groups, as well as schools in the area, will have the chance to become involved.

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