Margate Tales

Courses and meet ups to get you writing!

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Sea Views

An anthology of local writing Published by Salt, curated by Vanguard Editions, featuring the Margate Bookie.

Short stories, poems and autofiction all from Bookie writers.

Sea Views is a partnership between three collaborators who have a long and successful history of encouraging new writers to break down the barriers of publishing.

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Margate tales workshop: Shared reading group

Shared Reading Group with East Kent Mencap

June 2023

To celebrate 75 years of EK Mencap, Elspeth ‘Billie’ Penfold runs a shared reading group. We read and listen to the last poems written by Bookie regular Owen Lowery.

Billie and the Bookie have a long relationship with EK Mencap. Check out A Different Lens and A Refracted View.

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