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With sea levels on the rise and tidal erosion escalating, the fragility of being an island nation has never been more apparent, particularly to Norfolk’s vulnerable coasts and the people who call them home. Happisburgh coastal campaigner Malcolm Kerby, Dr Sue Brooks from Birkbeck, University of London, and Patrick Barkham – author of Coastlines: The […]

Fully booked! If statues could talk, what stories would they tell? YA novelist Alexander Gordon Smith will use Snap the Dragon, a resident of the Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell and one of ten statues featured in Talking Statues Norwich, as a springboard for teaching young people how to write the perfect monologue. Monologos means […]

Black History Month celebration With special faculty guest reader Claire Hynes Ayobami is the author of Stay with Me which was shortlisted for the Kwani? Manuscript Prize, the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction, the 9mobile Prize for Literature and the Wellcome Book Prize. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Stay with Me […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

Lamanby is a live literature performance by award-winning poet Jacob Polley, with music by John Alder, and film by Ian Fenton. Inspired by Polley’s award-winning collection Jackself, and with the poet himself reading his work live, the performance takes the audience on a multi-media journey through the extraordinary story of an imagined childhood house which becomes the […]

How do you find yourself when you find yourself where you don’t belong? Jonny Fluffypunk grew up in the far-flung, forgotten reaches of outer suburbia. In 1984, he was fifteen. This is a story about being the first punk in the village and the only trainspotter in eyeliner. About unrequited love and youth club and […]

Join Norwich’s writing community for a free evening of conversation, ideas and support each month. Open to anyone who makes, reads and works with words, the Dragon Hall Salon is an opportunity to grab a drink from the bar, meet people, cook up plans and compare notes, to talk books, and to hear what’s happening […]

With special faculty guest reader Sophie Robinson Patrick is a writer who lives in London. He writes about art for frieze, Art Agenda, and other publications. He is a contributing editor at The White Review. Arkady is his first novel. ‘This is a vivid and very fine debut’ – Kevin Barry Doors open for all […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

Join us for a celebration of regional writing and as we announce the winners of the East Anglian Book Awards 2018! We welcome authors Simon Scarrow, Rebecca Stott and Carl Gorham as they talk about their experiences as East Anglian authors and also present the prizes to the winners of the 2018 East Anglian Book Awards. Tickets £29.50, available from […]

With an epidemic amongst young people in depression and anxiety, and policy-makers now looking at ways of addressing public wellbeing, we ask – are we living in a new age of anxiety? Political economist Will Davies of Goldsmiths, University of London will discuss what he calls ‘the happiness industry’; Tonia Mihill of MAP will explore […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

Fake news, climate change (and it’s denial), that bloke from Home Alone Two in the White house, celebrities dropping like MySpace shares, trout pouting narcissists, unexpected items in the bagging area, the threat of thermonuclear war, fidget spinners. In this witty, lyrical and unique spoken word comedy show Byron Vincent turns a satirical eye to […]

With special faculty guest reader Henry Sutton Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott was born and raised in Houston, Texas, before coming to call Los Angeles and London her adopted homes. She is a graduate of UEA’s Creative Writing MA course and has won the Bridport Prize – Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award and the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize for […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

An evening of love, laughter, community and boozing! Three women at different stages of their lives. They’re in the same pub on the same night. What are they thinking? Kiss me, Help! I Hate You tells three women’s stories using audience interaction, poetry, story-telling and song. This is a funny and raucous show, specially made […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

History, philosophy, musings, poems, and tales of booze, horse brasses and Morris dancers. Join Andrew James Brown for a warm lager or two. Taking Orwell’s 1946 essay as a starting point, this show travels through pubs great and small, through country inns and city gin-palaces, across parquet and sticky carpet alike. A must for anyone […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

Stand-up poet Laurie Bolger brings you stories and chats about comfort food, supermarket meltdowns, tea and pub love. Her warm and witty poems ask the big questions: how does that annoying passenger on the bus turn out to be the stranger that saves the day? Sometimes, when life is lonely, strangers give us the answers […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]

Come and explore the historic Dragon Hall, now home to the National Centre for Writing, and take a full guided tour of this fascinating building. Learn more about the architectural and social history of this 15th Century building from an experienced volunteer guide. Dragon Hall has had a fascinating and colourful history – starting life […]