Whatever your aspirations may be, we try to have something of interest to whet your appetite throughout the Festival. We aim to investigate the use of local archives and diaries, and along with writing workshops, will also giving a voice to the wealth of local multicultural women's creative capabilities.

By popular demand we have asked Pennington Drama Group whose reading of The Ghost Train went down a storm last year to present a rehearsed reading of another popular play 'A murder is Announced'. We could not possibly contemplate holding a festival without the enormously popular Poem & a Pint group, who present Don Paterson, the Scottish poet, writer and musician at the festival.

We're using three new venues, Ford Park, The Mill on Mill Street and The Roxy Cinema, along with the usual venues of Ulverston Library, Lanternhouse and the Coronation Hall. We have not of course forgotten to include the daily Storytime for Adults which will be held in Ulverston Library, and Oxen Film Club will present The Third Man at the Coronation Hall.