Please join us for Telltales at Falmouth Princess Pavilion with a marvellous group of readers on our theme of Someone Told Me… in poetry, prose and short stories.

Our Telltales event takes place on Tuesday 24 September, starting at 6pm.

We’ll have a small bookstall and the Pavilion bar will be open for tea, coffee and other drinks.

We hope to see you there.

Thank you!

Our theme for Telltales in September is Someone Told Me….

We look forward to seeing your submissions on this topic, in any way.

Here are some possible inspirations to get you writing:

• A rumour or piece of gossip?
• A bit of family history?
• Heard on the grapevine?
• “Have you heard the one about…?”
• A spy story based on wiretapping?
• Good news from a friend?
• A secret revealed?

How might you respond to our theme?

We’re keen to see your creative input, whether in poetry, prose, short story or an excerpt from a longer work. Please think in terms of a maximum of 10 minutes of reading or around 1500 words.

Please submit by Saturday 21 September to info@telltales.org.uk

Telltales takes place on Tuesday 24 September, 6pm at Falmouth Princess Pavilion in the Garden Room.

Thank you!

And here are the dates for future Telltales events: Tuesday 26 November at Falmouth Art Gallery

Image: Detail from The Walls Have Ears by Sally Pucill

Please join us for Telltales at Falmouth Princess Pavilion with a great line-up reading about The Great Outdoors, in poetry, prose and short stories.

Our Telltales event takes place on Tuesday 30 July, starting at 6pm.

We’ll have a small bookstall and the Pavilion bar will be open for tea, coffee and other drinks.

We hope to see you there.

Thank you!

Our theme for Telltales in July is The Great Outdoors.

We look forward to receive your submissions on this topic, interpreting the subject in any way.

Here are some ideas to get you thinking…

• What does The Great Outdoors mean to you?
• How might our ancestors have thought differently about the “natural world”?
• Can you describe a favourite place so that our audience feels that they, too, are there with you?
• Do we think of ourselves, as humans, as part of nature or separate from it?
• Does writing outdoors stimulate our creativity, like painting en plein air?
• The environmentalist Utah Phillips once wrote “The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses” – What was his intention?
• Can ecological writing raise awareness of important environmental issues?

How might you respond to our theme?

We’re keen to see your creative input, whether in poetry, prose, short story or an excerpt from a longer work. Please think in terms of a maximum of 10 minutes of reading or around 1500 words.

Please submit by Saturday 27 July to info@telltales.org.uk

Telltales takes place on Tuesday 30 July, 6pm at Falmouth Princess Pavilion in the Garden Room.

Thank you!

And here are the dates for future Telltales events in 2024 at Princess Pavilion: Tuesday 30 July, Tuesday 24 September, Tuesday 26 November

Main image photograph: Greenland Ice Sheet, July 2024, by Jane Williamson

Please join us for Telltales at Falmouth Princess Pavilion with a wonderful line-up of readers on the theme of Where the Line Breaks, in poetry, prose, short stories and multimedia.

Our Telltales event takes place on Tuesday 21 May, starting at 6pm.

We will have a small bookstall and the Pavilion bar is open for tea, coffee and other drinks.

We hope to see you there.

Thank you!

Our theme for Telltales in May is Where the Line Breaks.

For this theme we would be delighted to receive your submissions on this topic, in any way. Here are some ideas to get you thinking…

• Writing which uses pauses, unusual rhythm or non-verbal language?
• A story about communication which has gone awry through being interrupted or cut off?
• Discussion of a policy or policies with which you agree or disagree?
• An event in wartime and/or on a border?
• The end of a family line? Or a beginning of a new one?
• How might we endeavour to perform ‘concrete’ poetry or other ‘concrete’ writing, which has a distinctive visual layout on the page?
• An unexpected find between sand and sea, on the tide line?
• An ekphrastic piece of writing, with your response to a particular painting or sculpture?

How might you respond to our theme?

The “Where the Line Breaks” theme is inspired by the title of an exhibition which took place recently at the Tremenheere Gallery at Gulval, near Penzance, organised by the Newlyn Society of Artists (NSA). The title was devised by the poet Katrina Naomi.

We’re keen to see your creative input, whether in poetry, prose, short story or an excerpt from a longer work. Please think in terms of a maximum of 10 minutes of reading or around 1500 words.

Please submit by Saturday 18 May to info@telltales.org.uk

Telltales takes place on Tuesday 21 May, 6pm at Falmouth Princess Pavilion in the Garden Room.

Thank you!

And here are the dates for future Telltales events in 2024 at Princess Pavilion: Tuesday 30 July, Tuesday 24 September, Tuesday 26 November

Please join us for Telltales at Falmouth Princess Pavilion with our latest group of readers on the theme of Interesting Times in poetry, prose and short stories.

Our Telltales event takes place on Tuesday 2 April, starting at 6pm.

We will have a small bookstall and the Pavilion bar is open for tea, coffee and other drinks.

We hope to see you there.

Thank you!

The theme for our next Telltales is Interesting Times.

For this theme we would be delighted to receive your written contributions relating to “Interesting Times”, in any way…

Might it be timely report of something happening very much in the “here and now” or a memory of a time that you hold dear? How about an account of your daily life, with its lows and highs, and your thoughts along the way? A poem of the moment? What is it that catches your interest and what passes you by? Who defines what’s “interesting” and what isn’t? How do you feel when your curiosity is let loose?

How will you respond to our theme?

We’re keen to see your creative input, whether in poetry, prose, short story or an excerpt from a longer work. Please think in terms of a maximum of 10 minutes of reading or around 1500 words.

Telltales will take place at Falmouth Princess Pavilion on Tuesday 2 April 2024, starting at 6pm.

If you would like to read, please submit your work by Saturday 30 March to
info@telltales.org.uk

Thank you!

For your diary…

Here are some diary dates for future Telltales events in 2024 at Princess Pavilion:

Tuesday 2 April
Tuesday 21 May
Tuesday 30 July
Tuesday 24 September
Tuesday 26 November

Our next theme for Telltales is Interesting Times.

For this theme we would be delighted to receive your written contributions relating to “times”, in any “interesting” way…

Might it be timely report of something happening very much in the “here and now” or a memory of a time that you hold dear? How about an account of your daily life, with its lows and highs, and your thoughts along the way? A poem of the moment? What is it that catches your interest and what passes you by? Who defines what’s “interesting” and what isn’t? How do you feel when your curiosity is let loose?

How will you respond to our theme?

We’re keen to see your creative input, whether in poetry, prose, short story or an excerpt from a longer work. Please think in terms of a maximum of 10 minutes of reading or around 1500 words.

Thank you!

For your diary…

Here are some diary dates for future Telltales events in 2024 at Princess Pavilion:

Tuesday 21 May
Tuesday 30 July
Tuesday 24 September
Tuesday 26 November

Please join us for our October Telltales at Falmouth Princess Pavilion with a great selection of readers on the theme of Looking Forward – Looking Backward in poetry, prose and short stories.

Our Telltales event takes place on Tuesday 30 January, starting at 6pm.

We will have a small bookstall and the Pavilion bar is open for tea, coffee and other drinks.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thank you!