We’re looking forward to our first Telltales event of 2019, with nine great readers and their poetry, prose and short stories on the theme of Darkness and Light. Telltales takes place on Tuesday 29 January at Dolly’s in Falmouth, at 7pm. Readings start at 7:30pm sharp. See you there!

Happy New Year from all of the Telltales team! Our first event of 2019 will be on Tuesday 29 January at Dolly’s in Falmouth. The theme for the night will be Darkness and Light and we invite you to submit your work – in poetry, prose, short story, or an extract from a longer work […]

A night of exceptional poetry at Dolly’s on 20 November 2018 The tinder was laid so carefully. First, Toby Keane’s perfectly chosen words – exceptional writing to open an exceptional event. Two poets inspired by works of art followed, MJ Oliver and Peter Gillies. These writers, like others present, gave so much of themselves, bringing […]

We’re very excited that Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival will be casting its spell over Falmouth again this autumn from 22-25 November with poets such as Inua Elams, Anne-Marie Fyfe, Alyson Hallett, Isaiah Hull, Gerður Kristný, Sean O’Brien, Sandeep Parmar and Penelope Shuttle likely to be seen scribbling in cafes when not actually performing or running […]

Telltales celebrated its tenth anniversary on Tuesday, 31 July, at Dolly’s Wine Bar, with balloons and bubbly contributing to the festive atmosphere. We had Telltales’ signature mix of established and new writers, poetry and prose, including Kelly Stevens, Aimee Alibiston, Lally MacBeth, Samuel Fletcher-Wilson, Rosanna Smith and Too Long Dead. Clare Howdle, co-founder of Telltales, […]