The theme for Tuesday 23 July at Falmouth Library is ‘Textiles’. The curator for this event, Sarah Perry, chose this theme after reading Kassia St Clair’s wonderful book, The Golden Thread. How fabric changed history. In it she explains that the word ‘text’ and ‘textile’ share the same common ancestor, the Latin ‘texere’ which means […]

Our next Telltales event is part of Penzance LitFest and we’re inviting submissions on the festival’s theme of Borderlines Be as inventive and interpretative as you know how. Think in terms of 10 minutes’ worth of reading (around 1600 words). It could be a new piece of poetry or prose, a short story, cross-genre or […]

Our next Telltales event is on Tuesday 28 May at Dolly’s, Falmouth. May’s theme is In the Flow to coincide with the Fal River Festival taking place during this week. We have eight wonderful writers who will read their poetry, prose, short stories and extracts from longer works, to delight, entertain and enthrall you. Please […]

After the success of our March Telltales event, Form Follows Function, at Falmouth Art Gallery we are now thinking ahead to our next event on Tuesday 28 May at Dolly’s, Falmouth. May’s theme is In the Flow to coincide with the Fal River Festival. We’re thinking of flow as in a flow of ideas, a […]

Thank you to all of our audience who ventured out on a dark chilly January evening to Dolly’s. And thank you again to all our nine readers whose writing revealed such wonderful interpretations of our theme Darkness and Light. We’re now thinking ahead to the next Telltales event on 26 March. The theme for our […]