Telltales was founded by Clare Howdle and Chelsey Flood in 2008 with a simple but honest aim: to motivate, showcase and inspire writers. 

Never moving away from this objective, Telltales has taken in Port Eliot Festival (four times), the Penzance Literary Festival and the Hall for Cornwall, as well as providing a regular reading night in its home town of Falmouth.  Telltales has hosted visits from the likes of Ross Sutherland, Luke Wright and Molly Naylor.  Three volumes of the writing anthology The Parabola Project grew out of Telltales.  As if that wasn’t enough, Telltales has watched the journey of many of its regular contributors, as their work has travelled out of the shoe box and onto the world stage.

When Telltales reached the noble age of five, Clare, ready to focus on new projects, decided that it was time for Telltales to test its wings and go out into the big wide world on its own.  And here we are.

Today Telltales continues to do what it’s best at.  The much-loved reading night meets bi-monthly at salubrious locations in and around Falmouth and presents the best of new writing in the South West.

Where will we be five years from now?  More authors being signed by publishers?  More chances to welcome the stars of the spoken and written word onto our stage?  Perhaps another publication of our own?

The way is wide open, but one thing’s for certain, if we can continue to offer the opportunity for writers and their audience to get together, month after month, to be inspired to write more, listen more, live more, we will have succeeded.