It was a closely fought contest, a battle of words, a fight to the end, but after hundreds of votes the three writers chosen by the public to read out as part of the Telltales set at Port Eliot Festival 2011 are Nick Jarvis, Jo Thomas and Rupert Wallis. Congratulations to them.
Your chosen writers will be joining our curation team's picks Mac Dunlop, Nichola Butland and Chelsey Flood to make up the Telltales: See, Change set which will be taking the Round Room stage by storm at Port Eliot Festival from 12.15pm on Friday 22 July.
Thanks to our hugely talented shortlisted writers for getting involved and sharing your work with us and commiserations to those that didn't make the cut, we wish we could have taken everyone - you certainly deserved it.
Check out samples of work from the chosen writers below and if you like what you read, make sure you come along to see your writers in action.
Day tickets to Port Eliot Festival start from £35 so what are you waiting for, log onto their website www.porteliotfestival.com, bag your ticket and we'll see you there for a weekend of words, music, culture and fun.
June 8th, 2011 | published in Port Eliot 2011
I saw an article in Traditional Flooring Quarterly a few years back about an artist fellow, Welsh I think he was, who found a whole parquet floor lying unwanted in a reclamation yard. So he shipped it all the way across the Atlantic and laid it down slap bang in the middle of the jungle […]
read onJune 8th, 2011 | published in Port Eliot 2011
Watch Nick Jarvis in action… I’ve lied to the you that I’ve lied to myself is you who lied to me about who you are and who I am and you lied about you too to the I, that I used to mean the I that I am, who’d lied about myself to myself who […]
read onJune 8th, 2011 | published in Port Eliot 2011
Click play above to hear Rupert reading the excerpt. In an ancient forest on a certain night When trees cast shadows by the moon’s white light, The ground will shudder and start giving birth To tiny men, all full of mirth. For years they’ve lain beneath the earth Snuggled down deep in the warm brown […]
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Telltales is the bi-monthly night for readers, writers and listeners. Whether it's short stories, novel extracts, poetry or prose this is your chance to get it out. And if you are keen to hear what Cornwall’s writing scene has to say for itself, come along and listen - all ears welcome.
