ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL 2020 - OUR 21ST WRITING CELEBRATIONS

Launching our Essex Book Festival  -  the fabulous novelist Val McDermid

Essex Book Festival 2020 It was short but sweet It is with a very heavy heart that we have taken the decision to cancel the final events in this year’s Essex Book Festival.  The safety of our audiences, artists and festival team is of paramount importance to us. While we will not be able to reschedule all of our events, we will do everything within our power to reschedule as many as possible. Indeed, the list is already growing of those artists and writers willing and able to return to Essex later in the year. Despite the festival’s abrupt and premature ending we do feel fortunate to have enjoyed eighteen days and nights of exceptional events in venues across Essex, beginning with our wonderful launch event with Val McDermid at Anglia Ruskin University on 28th February, through to Monday night’s final events with Laura Purcell and Mark Ellis in Manningtree Library and Grays Library respectively.