Hartland Book Festival 2025
Saturday 14 June 10 am – 3 pm
Hartland Parish Hall, EX39 6BL & Resurgence Centre, EX39 6BS
A fabulous fun-filled event with coffee & cake. FREE admission.
- Meet local authors and browse their books. Genres include romance, horror, historic novels, children’s books and more.
- Get publishing advice if you are a budding author
- Pop-up vegetarian cafe and cake stall
- Free children’s trail
See details below to book on workshops and guided Nature walk
If you are an author and would like a stall please book here.
Contact Amy for more information events@resurgence.org
Environmental cartoon and illustration workshop with Joseph Witchall. Watch live drawing demonstrations, create characters and stories, explore techniques, draw and let your imagination's run wild. Saturday 14 June 10.30 am – 12.30 pm Hartland Parish Hall, EX39 6BL. Tickets £5 for children aged 5+ Buy a ticket
Guided Walk: Xenia - Meeting Our New Floral Neighbours.
Join reconciliation ecologist and plant writer Pete Yeo for a guided amble around Hartland village contemplating Xenia, the ancient Greek notion of hospitality to strangers, as it applies to those plants that have leapt our garden fences and found a home in the wider landscape. Meet these new neighbours and hear the cultural and ecological stories that have led them here.
Saturday 14 June 10 am - 12 pm Meet at the book festival, Hartland Parish Hall, EX39 6BL. Tickets £8 Buy a ticket
Earth book workshop - Making books for the Earth to write in
In this workshop we will be making small books, then painting and writing a message to the natural world using inks made from earth pigments and botanicals.
Saturday 14 June 10.30 am – 12.30 pm St Johns chapel, Hartland, EX39 6BL Tickets £15 Buy a ticket
Join writer & tree specialist Cheryl Silvawood for a creative writing workshop inspired by natural elements, visualisation and observation.
Discover within yourself, the conscious observer and evocative writer.
Saturday 14 June 10 am - 11.30 am. Resurgence Centre, EX39 6BS Tickets £15 or £10 concession Buy a ticket
'The Sounding Lounge' is a creative space where you can present and share to an audience, your love for literature and words. This is an invitation to all aspiring, curious and established writers! All ages welcome.
Saturday 14 June 12 pm - 1.30 pm. Resurgence Centre, EX39 6BS Suggested donation Book a space
Poetry performance: Charlotte Faulconbridge 'Mad to be Normal'
Join Charlotte for a relaxed poetry reading in the Parish Hall cafe. 'Mad to be Normal' is the title of the final chapter of her first book 'Too High to Function'.
Charlotte Faulconbridge is an autistic and chronically ill prize-winning poet, #1 Amazon bestselling author, musician and TEDx speaker. She is an ambassador for the mental health charity MIND, was a finalist in the BBC Make A Difference Awards 2024, and in 2025 she was named one of the Big Issue’s top 100 Changemakers.
Saturday 14 Jun 2025 2 - 2:30 pm Hartland Parish Hall, EX39 6BS Suggested donation Book a space