Buy now for £9 plus postage or purchase all three Anthologies so far for £15 We’re excited to launch our third anthology of new writing from the Quay Words live literature programme, animating the historic Exeter Custom House as a hub for literature in a UNESCO City of Literature. Included here are pieces by established…

As part of Kim Squirrell’s summer 2023 Maritime residency at Quay Words, she has created a poetry & paper art trail around the Quayside and Canal Basin. This trail celebrates the ships and boats that have sailed into and out of Exeter, and the people of the quay and canal who work to support and…

We were thrilled to host Sophie as our summer 2022 writer-in-residence exploring the Maritime theme. Here she shares her commissioned poem with us. Index of Exeter Quay/ From the blue door, I beckon 1. It’s here that I first read: Exeter is considered to have lost its route to the sea. 2. A woman is…

Buy now, £9.65 including postage We’re excited to launch our second anthology of excellent prose and poetry from the Quay Words live literature programme, showcasing creative output from Exeter Custom House as a hub for literature on Exeter’s quayside.   Contributions from established writers include Tom Cox, Nikesh Shukla, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Pascale Petit.  They…

e presenting a new site-specific live-literature commission for Exeter’s Quayside, In Transit by Belinda Zhawi, produced by Penned in Margins.  

Discover the highlights of our Summer Maritime season.

Discover the magic of The Poetry Machine at Quay Words

Discover more about our Spring writer-in-residence’s exciting science themed events on Exeter Quayside.

We’re pleased to announce the full programme of Quay Words Spring

Over five weeks in the Autumn of 2021, we were delighted to host Jojo Spinks of Interwoven Productions CIC at Quay Words. Jojo ran her ‘People of the West Quarter’ creative writing workshops with people from the local community. These workshops were designed to explore the personal heritage of the participants and to encourage them…