Louisa will be at the Custom House from 1-3 pm on Thursday afternoons throughout July, available to meet with members of the public and talk about the work she is developing there. This event is drop in.

This event is a partnership with Papatango. This workshop will explore how theatrical stories can be structured, to develop an understanding of what makes a script work on stage and the relationship between narrative and form. The multi-award-winning Papatango run free opportunities to launch new playwrights, who have gone on to win BAFTA, OffWestEnd, Royal…

These bespoke, one-to- one sessions are for writers who have work in progress and have already begun their writer development journey. Sessions will be bookable for the following time slots: 10 – 11 am  11.30 am – 12.30 pm  1 – 2 pm  2.30 – 3.30 pm 4 -5 pm  ***** Places for these one-to-one…

Immersive Place Writing Workshop with Louisa Adjoa Parker 21st July   How can we portray place through our writing or use place and nature to inspire us? How can we link the past and present? Where do our stories fit with others? Quay Words writer-in-residence Louisa Adjoa Parker is running a creative writing session with…

In a day of interlinked short-story events, the UK’s leading short story organisation, the Word Factory will show you how to make maximum impact with your fiction, share fun and insight at our short story club and explore new literary worlds at an evening salon with some of the UK’s finest writers. Concessions are available,…

A chance to sit, read and discuss a short story in a quiet corner of the Custom House. Hosted by writer and Word Factory founder Cathy Galvin and limited to 25 places. You will be sent a story by Carys Davies published by the Guillemot Factory to explore on the day. Book early to secure your place….

Due to circumstance beyond our control, we have had to cancel this event.    

Johann Thorsson, international writer in residence at Exeter Custom House. Johann Thorsson is an author from Reykjavik, Iceland who is visiting Exeter for a short residency, funded by the British Council. His residency helps us revive in a writerly fashion those international links which the Custom House once presided over at the peak of Exeter’s…

Melissa Chemam’s book Out of the Comfort Zone follows the journey of the band Massive Attack into art and music. It retraces how the history of their city, Bristol, shaped their unique sound and multicultural innovations. It then studies how the emergency of the band helped Bristol’s entire underground scene to emerge. Melissa will be in conversation…

Louisa will be at the Custom House from 1-3 pm on Thursday afternoons throughout July, available to meet with members of the public and talk about the work she is developing there. This event is drop in.