This event is now fully booked but we are pleased to be able to offer you to option to stream it online via YouTube (pay what you can). Book now to receive a link that will go live at 6.30pm on Wednesday 11th September. Book your livestream ticket → We are thrilled to be joined…

Saturday 27th– Sunday 28th July, 11am-5pm The Poetry Machine: free poems created in conversation with you! Poet Beth Calverley will be joining us with her magical Poetry Machine. Beth will ask you some gentle questions and weave your words into a typewritten poem to take away with you. Just follow the clatter of her vintage…

We’re pleased to host the Exeter Poetry Editing Stanza for in person meetings at Quay Words during our seasons. The sessions are led by local poet Sarah Acton and are a chance to bring poems you’re working on along for peer feedback. For every session each poet brings along one poem for critique (with 6-8…

Tuesday 16th July 6-8pm / Thursday 18th July 6-8pm Join Sarah at dusk for a creative writing and walking workshop. We will explore the theme of bodies of water and the vessel of the body as part of individual and communal writing practice. We will get curious about the physicality of composition with our walking…

We’re delighted to welcome Katrina Naomi to Exeter Custom House for the launch of Battery Rocks. Battery Rocks is Katrina’s first full poetry collection since the critically acclaimed Wild Persistence (Seren) in 2020. Battery Rocks is a meditation on nature, risk, swimming and the sea. The title refers to a Cornish swimming spot in Katrina’s home town…

A day of Masterclasses and conversation with author Clare Chambers and her editor, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Publishing Director Alexa von Hirschberg. Do you have a novel writing project that needs attention? Perhaps you need some technical help, are looking for tips to support your fiction writing, or are curious about navigating the industry in general?…

Free film screening in the Transit Shed – no booking required In this age of countless online and digital radio stations, it’s almost impossible to imagine a time when pop music was rarely on air. But back in the early 1960s, the only station available was the old-fashioned, post-war BBC – until pirate radio burst…

We’re pleased to host the Exeter Poetry Editing Stanza for in person meetings at Quay Words during our seasons. The sessions are led by local poet Sarah Acton and are a chance to bring poems you’re working on along for peer feedback. For every session each poet brings along one poem for critique (with 6-8…

We’re thrilled to welcome Monique Roffey (The Mermaid of Black Conch) back to the Custom House, after her time as writer-in-residence. She’ll be reading from her new novel Passiontide, ahead of its publication in June, so this evening promises to be an exclusive preview of the eagerly awaited new book, and a chance to ask Monique…

We’re thrilled to welcome prize-winning novelist Claire Fuller to the Custom House. Claire will be reading from a selection of her work including her latest novel The Memory of Animals. She’ll be supported on stage by a handful of talented emerging writers who will be taking part in our three-day intensive Hothouse workshop, come along to enjoy new voices reading…