Telltales

Telltales is a monthly Falmouth-based reading night aiming to build Cornwall’s creative writing community, provide writers with a platform to showcase their work, discover fresh new talent and raise aspirations by profiling new local writers alongside more established national and international writers.

Carrying on Telltales’ popular tradition of themed readings, the Telltales tent will feature morning and evening performances specially devised around the theme At Dawn, At Dusk.

In between the Telltales readings, as well as putting on some special performances from Cornwall’s best wordsmiths (see below), University College Falmouth’s profwriting.com and The Source FM will be running an open mic slot . So bring along your best stuff — poetry, novel extracts, short stories or scripts, anything goes — and take to the stage to delight the Telltales audience.

www.wordslikepictures.com/telltales

The Telltales tent is on the lawn near the Orangery. Look out for their distinctive apostrophe signs across the festival site.

The Source/ Profwriting will run a series of events in between the Telltales shows – one on Friday at around 17:00, one on Saturday between roughly 14:00 and 17:00. The following will be performing between 10 and 30-minute slots:

• The Black Maria Memorial Fund: Guitars! Ukuleles! Hand actions! Words!
• Jane Pugh and Anna Maria Murphy: The Story Detectives – a lot happens in the middle of nowhere
• Dhyano: The Latin Quarter radio show – imaginary soundscapes and other incidents
• Adrian Mecuri skitting around as Leonard Balin from Trifle Gathering Productions
• Zapoppin’: Z-shaped power-skiffle played on organ, banjo and box
• Mac Dunlop: Taking inspiration from a single word and what it might inspire
• Frea Lockley: Tea, ladies? Or tea ladies. Comfort or wisdom? Come and find out.
• Gareth May: How to be a man. Tall order? Tall man. Preview of forthcoming tome.
• Ross and Barny: Arts festival or Shmarzfestival? Deep insight.
• Luke Richards reading from his book on tribute bands