The Book and Arts’ Festival provides young people with the wonderful opportunity to meet, listen to and work with authors. Their experiences during the Festival week will inspire many young people to develop a wider interest in literature and encourage them to experiment in their own writing.
This year’s Festival is again a busy time for schools. The Young Writers’ Competition for both junior and senior pupils and sponsored by Nairn Rotary Club, will take place during the Festival. Acclaimed authors, Cynthia Rogerson and Kenneth Steven will lead these events which have in previous years demonstrated the talent of our young writers.
Poetry will feature strongly this year with local Primary schools planning to hold poetry festivals where pupils and others will perform. Kenneth Steven will also be giving a selection of readings to pupils from his poetry anthologies and also his very popular novels for children.
The Festival programme offers young people the opportunity to experience the work of a wide range of extremely talented authors and will be encouraging them to attend as many events as possible.
The Festival looks forward to welcoming its local, young, talented writers and artists to its programme in the future.
