In 2023, Crossing the Tees Book Festival commissioned three artists to deliver a micro-commission during the festival. Julie Kirk and Suzie Devey delivered book-based craft workshops, and Lucy Harding created a Wuthering Heights art installation. These micro-commissions were so successful that we decided to commission three more artists for the 2024 festival. Artists and creatives… Continue reading Meet Our Micro-Commission Artists
Crossing the Tees Book Festival has a history of supporting emerging writers with our short story competition (now in its seventh year), open mic events and writing workshops. The festival invites authors from all over the country to speak to our audiences, but we wanted to do more to promote and inspire local authors. We… Continue reading Local Author’s Showcased at Crossing the Tees
Crossing the Tees Book Festival invites writers from the Tees Valley region to apply to appear on a Meet the Local Author panel event. The event will take place on an evening during the festival period of 8 to 16 June 2024. The panel event will allow writers the opportunity to introduce themselves and their… Continue reading 2024 Local author opportunity!
Crossing the Tees Book Festival invites artists and creatives from the Tees Valley region to submit proposals for a book-related activity for an adult audience to take place during the festival period of 8 to 16 June 2024. This could be a workshop, art installation, performance – we are excited to hear your creative ideas.… Continue reading 2024 Micro-Commission Opportunity!
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Crossing the Tees Book Festival a writer-in-residence and a photographer-in-residence were commissioned to spend time in libraries throughout the five authorities of the Teesside area. Writer Debbie Rolls and photographer Jo Booth with Sixth Element Publishing produced ‘Everyone Welcome: Remembering and Celebrating Teesside Public Libraries’. In this fantastic book… Continue reading ‘Everyone Welcome: Remembering and Celebrating Teesside Public Libraries’
Crossing the Tees Book Festival are thrilled to announce the shortlisted authors for 2022’s short story competition. Judges author James Harris, author and bookseller Jenna Warren and former librarian Ian Wilson read over a hundred stories to choose the thirty-one stories which will appear in the sixth Crossing the Tees anthology published by Sixth Element… Continue reading 2022 Short Story Competition Finalists Announced!
As part of the tenth annual Crossing the Tees Book Festival we are celebrating the social history of the libraries of the Tees Valley. Writer-in-residence Debbie Rolls and photographer-in-residence Jo Booth will work with Sixth Element Publishing to produce a beautiful book curating tales of Teesside residents’ experiences of using libraries. Debbie and Jo will… Continue reading Crossing the Tees 10th Anniversary Book
FESTIVAL BACKGROUND Crossing the Tees Book Festival returns for its tenth year in June 2023, thanks to a collaboration between the library services across the Tees Valley; Stockton, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Hartlepool and Redcar & Cleveland, supported by funding from Arts Council England. The festival is hosted in libraries across the region and includes author events,… Continue reading PHOTOGRAPHER-IN-RESIDENCE BRIEF – CROSSING THE TEES BOOK FESTIVAL 2023
FESTIVAL BACKGROUND Crossing the Tees Book Festival returns for its tenth year in June 2023, thanks to a collaboration between the library services across the Tees Valley; Stockton, Middlesbrough, Darlington, Hartlepool and Redcar & Cleveland, supported by funding from Arts Council England. The festival is hosted in libraries across the region and includes author events,… Continue reading WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE BRIEF – CROSSING THE TEES BOOK FESTIVAL 2023
Crossing the Tees Book Festival invites artists and creatives from the Tees Valley region to submit proposals for a book-related activity to take place during the festival period of 10 to 17 June 2023. This could be a workshop, art installation, performance – we are excited to hear your creative ideas. The activity must be… Continue reading 2023 Micro-Commission Opportunity!
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