To our creative punters, the submission form is now up on the website - you can now find it in the main menu. We look forward to seeing your Biblio entries, which need to be submitted - online only in the first instance - by the end of October. Over November, we'll advise next steps - works selected for exhibition will be advised in time to have them here by end of November. The Biblio Art Prize began in 2009, and has been running since - with the exception of last year. It's your...

Please follow this link and watch Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers, deliver his moving 2026 PEN speech. If you don't want to watch the video, a link to the transcript is below the image. But I do, really, recommend hearing it from Max himself. "Might we re-child our ideas of solidarity, of community, of survival — weren’t all utopias deemed childish compared to the big, grown-up work of bombing the fuck out of stuff, and Hurting People? Just because we are centuries deep...

For our first meet, we asked our guests to bring a dish from a favourite cookbook. Any dish, any cookbook. We ended up with a wonderful and varied feast, which was also delightfully vegetarian. It was a great way to meet our local foodies, to make new connections over tasty dishes - in short, a cheap and fun way to have a night out with delicious food and great company. If you would like to join our next Cookbook Book Club, look out for the event on our website and PLEASE RSVP. It really...