Enjoy four days of wonderful local crafts, bookish organisations, authors and published books of all genres at the Festival Literary Village, under the red and white stripes of Newark’s Royal Market.
Bring your little ones for a Little Roars Musical Play session at St Mary Magdalene Church on the opening morning of Newark Book Festival.
Get your wonderful imaginations ready to craft up a feast fit for a fairytale at the Ally Pally Arts Story Emporium at Newark Book Festival's Literature Village.
Join picture book author Frances Stickley for a morning packed full of stories and imagination at BeanBlock Café in Newark.
Get your pens at the ready as we celebrate the launch of the Newark Creates BookBench Trail with bookmaking and journalling at the National Civil War Centre.
Join poet Joseph Coelho for a wonderful kids Vs adults poetry workshop at Newark Library and be inspired to write your own poem!
Join Newark Library for the launch of the Summer Reading Challenge with a hilarious tale - This Rock is Mine, with Illustrator Alice McKinley.
Discover magical worlds with our family free sessions in Newark Market Place as words and stories tumble out of a mysterious shed of stories.
Newark Library is the setting for an inspiring storytelling by Miriam Halahmy. Don't forget to join in the workshop in the afternoon!
Head to Inspire Buttermarket for fun, noisy creative drop-in play sessions in their interactive music room to play in an inspiring way!
A free event which is not to be missed as the talented Urban Canvas transform the market place with their unique word art.
Join Newark Book Festival for a day of Play at the Castle, filled with adventure, yoga, storytelling, colouring and much, much more!