Louth Words Festival 2025
A Festival of the Spoken Word with a Local Flavour.
Free to attend for all
Celebrating Poetry, Lincolnshire Dialect, Prose and Oral History
Open Mic events for allcomers
Writing Workshops
Films & Reels
Thursday 2nd October to Saturday 4th October
Multi-venue within Louth:
Louth Library
Playhouse Cinema
Town & Country Club
With funding assistance from ELIF, and support from Playhouse Cinema & Town & Country Club Louth
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Programme of Events
Thursday 2nd October – National Poetry Day
Conoco Rooms Louth Library – morning 10am to 12noon: Poetry Readings by local group Nunsthorpe Poets who will read their work to celebrate National Poetry Day
Playhouse Cinema – 7pm for 7.30pm: “Paterson” – a Film by Jim Jarmusch, starring Adam Driver
Friday 3rd October
Louth Library – 3pm-5pm: Writing Workshop hosted by Rowan McCabe, “The Doorstep Poet”.
Conoco Rooms – 5pm-8.30pm: Performance “Hard Knocks” by Rowan McCabe with support from Tracy Booth, Rob Etty, and Pete Green, as well as Open Mic Sessions.
Tickets available from Louth Library (free to attend).
Saturday 4th October
Louth Library Conoco Rooms – 1pm-2pm: Writing Workshop “Plot a Mystery” hosted by Nick Louth.
Louth Library Conoco Rooms – 2pm-3.30pm: Performance “Lincolnshire Folk Tales Re-imagined”, featuring Rory Waterman, Rob Etty, Fee Griffin & Jane Simmons.
Town and Country Club – 4pm till late: with Open Mic Sessions throughout the event, Visual & Oral Histories, Performances & Readings:
turn up and showcase your own material throughout the afternoon and evening schedule, together with Visual and Oral Histories: “Growing up in Louth” and “Louth Markets”, interspersed with performances from;
4pm “Far Welter’d” Lincolnshire Dialect Society
5pm Kathryn Daszkiewicz & John Scarborough;
6:30pm Rory Waterman & Lynda Plater;
8:00pm Ian Gouge “Crash”
9pm John Ashbrook “Late Night Tales” with Kate Cherrell, John Ashbrook and Tim Brunning
Times and performance artists’ schedule may be subject to change.