Grab your diary and hold the date! Our pre-Christmas Festive Fandango returns on December Fifteenth after a sell-out event last year. Combining music and words we will offer a feast of fine things at Exeter Phoenix, with fizz and and festive nibbles amongst the mastery, mayhem and magic on offer!

Edward Tripp will bless us with his presence as our special guest. The frighteningly funny master of the surreal will be introducing his new anthology of poems, freshly minted off the press. Songsmith Peter Farrie, so popular in 2026, will entertain and serenade us with his delightful ditties. There may even be a community song which we will all contribute to on the night!

We will be joined by a cast of readers with both fresh and familiar writing about the festive season, with stories, poems, reflections, memories and hopes for the future as the year proceeds towards its end.

Our fiercely contested book quiz will be back. Last year a team swept all before them and we expect there to be to be a sharp elbow or two as teams battle it out to be book champions. Don't worry - we've sacked Pippa as quiz master, and because it's Christmas EVERYONE will get a present!

Do come along and experience the joy and jollity in convivial company.