ULVERSTON is to add another festival to its lengthy list next year as South Cumbria Playwrights have been awarded a National Lottery grant of £22,500 to stage a four-day literary festival.
It will be staged in February 2003 and will be a culmination of public events for songwriters, poets, novelists and playwrights and will be called Word Market.
The lottery grant is to help stage the first two years of the festival but Word Market has to find match funding.
So far the group has raised £9,000, which includes a grant of £6,000 from the South Cumbria Community Key Fund and £200 from Ulverston Town Council.
l A NEW book about the Lake District and memories of Cumbria is to be launched in Ulverston next week.
Lakeland Yesterday by Irvine Hunt, which includes nearly 200 period illustrations, tells of a Cumbrian way of life from a century ago.
Mr Hunt will be at the Coronation Hall next Tuesday, May 7, at 7.30pm to launch his new book.
Following the launch Mr Hunt will host a slide show and talk.
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