The Aurora Prize for Writing 2025

The Aurora Prize for Writing 2025 is now open for entries! This year, Writing East Midlands is accepting short stories of up to 2,000 words per entry and poetry of up to 60 lines per entry; in any genre, on any subject! Aurora is a national competition open to writers aged 18 and above.

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Hot new shows for summer

Get ready for an exciting summer of art, craftmanship and creativity as the Peak District Artisans’ summer season gets underway. The region’s most talented artists will be taking part in two new events, showcasing their work in all its inventiveness and diversity.

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Derby Book Festival 2025 opens on Friday!

Derby Book Festival celebrates the 10th anniversary at the Summer Festival 2025 which opens on Friday 23 May with 60 events planned in venues across the city over the following 10 days. 

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Meet the Vikings in Duckmanton

On Saturday 7 June Chesterfield Museum will be partnering with Duckmanton Primary School to bring an interactive Viking exhibition to the Summer Fayre as part of the Museum on the Move project. At the free exhibition, you can discover who the Vikings were, learn about their beliefs and stories and explore everyday life as a Viking.

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Derby Book Festival appeal for children’s books

Derby Book Festival is launching an appeal for donations of children’s books to be given to less fortunate children in the city who may not have books at home. Derby Book Festival is asking local residents to have a clear out at home and collect up any previously loved, but now unwanted, children’s books, ideally for children under eleven

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Joseph Wright of Derby: Life on Paper

This spring, Derby Museum and Art Gallery reveals a deeply tender, rarely seen intimate side to the internationally-renowned artist Joseph Wright (1734 – 1797) in its new exhibition Joseph Wright of Derby: Life on Paper (23 May – 7 September 2025). 

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