Agatha Christie Festival collaborates through the spring and summer months with local community-based charitable organisations to deliver a series of arts participation and performance events with residents and schools across the English Riviera.
Monday 15th September 2025, 9:00am
Agatha Christie Festival in partnership with The Writers Block: Torbay Primary School Years 5/6 Creative Writing Workshops 15-19 September 2025 will be announced in Spring 2025. Watch for news and book your class for free dynamic & developmental sessions.
Monday 17th March 2025, 9:00am
We’re looking for new young writing talent in Devon
The Agatha Christie Festival is joining forces with Libraries Unlimited, Literature Works and Torre Abbey to bring you The Agatha Christie Festival Young People’s Mystery Short Story Writing Competition. Together, we are inviting aspiring young writers aged between 8 and 18 years of age, who live or go to school or college in Devon or Torbay, to write a short story involving a mystery and enter it into our competition to discover the most talented mystery authors of the future. There are great prizes and recognition to be won.
Monday 14th October 2024, 10:30am
FULLY BOOKED New exclusive for A-Level Eng Lit students at Torbay schools
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Monday 9th September 2024, 9:00am
A Sleuth’s Trail; The Mystery of the Golden Arm-Ring
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Thursday 22nd August 2024, 8:00am
Agatha Christie spent the first 30 years of her life in Devon and later bought her holiday home, Greenway, on the banks of the River Dart. This podcast, hosted by Sophie Pierce and Matt Newbury, tells the story of her life in Torquay and the surrounding area and how her love for the area influenced her characters and work.
Rosalind Hicks Charitable Trust
