Excitement is growing in the build up to the 2021 Yeovil Literary Festival, which starts on Thursday 28 October. The YCAA is proud to be a partner of the Yeovil Literary Festival alongside the Octagon Theatre, Waterstone’s, South Somerset District Council and Somerset County Council. The popular annual event has been drawing a range of…
Novel, poetry and short story prize winners will feature in this Yeovil Literary Festival event.
The September update from Elaine of the YCAA Book Club.
YCAA members can claim discounts on some 2021 Yeovil Literary Festival tickets.
Waterstones and the YCAA is encouraging enthusiastic readers to join them on Thursday 30th September 2021 for the Good Book Winners Debate.
Titles shortlisted for the 2021 Yeovil Literary Prize have been announced.
The YCAA is delighted to announce the return of two of its most popular annual events, the Good Book Winners Debate, in association with Waterstones, and the Winter Impromptu.
Titles longlisted for the 2021 Yeovil Literary Prize have been announced.
This month, the Book Club were delighted to meet face-to-face for the first time this year.
The YCAA is looking for new volunteers to continue its work in South Somerset and the surrounding area.
Congratulations to the winners of our children’s writing competition.
Applications for this year’s YCAA sponsorship grants must arrive by Saturday 31/07/2021.
An important update for entrants to the 2021 international Yeovil Literary Prize.
The YCAA Book Club dates for late 2021 have been announced, along with the books we will be reading.
A former Yeovil Literary Prize winner’s book is due for publication in September.
Author Tracey Gemmell joined the YCAA Book Club meeting this month.
The closing date for this year’s international Yeovil Literary Prize has been extended to Friday 31st May 2021.
YCAA Book Club welcomes a special guest in April, Tracey Gemmel, author of ‘Dunster’s Calling’.
There were lively discussions about this month’s reads at the YCAA Book Club! Find out what people thought in Elaine’s March update.
YCAA is delighted to announce a competition for young writers in years 4, 5 and 6. Inspired by the hope we feel for better times to come, the competition theme is ‘Now We Are Free’. Stories should be up to 500 words long and entry is free. The winners will be chosen by writer Tracey…
Welcome to the latest update from YCAA Book Club Co-ordinator Elaine! Book One: ‘Ladder to the Sky’ by John Boyne This month, our first book; ‘Ladder to the Sky’ introduced us to the most despicable main character any of the group could recall. Maurice Swift did not improve as he went through life and Tracey…
‘HOPE’ was the theme for our most recent mini-saga writing competition, and it was filled with hope which comes into our lives in so many guises. What we hope for isn’t necessarily what transpires, but in many ways, it leads us onwards. We had a tremendous response to this writing competition, which is always an…
Life throws us so many surprises – who would have thought a year ago that YCAA Book Club Co-Ordinator Elaine would be chatting to a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in her kitchen along with 23 other book lovers courtesy of Zoom!
On 12/01/2021, the YCAA Book Club will welcome special guest Damian Barr, author of ‘You will be Safe Here’.
Introducing an update on our latest Book Club get-together from Co-Ordinator Elaine. It is deeply comforting to read books that we are used to and that reinforce our feelings of security and happiness. Pushing our reading outside of personal comfort zones can be challenging, but this is precisely what Book Club is so very good…
The dates for next year’s book group meetings are now available.
We are delighted to announce the launch of the 2020 YCAA and Western Gazette newspaper mini-saga writing competition.
YCAA is delighted to announce the winners of its 2020 Yeovil International Literary Prize.
The winners of the our annual Mini-Saga competition have been published in the 9th January 2020 edition of the Western Gazette newspaper.
Yeovil International Literary Prize is now open for entries. Organised by the Yeovil Community Arts Association and now in its 17th year, Yeovil International Literary Prize provides an opportunity to enter four very different categories.
The YCAA and the Western Gazette have launched the annual 50 word Mini Saga writing competition for 2020.
The full programme of Yeovil Literary Festival events for 2019 is now available! FInd out more on the Festival website.
This year’s highly anticipated Yeovil Literary Festival will take place from Thursday 31/10/2019 to Monday 04/11/2019. A full calendar of events will be announced in August.
It’s hard having a dream to become a book illustrator, or be involved in film making, but with hard work and commitment and a little help from people like you who donate and the YCAA charity, it can be achieved.
YCAA has received donations from Hazelgrove School, Helen Laxton Dance School and the Somerset School of Performing Arts, and Dance, Dance, Dance with The Dance Factory.
