Culture News & Updates
- 17th February 2026
Being awarded three years of Arts Council England (ACE) funding in 2025 has been transformative for the Good Shepherd’s creative programme, enabling an ambitious calendar of workshops and creative mentoring
- 14th February 2026
In the long, speech-based rhythms of the first, the page-as-artistry of the second and the shock-sequencing of the third, there is poetry enough. You don’t have to be a rhymester as well as a poet in order to be great.
- 14th February 2026
Life, love and loss. The poignant and absorbing portrayal of one
man's journey into old age.
- 12th February 2026
Join The Lord Chamberlain’s Men theatre company at Bantock House Museum and Park this Summer to see their captivating performance of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’, widely considered one of the playwright’s greatest works.
Celebrated theatre maker getting ready for another SOLD OUT performance directing The Father
- 9th February 2026
What is there still to be said about the Black Country?
- 7th February 2026
RM Francis is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton and is currently the poet in residence for the Black Country Geological Society
- 6th February 2026
Adapted by Paul Steventon-Marks. Produced by Oldbury Rep
‘Blood will have blood!…’
- 5th February 2026
Local poet, Glyn Phillips, is the 2026 Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Slam Champion, having been awarded the title after a tense (please excuse the pun), fast-moving and exciting competition held at Wolverhampton’s Arena Theatre
- 3rd February 2026
Wolverhampton Literature Festival is delighted to reveal the winners, runners-up, and shortlisted poets for this year’s WoLF poetry competition.