2025’s festival has the theme of connections and in addition to a great line up of readers there will be a exhibition of visual and text poetry, with a tribute to the work of Alan Halsey.
The The Tears in the Fence Festival 2024 celebrated forty years of independent literary publishing. It is a privilege to write my column, Electric Blue, for this fine journal.
The Tears in the Fence Festival theme 2023 was ‘Permacrisis, Reconciliation and Survival’. I wrote about the theme in Tears in the Fence issue 78.
The Tears in the Fence Festival theme 2022 was Bewilderment / Be-wildered/ Be wild. My Festival address on the theme was published in Tears in the Fence issue 76.
Morag Smyth 