Arts Council welcomes expansion of festival’s ‘Spoken Word’ area

The ‘Spoken Word’ area at this year’s Electric Picnic festival has been expanded this year to include everything from theatre to political discourse to how to put out your first novel.

Speaking today, Mary Cloake, director of the Arts Council said: “We’re very excited about being part of the Electric Picnic. For us, this is a superb opportunity to showcase great writers in a new context, to an audience of 32,000 festival goers.”