We've got some extra funding which has enabled us to reduce the price for our Arnold Bennett Day on 17 May. The fee is now £35 for whole day's worth of AB-related activities

Went on a walk around Burslem cemetery with Paul Ruane. Saw Arnold Bennett’s grave. The tour was by Mervyn Edwards. It was wonderful. Do not forget you can still get tickets to the ArnoldBennettSociety AB day on Saturday

This is rather lovely: "Scablands and Other Stories" Salt Books has won the 2025 Arnold Bennett Prize. Thank you so much to the judges and the wonderful ArnoldBennettSociety #scablands UoL Press Office College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities NAWE Jenny Amphlett StokeonTrentLive Creative Writing at Leicester The Society of Authors

Here's a pic of Jonathan Taylor, awarded this year's Arnold Bennett Book Prize, with Morag Jones, head of our judging panel, at yesterday's AB Day

"Arnold Bennett changed my life" le.ac.uk/news/2025/may/…

In today's Stoke Sentinel, Fred Hughes acclaims the Arnold Bennett Book Prize and finds other literary associations with North Staffs

Born #OTD 1867, Arnold Bennett (d 1931). At one stage, editor of Woman mag, before committing to writing full time. Famous for tales from The Potteries – Anna of the Five Towns, the Old Wives Tale, also demonstrated a light touch with the almost farcical The Card (Penguin 1975).

The author Arnold Bennett was born ##OTD 27 May 1867 in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. He was prolific and successful, many of his books set in what he called 'the five towns' of the Potteries. He sits reading in Bethesda Street, Hanley, outside the Potteries Art Gallery and Museum. 1/3

Brilliant Word Factory review of Jonathan Taylor’s Scablands and Other Stories ‘These are richly imagined tales of austerity, migration, addiction, poverty and trauma, told with Taylor’s trademark inventiveness.’ thewordfactory.tv/review-of-scab…

A happy 88th birthday to John Lucas, author of the still-invaluable 1974 study of Arnold Bennett's novels ... and recent participant in our celebration of poet/novelist/critic John Wain's centenary

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Tickets still available, but selling fast. newvictheatre.org.uk/productions/th…

Arnold Bennett's 'artistic advantage' over Virginia Woolf; our author's fondness for heaving bosoms; @sathnam's Marriage Material on stage ... All this and more in the Society's latest newsletter, newly arrived in members' mailboxes

Five FREE guided walks ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on?q=Arn…

Autumn discussion on The Old Wives Tale and Marriage Material. Booking details: [email protected]

London's BFI Southbank (aka the National Film Theatre) is running an Anna May Wong season, so of course there are showings of Piccadilly, 'one of the silent era’s most captivating films', with a scenario by Arnold Bennett whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default…

The Arnold Bennett Society is privileged to support and promote the much anticipated production of The Grand Babylon Hotel and wish every success with its run commencing tonight. Ray Johnson, Chair Carol Gorton, Secretary

Three Heritage walks completed, two more to go. Dudson Museum 2pm, 24th Sept and 2pm, 1st October. From Hope Street, to Potteries Museum. Green Door Guide. Last about one hour. Book via ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on?q=arn… or just turn up. See you then.