Peter Mortimer, editor of IRON Press, reports: "The festival was a celebration of a place, Cullercoats, a celebration of quality writing and music, a celebration of the downright odd and a celebration of life itself, be this in invoking midnight ghosts, gobbling down existentialist breakfasts, or guffawing at craggy old poets attempting (usually unsuccessfully) to swing a cricket bat."

To find out what you missed, see the Festival programme!