Venues throughout the Westcotes area have joined together to put on their own literary festival.
The Westwords Festival 2014 opened on Friday at Westcotes Library and since then events have been happening across the neighbourhood both day and night.
The launch event featured a reading by performance poet Lydia Towsey.
The 10-day festival will include more than 40 hours of community events at the library and elsewhere.
Events continue throughout the rest of this week until the finale on Sunday.
Among the first of the events was a Midnite Write event between midnight and 1am yesterday morning.
Events on Saturday also included How to Read a Poem at the library and other performances took place at The Western pub in Western Road and Yesim Café in Narborough Road.
