AYE WRITE! GLASGOW'S BOOK FESTIVAL
Mitchell Library and Theatre
6 - 14 March 2009
Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival celebrates the rich variety of Glaswegian writing and also brings the best of Scottish and international writers to the city. The programme includes a mix of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose, screenwriting and graphic novels along with sessions on illustration and storytelling.
There are over 60 sessions in the main programme with past speakers including Louise Welsh, William McIlvanney, Billy McNeill, Ian McEwan, Roy Hattersley, Maggie O'Farrell, Iain Banks, Andrew Marr and Stuart Murdoch. In addition to over 70 weekday events for schools, there are weekend sessions for children.
Contact: Wilma Moore
Glasgow City Council
Libraries, information and learning
Mitchell Library
North Street
Glasgow
G3 7DN
Tel: +44 (0)141 287 2806
Fax: +44 (0)141 287 2871
Web links: http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Visitors/AyeWriteGlasgowsBookFe stival/
ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL
March 2009
A month long festival bringing readers and writers together throughout the county, with many events in libraries. The festival showcases new writers as well as bringing a range of established writers to Essex. Germaine Greer, Mike Ripley and Francis Wheen are patrons of the festival
Contact: June Turner (Reader Development Manager)
Essex Library Headquarters
Goldlay Gardens
Chelmsford
Essex
CM2 0EW
Tel: +44 (0)1245 244953\par Box Office +44 (0)1206 573948 \par
Fax: +44 (0)1245 492780
E-Mail: june.turner@essexcc.gov.uk
Web links: http://www.essexbookfestival.org.uk
HALLAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL (BIENNIAL)
March 2008
A biennial festival with a number of readings, events and discussions.
Contact: Archie Markham
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus
Howard Street
Sheffield
S1 1WB
Tel: +44 (0)114 253 2228
E-Mail: e.a.markham@shu.ac.uk
HUDDERSFIELD LITERATURE FESTIVAL
7 - 16 March 2008
Various venus around Huddersfield
This year's authors include Joanne Harris, (festival patron), who'll
be discussing her life and work, including her new book The Lollipop
Shoes; zany poet Nick Toczek who'll show you how to twist a rhyme and
turn rhythm into poems, with a few magic tricks up his sleeve;
novelist and broadcaster Stuart Maconie, who'll be reading from and
discussing his new book Pies and Prejudice; plus sharp, silver-tongued
performance poetry and lyrics fromGeneration TxT.
Contact: Rommi Smith, Creative Writing Projects Officer and Festival Co-ordinator
Tel: +44 (0) 1484 471 895
E-mail: brochure@litfest.org.uk
KING'S LYNN FICTION FESTIVAL
King's Lynn Town Hall
13 - 15 March 2009
A fiction festival featuring readings and talks. The Fiction Festival will be at its usual venue, the Town Hall on the Saturday Market Place.
Contact: Anthony Ellis (Chairman)
19 Tuesday Market Place
King's Lynn
Norfolk
PE30 1JW
Tel: +44 (0)1553 691661 (day)/+44 (0)1553 761919 (evening)
Fax: +44 (0)1553 691779
Web links: http://www.lynnlitfests.com
KING'S SUTTON LITERARY FESTIVAL
King's Sutton Memorial Hall
7 - 8 March 2009
Please do join us on 7th & 8th March 2009 to meet old friends and make new ones, and to celebrate King’s Sutton’s Weekend World of Books
Contact: Jackie Bradley
4 Church Avenue
Kings Sutton
Banbury
Oxon
OX17 3RJ
E-mail: tickets@kslitfest.co.uk
OUNDLE FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE
7 - 21 March 2009
Featuring a programme of author events, poetry, philosophy, politics, story telling, biography, illustrators and novelists for young and old.
Contact: Liz Dillarstone (Publicity)
2 Herne Road
Oundle
PE8 4BS
Northamptonshire
Tel: +44 (0)1832 274960
Fax: +44 (0)1832 277173
E-Mail: Liz@oundlelitfest.org.uk
Web links: http://www.oundlelitfest.org.uk
STANZA: SCOTLAND'S POETRY FESTIVAL
St Andrews
18 - 22 March 2009
The only regular festival dedicated to poetry in Scotland, StAnza is international in outlook. Founded in 1998, it is held each March in St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university town. The festival is an opportunity to engage with a wide variety of poetry, to hear world class poets reading in exciting and atmospheric venues, to experience a range of performances where music, film, dance and poetry work in harmony, to view exhibitions linking poetry with visual art and to discover the part poetry has played in the lives of a diverse range of writers, musicians and media personalities. The simple intention of StAnza is to celebrate poetry in all its many forms.
Contact: Brian Johnstone (Festival Director)
Registered Office:
57 Lade Braes
St Andrews
Fife
Scotland
KY16 9DA
Tel: +44 (0)1333 360 491 (Administration) +44 (0)1334 475 000 (Box Office) +44 (0)1592 414 714 (Programmes)
E-Mail: admin@stanzapoetry.org
Web links: http://www.stanzapoetry.org
WORDS BY THE WATER
Theatre by the Lake
27 February - 8 March 2008
Literature festival organised by Ways With Words. For ten days writers and readers get together to share the pleasure of books, words and ideas.
Contact: Kay Dunbar
Ways with Words
Droridge Farm
Dartington
Totnes
Devon
TQ9 6JG
Tel: +44 (0)1803 867373 (Administration)/+44 (0)1803 867311 (Box office)
Fax: +44 (0)1803 863688
E-Mail: admin@wayswithwords.co.uk
Web links: http://www.wayswithwords.co.uk
YORK LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2009
1 - 15 March 2009
Two weeks celebrating the written and spoken word in one of England's most beautiful cities. This year, the festival will draw to an end the celebrations for the National Year of Reading in York.
Contact: Sarah Garbacz
Address: Read Write York
Mill House
North Street
York YO1 6JD
Tel: +44 (0)1904 554 316
e-mail: read.write@york.gov.uk
Website: www.readwriteyork.co.uk
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