UK’s Harrogate announces History Festival
As a half-Yorkist, on my mother’s side, it gives me great pleasure to announce that the venerable Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate will be hosting the first Harrogate History Festival, on October...
View ArticleA Conversation with Liz Ward, The Leeds Big Bookend Festival (Interview)
After she commented on my posts about UK book festivals, I contacted Liz Ward, leading organizer of the Leeds Big Bookend Festival, which exists “to celebrate Leeds’ rich literary heritage and to...
View ArticleLiterary festivals non-payment debate resurfaces
As some may recall, I ran a TeleRead piece a while back pulling together a series of alarming reports that indicate that too many literary festivals are little more than money-grubbing scams. Now a...
View ArticleKrakow made UNESCO City of Literature
The Polish city of Krakow has just been granted the status of UNESCO City of Literature – only the second non-Anglophone city to receive the honor, and the first in continental Europe. This puts...
View ArticleLeeds Big Bookend brings northern rock for words yet again
Dubbed “a rock festival for words,” the Leeds Big Bookend 2014 festival, running June 7th and 8th this year, for the third year running, will be headlining with “An Audience with Alan Bennett” at the...
View ArticleThe Edinburgh International Book Festival 2014: Some concluding images
Here is a montage of shots from the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2014 – just to give you all a taste. And here’s to next year – in another country, perhaps ? The post The Edinburgh...
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Pitching Literary Festivals, Genre Boundaries And Crime Fiction. With Clare...
I attend quite a few literary festivals and I always come away having learned something. I definitely think they are worth going to for the new perspectives as well as the networking opportunities....
View ArticleEdinburgh International Book Festival gets lottery grant support for further...
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has just announced a £175,000 ($275,000) grant that will enable it to branch out from its normal remit of organizing the summer Festival events at Charlotte...
View ArticleCheltenham LitFest comes out in favor of fair pay for authors
The topic of fair pay for authors and other speakers participating in literary festivals is one that simply doesn’t ever seem to go away. I wrote a piece a couple of years ago highlighting how, in the...
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Storm gathers in UK literary circles over non-paying book festivals
Following a very public decision by Philip Pullman to step down as patron of the Oxford Literary Festival because of its refusal to pay fees to participating authors, other British writers are uniting...
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