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in association with 15 - 31 March 2019 Kate Williams Joanna Trollope Kate Mosse Alan Johnson Liz Lochhead Chris Mullin The Full Bronte M.R. Carey Claire North www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk @YorkLitFest
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Pre-Festival event: Poetry For All Liz Lochhead & Steve Thursday 14 March 2019 @ 7.30pm Kettley: Somethings Old, Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate £5.50 Somethings New This Open Access Poetry event brings the joy of Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 7pm poetry and spoken word to all. It is fully accessible and has been specially created for people with St Peter's School £10.00 sight and hearing loss (and other disabilities), but From the bittersweet to the is open to everyone. Featuring professional poets rude and raunchy, poet and Donna Williams ("DeafFirefly"), Jackie Hagan and playwright Liz Lochhead, Imogen Godwin. weaves a spellbinding and beguiling show, mixing poems, Festival Launch: with Daisy Johnson, monologues and music. Accompanied by the soulful sax Everything Under of Steve Kettley she presents an Friday 15 March 2019 @ 7.30pm intoxicating mix of some of her best work over the past 45 years. ‘brilliant, raucous and scabrously York St John University, Temple Hall £8.00 funny’ (Sunday Times) Join us to launch the 2019 York Literature Festival with Daisy Johnson, the youngest writer ever to be shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Two Jorvik Poets prize. Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 6pm Daisy will discuss her debut, Everything Under, York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room which turns classical myth on its head and takes £3.00 readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to An evening of Anglo-Nordic most. poetry with two York-based poets, Rahul Gupta and Daniel Gustafsson. Both poets draw much inspiration from the Writing Poetry for Children history and landscape of the shire and share an interest in alliterative verse. The poets will read from Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 10am - 12.30pm new and published work in English, but will also offer samples of verse in Swedish and metrical York Explore Library and Archive £10.00 translations from Old English. Carole Bromley, judge of the new YorkMix Writing Poetry for Children prize and author of the children’s poetry collection Blast Vanity & Vision Off! will run a friendly, practical poetry workshop for poets of all Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 7pm levels, including beginners, in the course of which you will write a Mansion House £25.00 number of fun children’s poems and pick up tips on the particular An opulent evening of insight and entertainment from one of demands of writing for a young audience. England’s most spectacular periods of history in York’s finest Georgian building, the Mansion House. Journey 300 years into the past and mingle among the rooms and treasures as live chamber music by classical 18th century composers plays in the stunningly renovated State Room. We’ll settle you in this candle-lit environment with your welcome drink, as literature about the age will be presented in a modern recreation – a classic period narrative interpreted for the big cinema screen (the film will be announced on the York Literature Festival website). During the evening you will also enjoy a Baroque inspired meal platter and a bar will be available for purchase of drinks. 2 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 3
Speculative Fiction Day (Saturday 16 March 2019) In Conversation with Tade Thompson Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 4.30pm - 5.30pm York St John University, Temple Hall £6.00 Speculative Fiction Day - All Day Ticket Tade Thompson is the author of the award winning Rosewater, Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 11am - 9pm a novel set in Africa in 2066 in the aftermath of a global alien York St John University, Temple Hall £25.00 visitation. His novella The Murders of Molly Southbourne was Join us for a whole day focused on the theme of Speculative recently optioned for screen adaptation and he is also an award Worlds with a selection of author readings, lectures and panel winning short story writer. He will be in conversation with Rob events. Each event is individually priced or you can purchase an O'Connor (York Literature Festival). All Day Ticket for only £25. In Conversation with Sophie Mackintosh Terra Two Anthology Launch with Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 6pm - 7pm special guest Temi Oh York St John University, Temple Hall £6.00 Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 11am -1pm Sophie Mackintosh's work has appeared in Granta, The New York York St John University, Temple Hall £5.00 Times and The White Review, among others. Terra Two: An Ark for Survival is a York St Her debut novel The Water Cure was longlisted for the 2018 Man John University project with the key aim Booker Prize, and her next novel, Blue Ticket, is forthcoming in to help shape the first off-world human 2020. At this event Sophie will be in conversation about her work settlement through the lens of science fiction. with Professor Abi Curtis (York St John University). The editors of Terra Two will launch Science Fiction for Survival: An Anthology for Mars with readings from contributors. Our In Conversation with Claire North & M. R. Carey special guest will be author Temi Oh, a King’s College London Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 7.30pm - 9pm graduate in neuroscience whose first novel, Do You Dream of York St John University, Temple Hall £10.00 Terra-Two? centres on humans exploring and colonising other To end this special day of events York Literature Festival and York planets. She will be in conversation with Dr Liesl King (York St St John University welcome Claire North and M. R. Carey. Claire John University). North is a pseudonym for Catherine Webb, a Carnegie Medal- nominated author whose debut novel was written when she Flood Fictions was just 14 years old. She has fast established herself as one of Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 2.30pm - 3.30pm the most powerful and imaginative voices in modern fiction. Her York St John University, Temple Hall £5.00 first book published under the Claire North pen name was The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, which became a word-of-mouth Dr Caroline Edwards will discuss the utopian and apocalyptic bestseller and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. implications of a growing number of 21st century fictions that Her latest novel 84K received widespread critical acclaim and imagine extreme flood events. These narratives respond to our was described by bestselling author Emily St. John Mandel as ’an growing public awareness of climate change, rising sea levels eerily plausible dystopian masterpiece’. and possible ecocatastrophe. M. R. Carey has been making up stories for most of his life. His However, their radically transformed maps reveal new islands novel The Girl With All the Gifts has sold over a million copies as sites of utopian change that hint at different social worlds and became a major motion picture, based on his own BAFTA beyond neoliberal capitalism. Award-nominated screenplay. Under the name Mike Carey he After the lecture, Caroline will be in conversation with Professor has written for both DC and Marvel, including critically acclaimed Abi Curtis (York St John University), whose novel Water & Glass runs on Lucifer, Hellblazer and X-Men. depicts a world flooded by rising sea levels. Both authors will be in conversation about their work and the theme of speculative worlds with Rob O'Connor (York Literature Festival). 4 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 5
Door-to-Door Poetry In Conversation with Joanna Trollope Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 7.30pm Sunday 17 March 2019 @ 2pm The Hovel, South Bank Social Club £6.00 (£7.00 on the door) St Peter's School £15.00 What do you think would happen if you knocked on a stranger's Joanna Trollope has been writing for over thirty door and offered to write them a poem? Rowan McCabe is the years and is well known for her enormously world's first Door-to-Door Poet. Through a funny and thought- successful contemporary works of fiction. She provoking mix of spoken word and theatre, find out about his has been described as one of the most insightful adventures around the North East of England, from his visit to a chroniclers and social commentators writing council estate in Stockton, to his appearance on BBC Breakfast. fiction today. Joanna Trollope is the author of over 20 highly acclaimed and bestselling novels, The Writing Tree including The Rector's Wife, Marrying the Mistress, Saturday 16 March 2019 @ 8pm Daughters in Law and City of Friends. York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room Free This lively session showcases the talent of writers published by the Writing Tree, including an anthology by Converge students at York St John University, and the latest collection by Writing Tree writers, ‘Ocean’. We will also launch our new writer’s group, which aims to provide support, companionship and development opportunities for local writers of all abilities and experience levels. All welcome! Photo © Barker Evans Literary Themed Walk Through York Sunday 17 March 2019 @ 11am Entrance to Yorkshire Museum Gardens (Lendal) £8.00 Join Blue Badge Guide for Yorkshire David Holt on a literary themed tour of York. David has an outstanding knowledge of York Writing Engaging Fiction and Yorkshire as well as having taught History for almost 30 years. Monday 18 March 2019 @ 10am - 12pm Please book by contacting David on 07803 605037 or Kings Manor, Room K/033 £10.00 greatyorkshiretours@gmail.com Aimed at beginners, this workshop will explore how to hook your readers and make your fiction impossible to put down! We will examine how tension and excitement can be built into your Say It Like You Mean It - Performance Poetry Workshop writing through a range of techniques such as plot twists, figurative language, style and character Sunday 17 March 2019 @ 1pm-3pm development. The workshop will be run by Rob O'Connor, creative writing tutor at the Centre for York Explore Library and Archive £5.00 Lifelong Learning, University of York. Join poet and performer Rowan McCabe (winner of the 2015 Great Northern Slam) for a workshop which takes your poem from the page and brings it to life on the stage. Through a series of fun Vaseem Khan, Murder at the Grand Raj Palace games and exercises, we will explore crucial performance skills Monday 18 March 2019 @ 6pm and get a poem ready for that all important slam, open mic or York Explore Library and Archive £8.00 guest slot. Author Vaseem Khan will take readers on a journey from the days of the Raj to the heart of modern India, a colourful and conflicted environment of new wealth and historical problems. Vaseem will explore the realities of life in a country being transformed by global change whilst answering the intriguing question: how do you fit an elephant into a crime story? 6 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 7
Romance Panel The Remains of the Day Monday 18 March 2019 @ 6pm Tuesday 19 March to Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 7.30pm (Thu matinee York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room £3.00 2pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm) York authors international best seller K. L. Shandwick and Ava Manello, the team behind the York Theatre Royal, Main House From £15.00 successful Indie Author self publishing workshop will be talking to you about their books and 1930s England. Darlington Hall runs like clockwork under Stevens, answering questions on self publishing. one of the last truly great butlers, all while England stands on a precipice, as fascism builds and boils in Europe. 2017 Nobel Prize Valley Press Poets winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, which became a beloved Merchant Monday 18 March 2019 @ 7pm Ivory film, is now transformed into an exquisite stage play by one of Britain’s most exciting writers, Barney Norris. It is a story for City Cruises, King's Staith £10.00 anyone who has ever been afraid to follow their heart. Join poets Anthony Dunn (Newdigate Prize and Eric Gregory Award winner), Penny Boxall (Edwin Morgan Poetry Award winner), Wendy Pratt (YorkMix Poetry Competition winner) and Pre-Show Talk for The Remains of the Day with Barney Norris Charlotte Eichler (published in PN Review, The Rialto and Stand) Wednesday 20 March 2019 @ 6.30pm in a celebratory showcase of poetry to coincide with Valley Press’10 year anniversary. To buy tickets York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room Free please go to citycruisesyork.com. Don't miss the Pre-show Talk of The Remains of the Day with adaptor Barney Norris on adapting the novel and working with Kazuo Ishiguro. This event is free but please book your place via Box Office. The Wordsmiths Monday 18 March 2019 @ 8pm Between Heaven and Hell: Constructing Dystopia York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room £3.00 Wednesday 20 March 2019 @ 10am - 12pm The Wordsmiths are a well-established York writing group. We have been experimenting with Kings Manor, Room K/033 £10.00 writing in different genres and will showcase short stories of less than 500 words and short poems. This participative workshop, designed for both experienced and beginner writers, will explore Our tutor is Pat Borthwick, a widely published and award winning poet and writer. There are ten of essential skills to conceive and write convincing dystopian fiction. Sessions on believable world- us in the Wordsmiths, with very individual styles which we hope you will enjoy. building, dystopian characters, how ‘big ideas’ can meet dynamic plots to keep the reader hooked, the language of dystopia and how other literary genres fruitfully connect with dystopian fiction, will equip you to create your very own Heaven or Hell… or perhaps somewhere in between! The Art of Translation & Contemporary Iranian Literature Tim Murgatroyd, Pilgrim Tale Tuesday 19 March 2019 @ 6.30pm Wednesday 20 March 2019 @ 7pm Quaker Meeting House £8.00 Waterstones £5.00 To celebrate the launch of The Book of Tehran published by Who would you sacrifice to live forever? York author Tim Comma Press, join us for a reading and conversation around Murgatroyd launches and talks about his latest novel, Pilgrim Tale translation and exciting new short fiction from Iran! Experience (Cloud Lodge Books). The first instalment of a dystopian trilogy the vibrancy, subtlety and sophistication of Persian writing – the set in North Yorkshire, Pilgrim Tale has been described as ‘a vision use of imagery, metaphor, satire, comedy as well as the rhythms of the future that is terrifyingly possible and at the same time and cadences of the prose. Hear about the process, challenges outlandishly and pleasurably inventive’. and art of translation, all which will provide a glimpse into the real life of Tehran. 8 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 9
The Forgotten Works, Phenomena Stronger. Braver. Wiser. with Jennifer Potter Wednesday 20 March 2019 @ 7.30pm Thursday 21 March 2019 @ 6pm Fossgate Social, 25 Fossgate, York YO1 9TA £2.00 York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room £5.00 All spaces are haunted: by those who have come before us, and by Jennifer Potter might never have said anything. But after seeing our past, present and future selves. In Phenomena, The Forgotten the progress made by the #MeToo movement, she knew she had Works (Oz Hardwick, Amina Alyal and Karl Baxter) use spoken to speak up. So she told the police about her rape. Jennifer Potter word, music, electronic sounds, and lights to create a unique shares her journey from keeping a shameful secret to finding the atmosphere in which time stretches and thins, spaces become courage to speak her truth. It is a story of triumph and offers a permeable, and the divisions between discrete senses blur and disappear into a haunted whole. sign post for anyone who’s been through difficult times about the road to find peace, especially for those that share the wounds of Launch of WITCH by Rebecca Tamás rape and sexual violence. The ticket price will be going to the charity IDAS (Independent Domestic Wednesday 20 March 2019 @ 7.30pm Abuse Services). York Medical Society Free Experience the darkly magical poetry of Rebecca Tamás at the launch of her highly anticipated debut collection WITCH, The Full Bronte alongside Raymond Antrobus (The Perserverance) and Rachael Thursday 21 March 2019 @ 6.30pm Allen (Kingdomland). Tamás will explore the hidden histories of The Centre @ Burnholme £10.00 woman; her triumphs, fears, oppressions and strength, through Join hosts Maria (glamour puss, academic, the symbolic lens of the witch archetype. These are poems that thespian) and her assistant Brannie (dog’s body, unsettle, intrigue and bewitch. ensemble cast, backstage crew) in their chaotic attempt to homage the Bronte family! Combining How To Channel Your Literature Degree into Genre Screenwriting comedy, storytelling, music, and games, this Thursday 21 March 2019 @ 10am show of wuthering delights is a literary cabaret Kings Manor, Room K/033 £10.00 like no other. Car parking is available at the Writer and Director Miles Watts has created imaginative cinematic worlds over the past two venue. decades. Beginning with no/low budget films made from his own screenplays, Miles has forged an independent film career making genre and cult movies that have taken in worldwide film festivals and national cinema tours, culminating in 2018 with the creation of a feature version of Diane Setterfield, Once Upon A River his cult comedy-horror web series Zomblogalypse, filmed in York. Miles will share his screenwriting Thursday 21 March 2019 @ 6.30pm techniques and literary inspirations, from classics to modern screenplays, that have informed his Quaker Meeting House £10.00 writing style. "It was the longest night of the year when the strangest of things happened…" Kim McCabe, From Daughter to Woman Diane Setterfield, author of The Thirteenth Thursday 21 March 2019 @ 6pm Tale and Once Upon a River, discusses folklore, The Mount School £5.00 romance and the power of storytelling against Join Kim McCabe as she discusses practical ways to make the the backdrop of an ancient inn on the banks of teenager’s journey safer, kinder and better supported, so that the river one dark and stormy midwinter night. everyone can better enjoy the adolescent years. This talk is for everyone interested in steering their daughters happily through their teens, from parents of daughters age 8 – 18 years, flummoxed grandmothers and caring aunties, to anyone who works closely with pre-teen and teenage girls. 10 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 11
Writing the Maternal with Liz Berry, Jessie Greengrass Children’s Day (Saturday 23 March 2019) and Rachel Bower (Chaired by Dr Naomi Booth) Thursday 21 March 2019 @ 7pm Children's Creative Writing Competition Workshops York St John University, Temple Hall Free Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 10am - 3pm A reading and discussion with brilliant new writers who represent The Mount School Free the maternal experience with dazzling insight, honesty and Calling all young writers and poets! The Mount is host a creative writing workshop and a poetry artistry. Liz Berry’s award-winning The Republic of Motherhood sees workshop for under 18s who are interested in honing their creative literary skills. The Creative the maternal through its darkest hours to its brightest days. Jessie Writing workshop is from 10am to 11.30am, and the Poetry Workshop, which is from 12.00pm to Greengrass' book Sight, shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, weaves together philosophy, 1.30pm, will be run by Say Owt Slam's Henry Raby. Whether you are bringing in your completed science and subjectivity to produce a work of extraordinary intimacy. Rachel Bower’s Moon Milk works, works in progress, or even a clean slate, these free workshops will be useful for any young takes an unflinching look at the joys and challenges of pregnancy, birth and early childhood. creative minds. Sci-Fi Panel York St John Lecturers' Story Time for Children Thursday 21 March 2019 @ 8pm Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 11am York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room Free York Explore Library and Archive Free Stairwell Books has a growing reputation as a publisher of science fiction and fantasy. Pauline Kirk, Join us for this unique event where lecturers from York St John’s Susie Williamson, Clint Wastling and William Thirsk-Gaskell will be reading excerpts from their work programmes in Literature and Creative Writing read their pre-school and answering questions posed by the audience. There will also be an open mic with a limited picture-book favourites from the likes of Julia Donaldson, Kes Gray, number of 5 minute slots for writers who’d like to take part. (Sign up on the night). Donations to Dr Seuss, and Nadia Shireen. Suitable for children 0-6. SASH youth homeless charity working in York would be welcome. Storytelling and Drama with Hoglets - Babies (Birth to Read Regional and New Writing North Showcase Walking) Friday 22 March 2019 @ 6pm Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 1pm York St John University, De Grey Theatre Free York Explore Library and Archive £5.00 New Writing North supports writing and reading in the North of England as well as commissioning Hoglets classes bring imaginations to life, turning stories into new work. The Read Regional campaign aims to connect authors from the North to local readers. adventures. We take drama and performance skills and mix them This showcase will feature readings from some of the most exciting writers in our region. Andrew with some games, craft and songs. Michael Hurley (award winning author of The Loney) will read from his new novel, Devil's Day. Jude Brown (Northern Writers’ Award recipient) will read from her new work. John Challis (his poems appear on BBC Radio 4 and anthologies) will read from his first pamphlet of poetry, The Black Cab. Storytelling and Drama with Hoglets - Toddlers (Walking +) Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 1.45pm Flash Fiction Workshop York Explore Library and Archive £5.00 Friday 22 March 2019 @ 7pm - 8.30pm Hoglets classes bring imaginations to life, turning stories into adventures. We take drama and York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room £5.00 performance skills and mix them with some games, craft and songs. A workshop for writers at all levels. This session will introduce the idea of ‘what makes a story’, briefly looking at storytelling through screenwriting and then introduce you to flash fiction, as a Bears, Badges and Buns with Martin Watts way of practising and honing your craft. This is a light session, with an aim to get you inspired. Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 2.45pm York Explore Library and Archive £2.00 Old Herbaceous Join Martin Watts as he reads The Bear in the Library and The Bear Friday 22 March 2019 @ 7.45pm and the Beetle. Everyone will get to make a badge featuring a bear York Theatre Royal, Studio £13.00 / £8.00 students and will get to eat buns and talk about the story. Under 2's are free to attend. Sown with seeds of gardening wisdom, this charming one man show is a love story – a humorous portrayal of a single-minded yet gentle man with a passion for plants. A PMac production, by Reginald Arkell, adapted by Alfred Shaughnessy. 12 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 13
Big History Weekend (Friday 22 to Sunday 24 2019) Kate Mosse, The Burning Chambers Friday 22 March 2019 @ 7pm Big History Weekend All Day Ticket St Peter's School £10.00 Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 10am - 6pm Bringing 16th century France vividly to life, The Kings Manor £35.00 Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love and Join us for a whole weekend of historical themed author readings, betrayal, mysteries and secrets. Author of six debates and panel events (supported by the Historical Writers' novels and short story collections, including the Association). Each event is individually priced. You can also purchase an multi-million selling Languedoc Trilogy, Kate is a All Day Ticket for the five daytime events on 23 March for only £35. champion of women's creativity and has an OBE for services to literature and women. Join Kate as she discusses exploring romance and mystery in Romans with Douglas Jackson medieval France. Photo: Ruth Crafer Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 10am Kings Manor £8.00 Kate Williams, Rival Queens York has strong links with the Roman world, having been founded as Eboracum by the Romans in 71 Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 7pm AD. Join author Douglas Jackson (Hammer of Rome) to discuss this fascinating time in our history. St Peter's School £10.00 Bestselling author and broadcaster Kate Vikings with Dr Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough Williams’ Rival Queens offers an electrifying new Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 11.30am perspective on Elizabeth and Mary, and the Kings Manor £8.00 most important relationship of their lives – that From raiders and traders to settlers to rulers, the Norse played a unique role in the medieval world. which they had with one another. Rival Queens Using York as a starting point, Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough explores the Viking Age. Featuring a explores the lives of these two incredible women poet with a terminal case of writer's block, seriously good hair, and a huge fossilised poo. of power in a man's world, laying bare both their friendship and the struggle that would end in York Minster with Sarah Brown & Dr Stuart Harrison Mary's betrayal. Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 2pm Kings Manor £8.00 History Themed Walk Through York The art and architecture of York Minster has often been the subject of great interest. Please join Sunday 24 March 2019 @ 11am Sarah Brown (Director, York Glaziers Trust) and Dr Stuart Harrison (co-author of a major study of Entrance to Yorkshire Museum Gardens (Lendal) £8.00 certain Minster buildings) as they discuss this medieval master-piece. Join Blue Badge Guide for Yorkshire David Holt on a history themed tour of York. David has an outstanding knowledge of York and Yorkshire as well Richard III with Matt Lewis & Dr Michael Jones as having taught History for almost 30 years. Please book by contacting Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 3.30pm David on 07803 605037 or greatyorkshiretours@gmail.com Kings Manor £8.00 It is one of Britain's great mysteries - is Richard III a murderer? Join authors Matt Lewis (The Survival Tessa Dunlop, The Century Girls of the Princes in the Tower) & Dr Michael Jones (The King's Grave: The Search for Richard III) in this lively Sunday 24 March 2019 @ 2pm debate, which will be chaired by Imogen Robertson (Chair, Historical Writers' Association). St Peter's School £10.00 In 2018, Britain celebrated the centenary of some women getting The Victorians and the Dawn of Railway Romance with Andrew Martin the vote. The Century Girls features six women born in 1918 or Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 5pm before who haven’t just witnessed the change of the intervening ten decades, they’ve lived it. Empire shrank, war came and went, Kings Manor £8.00 and modern society demanded continual readjustment.... the Andrew Martin will explain how railways ceased to be disliked as bringers of soulless uniformity to Century Girls lasted the course, and this book weaves together being regarded with affection - a journey from Dombey and Son to The Railway Children. He will also their lifetime’s adventures. refer to the railways in his own books, including his recent novel, The Martian Girl: A London Mystery. 14 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 15
Hiding in Plain Sight York Literature Festival Bookstall Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 1pm (The Convent is open from 9am) Sunday 24 March 2019 @ 12pm - 3pm Bar Convent Free York Explore Library and Archive Free The Bar Convent has been hiding in plain sight on Blossom Street in York since 1686. Come to the Local publishers and authors offer their novels, collections, children's books and non-fiction for convent to see the history of hidden identities and to hear readings from York St John University's purchase by the public. Come along and see the selection. The York Literature Festival Bookstall is Creative Writing students that respond to the convent archives, considering what it means to have open to all. identities that might still need to hide in plain sight. You can also visit the Bar Convent Exhibition and discover the hidden chapel, which is celebrating its 250th anniversary. Satire & the Future: Can The Satirists Still Save Us? Monday 25 March 2019 @ 6pm Alan Johnson, In My Life: A Music Memoir York Explore Library and Archive £6.00 Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 3pm In this era of apocalyptic headlines and doom-laden news reports, St Peter's School £10.00 it has become increasingly commonplace to despair that satire has In My Life: A Music Memoir vividly transports us died. Join Drs Adam Smith and Jo Waugh, directors of the ongoing to a world that is no longer with us - a world ‘Satire: Births, Deaths, Legacies’ project, as they discuss the claim of Dansettes and jukeboxes, of heartfelt love of the death of satire and put it into historical context, revealing that satire has “died” many times songs and heart-broken ballads, of smoky coffee before. So can the satirist still save us after all? shops and dingy dance halls. From Bob Dylan to David Bowie, from Lonnie Donegan to Bruce C.L. Spillard, The Price of Time Springsteen, all of Alan’s favourites are here. As Monday 25 March 2019 @ 7.30pm are, of course, his beloved Beatles, whom he has Briar House £3.50 (£5.00 on the door) worshipped with undying admiration since 1963. Former mad scientist C.L. Spillard poses the question: What sort of twisted mind would infiltrate humanity’s higher echelons and cause them, using a fiendishly simple mechanism we all take for granted, to direct our species on a headlong path to self-destruct? Hear how she survived the latest interrogation techniques, a reduction in core body temperature to 15°C, and experiments in a dark psychology lab, to find the answer! Writing the Ocean Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 7pm - 8.30pm What Days We're Having Now York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room £5.00 Monday 25 March 2019 @ 7.45pm A workshop with lots of fun, inspiring writing activities with an ocean theme. Run by experienced York Theatre Royal, Studio £13.00 / £8.00 students (and gentle!) tutors from The Writing Tree, it will be suitable for all abilities, including beginners. We will use the inspiration of our oceans to fuel writing in various forms and genres, and enjoy readings A live anthology of subtly theatricalised poems that are sweet, from the Writing Tree’s ‘Ocean’ anthology. sad and funny - touching on identity, uncertainty, the meaning of family and the nature of love. Presented by Jaybird Live Literature, performed by up and coming poets and new writers Alex Telling The Blues MacDonald, Ella Freers and Will Harris. Saturday 23 March 2019 @ 7.45pm York Theatre Royal, Studio £13.00 / £8.00 students Storyteller Jan Blake, and guitarist Matt Chandler, fuse grown-up fairytale, legend and song to tell the blues. This is a performance to raise the roof and bring the stars down to listen... Presented by the Crick Crack Club. 16 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 17
1788 And All That with Michael Crowley Jottings From The Queen of Sheba Tuesday 26 March 2019 @ 6pm Wednesday 27 March 2019 @ 6pm York Explore Library and Archive Free York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room Free Botany Bay 1788. A convict carries officers to the shore. The same Three thousand years ago the Queen of Sheba travelled with a huge retinue and wealthy gifts, to man is emancipated, and becomes the first settler to own land. listen to King Solomon’s wisdom. Today, Blazing Grannies' F.Mary Callan invites us to share wisdom Why? Hear Michael tell the story of James Ruse, the basis of his and stories those royals might have shared, in the Bible and the Qur’an, legacy for three faiths and novel The Stony Ground. the whole human race. A lively, informative, one-woman show. Literary Dinner with Jill Dawson, The Languge of Birds Beyond the Walls Student Showcase Tuesday 26 March 2019 @ 7pm Wednesday 27 March 2019 @ 8pm The Ivy St Helen's Square £40.00 York St John University, Students Union Free Come to the Ivy for a three-course literary dinner with Orange York Centre for Writing’s Beyond the Walls is an annual anthology and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author Jill Dawson. She will be celebrating York St John University’s Creative Writing students. The discussing her new novel, The Language of Birds, inspired by one of evening will feature readings and performances by students and the most sensational unsolved murder cases in British history, that special guests giving a taster of emerging contemporary fiction, of Lord Lucan in 1974. Please book through theivyyork.com poetry, and non-fiction from this year’s anthology. How to Get Published: Agents and Editors Panel Gaia Holmes and Francesca Bratton Tuesday 26 March 2019 @ 7pm Wednesday 27 March 2019 @ 8pm York St John University, Temple Hall Free York Theatre Royal, Keregan Room £3.00 Five top UK editors and agents discuss the world of publishing. Join poets Gaia Holmes and Francesca Bratton as they read from their works. Gaia has had three The panel includes Rachael Allen, Faber poet and poetry editor poetry collections published: Dr James Graham’s Celestial Bed (2006), Lifting The Piano With One at Granta magazine; Donald Winchester, literary agent for fiction Hand (2013) and Where The Road Runs Out (2018). Francesca has been shortlisted twice for the Jane and non-fiction at Watson, Little; David Headley, managing Martin prize and for the Oxonian Prize Review. It promises to be a wonderful evening of poetry. director of the DHH Literary Agency; Anna Kelly, commissioning editor at Fourth Estate, and Rob Kraitt, who represents Janet Dean Knight, The Peacemaker screenwriting talent at Casarotto Ramsey Associates. Come with Thursday 28 March 2019 @ 5.30pm your questions about the industry. Quaker Meeting House Free Orlando Publication Launch of The Peacemaker. York author Janet Dean Tuesday 26 March 2019 @ 7.45pm Knight launches her debut novel which examines the parallel York Theatre Royal, Studio £13.00 / £8.00 students lives of a mother and daughter. Set in 1938, as one war is about to follow another, Janet asks a question relevant then and now – do A magic-realist exploration of human identity – personal, sexual, we ever learn from the past? national – in performer Rebecca Vaughan and Yorkshire playwright Elton Townend-Jones’ radical, award-winning take on Virginia Woolf’s romp through British history. From Dyad Productions, the creators of Jane Eyre: An Autobiography and Austen’s Women. 18 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 19
Sally Nicholls, Things A Bright Girl Can Do Chris Mullin, Great Political Disasters I Thursday 28 March 2019 @ 6pm Have Known (And Some That I Didn't) The Mount School £5.00 Thursday 28 March 2019 @ 7pm Sally Nicholls’ first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones St Peter's School £10.00 Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian From the Poll Tax to Brexit, from Suez to Iraq, Children's Fiction Prize and the Costa Children's Book Award. author, journalist and former Labour minister Things a Bright Girl Can Do is set from 1914 to 1918 and centres on Chris Mullin discusses the great political three young women involved with the Suffragette movement and disasters of the last century and the unintended the effects of the Great War on their lives. consequences to which they gave rise. Iraq, for example, led among many other things, to Finding the Words the election of Jeremy Corbyn. He will also be Thursday 28 March 2019 @ 6.45pm discussing his new novel, The Friends of Harry Perkins. York Explore Library and Archive £3.00 This is a relaxed and welcoming poetry evening featuring established and emerging poets from Yorkshire and beyond. This event will showcase poets published by Sheffield based The Poetry Business, including Mike Barlow (National Poetry Competition winner), Jane Routh (Forward Prize finalist) and Warda Yassin (New Poets' Prize 2018 Photo © David Morris winner). Lost in a Sea of Glass & Tin Nuala Ellwood, Day of the Accident Thursday 28 March 2019 @ 7.45pm Thursday 28 March 2019 @ 7pm York Theatre Royal, Studio £13.00 / £8.00 students Waterstones £5.00 What does it mean to leave everything behind? Take off and live a Join Nuala Ellwood as she discusses her latest novel, Day of the life of solitude. Where can we go and what can we become? Accident. Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's A textual and visual performance by Gary Winters and Claire Hind. world is torn apart - she is told that her daughter drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river and her husband has disappeared. Wretched Strangers: Poetry & Migration Maggie remembers nothing. What really happened that day at the river? Friday 29 March 2019 @ 6pm Waterstones Free Blurb: On what is meant to be our last day in the EU, this event will celebrate the contribution of migrant poets in the UK, along with audience discussion of the challenges they face. Speakers will include Agnes Lehóckzy (University of Sheffield) and J.T. Welsch (University of York), co-editors of the anthology Wretched Strangers: Borders Movement Homes, published in 2018. 20 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 21
Where There's Muck There's Bras Competitions Friday 29 March 2019 @ 7.45pm York Theatre Royal, Studio £13.00 / £8.00 students York Literature Festival / York Literature Festival Children’s Performed by stand-up poet Kate Fox; this funny, gently subversive YorkMix Poetry Competition Creative Writing Competition performance/ lecture uncovers the hidden history of the writers, scientists, sportswomen, politicians, protestors, musicians and other heroines who represent the grit, determination and spirit of the North’s women. English Touring Opera’s Waxwings Saturday 30 March 2019 @ 11am York Theatre Royal, Studio £13.00 adults / £8.00 children Specially composed and performed for children aged 2-5 years and The York Literature Festival / YorkMix Poetry The 2019 York Literature Festival Creative young audiences with special educational needs, Waxwings is a Competition is back - and it's bigger than ever. Writing Competitions are now open for entries. highly interactive, multi-sensory opera, with live music and singing The top prize is £600, and an international prize This year’s theme is MOON / SPACE. to entertain young audiences and families. has been added. Schools and individual children are welcome to A magical show telling the story of a boy and a girl on their first day This year’s judge is Clare Shaw, identified by enter their original poems and short stories. The of school, who discover an injured waxwing and try to make it fly the prestigious Arvon Foundation as ‘one of the competitions are open to anyone aged 18 years again! country’s most dynamic young poets’. and under. There’s plenty of evidence for that judgement Age categories: Say Owt Scratch in Flood, her stunning third collection which • Under 11 years Sunday 31 March 2019 @ 1pm-3pm was published last year. The inspiration for the • 12-15 years York Explore Library and Archive Free collection came from the 2015 floods which hit Clare’s home town of Hebden Bridge. But it is • 16-18 years Since 2017, we’ve been hosting Scratches for people of any experience. Hosted by the loveable Say Owt team, in a friendly about so much more than just the deluge. Poems should not be longer than 28 lines and and constructive environment, come share a poem or two. Full entry details for the competition are short stories should not be longer than 1,500 Everyone offers helpful feedback, advice and support. Described published on YorkMix – www.yorkmix.com. It is words. by participants as ”wonderful, friendly, warm, detailed feedback!” open for entries now. Closing date for entries: Sunday 31 March 2019, Deadline noon. Entry is free. Poetry Competition 24 February 2019. First prize is £600, with a The competition is judged by a panel of Sunday 31 March 2019 @ 7.30pm runner-up prize of £150, third prize of £75, and adjudicators, whose collective decision is City Cruises, King's Staith £10.00 a fourth prize award of £50. The Helen Cadbury final. There are prizes given for 1st, 2nd and This year’s competition winners will be announced at an awards Prize of £50 – formerly The York Prize – will be 3rd placed entries unless the judges decide evening aboard the River Prince. A limited number of tickets will be awarded to an excellent poem from an entrant otherwise. Shortlisted authors and poets are made available to the public for this event, which will feature all the with a York postcode. A £100 award will go to invited to read their work at a special prize- winning and commended poems, plus a reading from the judge, the best poem from a non-UK entrant. giving event at The Mount on Saturday 4 May. Clare Shaw – and a fabulous cruise on the River Ouse! To buy tickets, Online submissions via YorkMix - www.yorkmix. For further details contact: please go to citycruisesyork.com com - only. mountschoolyork.co.uk Entry fee yorkliteraturefestival@mountschoolyork.co.uk £7.50 for a single poem; £12 for two; £15 for three; £20 for four; £22.50 for five. There is no limit to the number of poems that can be submitted. 22 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 23
Festival Team Partners & Sponsors Festival Director : Susanna Cooper St Peter’s School Programme : Ben Fuller Chairman : Nick David The Mount School Programme and Children’s Treasurer : Jeff Todd Creative Writing Competition : Vanessa Charters Secretary : Christine Hogan York St John University Programme : Professor Abi Curtis and Dr Naomi Booth Volunteer Co-ordinator and Social Media Manager : Sally O’Connor York Theatre Royal Programme : Juliet Forster Festival Board : Lizzi Linklater, Rob O’Connor Poetry Competition : Dave Nicholson and Angela Ranson Poetry Competition Judge : Clare Shaw Programming Support : Edwin Thomas, Antony Brochure Design and Website : Richard Dunn and Frances Postlethwaite McDougall Explore York Programme : Wendy Kent Marketing Support : Erica Town and Julian Hird Thanks Our thanks go to the following organisations and individuals for their help and support : Baillie Gifford : Michelle McLeod Historical Writers’ Association : Imogen Robertson Little Apple Bookshop : Philippa Morris and Tim Curtis Make It York/Visit York : Steve Brown, Faye Rhodes and Paul Whiting Say Owt Slam : Henry Raby St Peter’s School : Sara Burns, Ali Fuller, Katherine Pomfret, Jeremy Walker, Peter Livesey, Steve Howarth, Darren Adamson and Keith Stimpson York Explore Library and Archive : Gillian Holmes YorkMix : Chris Titley, Richard McDougall and David Nicholson York St John University : Hannah Bernstein, Suzanne Dickinson, Louise Gash and Stuart Page York Theatre Royal : Rodolfo Barradas, Rachel Naylor and Michael Slavin Waterstones : Kirstie Lount and the bookseller team We must also thank those agents, publishers, contributors and artists who have supported this year’s festival. A special thanks goes to all our festival volunteers who share their time and enthusiasm in order to make this festival happen. And last, but not least, thanks to you, our audience. You are the reason we continue! 24 BOOK ONLINE » www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Follow us on @YorkLitFest for the latest news 25
The York Centre for Writing is a hub for creative writing activities at York St John University and beyond. It is a home to the established undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Creative Writing located in the School of Humanities, Religion & Philosophy at York St John University. Come and be inspired by our team of published writers and a range of visiting authors, editors and publishers. PROGRAMMES OF STUDY: • BA CREATIVE WRITING • BA CREATIVE WRITING JOINT HONOURS • MA CREATIVE WRITING • MFA CREATIVE WRITING • PhD CREATIVE WRITING For more information contact: centreforwriting@yorksj.ac.uk
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