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Major authors and multi-arts events, comedy and creative writing, performance poetry and a Free Family Day – whatever you enjoy, you’ll find it here at the Huddersfield Literature Festival.
Our award-winning Festival takes place over 10 days in venues across Huddersfield, with community, accessibility and inclusivity at its heart.
We welcome performers and audiences from all sectors of society and many events are free or low-cost. There are events with live subtitling by Stagetext for those who are deaf, deafened and hard of hearing, and DisabledGo Access Guides to key venues.
Meet your favourite authors, discover new talent, hone your own skills or simply come along and enjoy the entertainment on offer.
Kate Fox, 2 August – free VIP tickets
Our first ever event at the Huddersfield Food & Drink Festival is a free performance by stand-up, poet and comedian Kate Fox on Thursday 2 August. VIP tickets available for those signed up to our mailing list, giving you access to reserved seating and a drinks...
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PRESENTING HUDDERSFIELD FESTIVAL 2018…
A Taster of some of the events we have on offer. For a full listing click on our events tab or click here
I'm really happy with the new re-print of 'Staring Directly at the Eclipse'. Flapjack Press have formatted the book along the lines of my other collections with them, being 'Raining Upwards' and 'Travelling Second Class Through Hope'. It now looks beautiful. It's available to pre-order from Flapjack Press- out 31st July. Please share.
Last night the wonderful Rebecca Winwood once again compered Huddersfield SOUP. She also bribed the audience with bowls of Jelly Babies so that they would listen to a 60 second ad for a project she is working on for her day-job at the Lawrence Batley Theatre.
Rebecca's project is an innvotive interactive exhibition called In The Family Way. The programme will tell the stories of the Theatre buildings' previous life as a Women's Home which provided refuge for young, unwed, pregnant women who had been cast out by their families.
Rebecca is now seeking participants - young women and men aged 16 - 25 who would like to share the true untold stories of these women with an audience. If you or someone you know would like to register interest in taking part, contact Rebecca Winwood at rebecca@thelbt.org
Stav Sherez wins crime novel of the year for 'moving the genre forward'
theguardian.com
The Intrusions, in which the case of an abduction reveals online terrors, takes the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier prizeindependent.co.uk
Nelson Mandela left a rich archive of letters documenting his time behind bars. The letters, many never seen before, express anger, self-control and his love for his family and countryOnly 1% of children's books have BAME main characters – UK study
theguardian.com
Research finds that of 9,115 titles published last year, only 4% featured BAME charactersOUR AWARDS
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