Ilkley Literature Festival

  • Readings, cake and an array of talent at Ikley Literature Festival Fringe

    Runcible Spoon reading with cake I will be doing my first guest spot for a while on Tuesday 13th September alongside Chaucer Cameron and Kathleen Jones at Runcible Spoon Open Mic at The Carriers Arms in one of my favourite old haunts, Morley. This has an early evening start of 6 pm. You can sign…

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  • Words Hanging off Trees

    If it was possible to encapsulate ten years’ work, to show how two groups of young writers and their writing developed over a decade, then this anthology, released by Ilkley Literature Festival to celebrate young writers in Ilkley and Bradford, would be that encapsulation. It has been one of the finest privileges of my working…

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  • Opportunity for young writers to participate in online writing session/s with me and the Ilkley Literature Festival next week

    Workshop 1) Let’s rip up the rulebook and start again by creating fantastical and realistic future settings for our future selves and by using creativity to discover how we can all be forces for change. Workshop 2) Make artworks come to life and write pieces that move the reader.

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  • Open workshops, performances with music, talks and publications

    It is probably tautological to say that the life of a writer is punctuated by joys and disappointments. This summer there have been plenty of both – as you will judge from the length of this blog. There have been more rejections by publishers and a project I’ve poured a lot of love and passion…

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