Sponsors and Partners

Baillie Gifford has supported the festival for the past four years as headline sponsor. The firm is also a major sponsor of other literary events across the UK including the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

More details of their sponsorship programme, including interviews with authors, articles and competitions, can be found at www.bailliegifford.com/sponsorship.

The Festival’s other Sponsors & Partners for its 2019 festival were as follows:

• York St John University
• St Peter’s School
• York Theatre Royal
• Explore York Libraries & Archives
• Visit York
• YorkMix
• The Ivy St Helen’s Square
• Make It York
• The Mount School
• Little Apple Bookshop
• City Cruises York
• CinemArts
• Say Owt
• Wilberforce Trust
• Waterstones York