Pre-Festival Event: Poetry For All
Open Access Poetry event brings the joy of poetry and the spoken word to all. This event has been specially…
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March 2019
Festival Launch: with Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
Join us to launch the 2019 York Literature Festival with Daisy Johnson, the youngest writer ever to be shortlisted for…
Writing Poetry for Children
Carole Bromley, judge of the new YorkMix Writing Poetry for Children prize and author of the children’s poetry collection Blast…
Terra Two Anthology Launch with special guest Temi Oh
Terra Two: An Ark for Survival is a York St John University project with the key aim to help shape…
Speculative Fiction Day – All Day Ticket
Join us for a whole day focused on the theme of Speculative Worlds with a selection of author readings, lectures…
Flood Fictions
In this lecture, Dr Caroline Edwards will discuss the utopian and apocalyptic implications of a growing number of 21st century…
In Conversation with Tade Thompson
Tade Thompson is the author of Rosewater, a novel set in Africa in 2066, in the aftermath of a global…
In Conversation with Sophie Mackintosh
Sophie Mackintosh is a Welsh writer living in London. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times and…
Two Jorvik Poets
An evening of Anglo-Nordic poetry with two York-based poets, Rahul Gupta and Daniel Gustafsson. Both poets draw much inspiration from…
Liz Lochhead & Steve Kettley, Somethings Old, Somethings New
From the bittersweet to the rude and raunchy, poet and playwrite Liz Lochhead, weaves a spellbinding and beguiling show, mixing…