Launch of WITCH by Rebecca Tamás
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March 2019
How To Channel Your Literature Degree into Genre Screenwriting
Writer and Director Miles Watts has created imaginative cinematic worlds over the past two decades. Beginning with no/low budget films made from…
Stronger. Braver. Wiser. With Jennifer Potter
Jennifer Potter might never have said anything. But after seeing the progress made by the #MeToo movement, she knew she…
Kim McCabe, From Daughter to Woman
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Writing the Maternal with Liz Berry, Jessie Greengrass and Rachel Bower
(Chaired by Dr Naomi Booth) A reading and discussion with brilliant new writers who re-present the maternal experience with dazzling…
The Full Bronte
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Diane Setterfield, Once Upon A River
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Sci-Fi Panel
Stairwell Books has a growing reputation as a publisher of science fiction and fantasy. Pauline Kirk, Susie Williamson, Clint Wastling…
Read Regional and New Writing North Showcase
(Chaired by Naomi Booth) This showcase event will include readings of new work from some of the most exciting writers…
Kate Mosse, The Burning Chambers
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Flash Fiction Workshop
* This event is Sold Out * A workshop for writers at all levels. This session will introduce the idea…
Old Herbaceous
£13.00 / £8.00 students Sown with seeds of gardening wisdom, this charming one man show is a love story –…
Romans with Douglas Jackson
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All Day Ticket (Big History Weekend)
* The All Day Ticket is Sold Out * Join us for a whole day focused on the theme of…
Children’s Creative Writing Competition Workshops
Calling all young writers and poets! The Mount is host to a creative writing workshop and a poetry workshop for…
York St John Lecturers’ Story Time for Children
Join us for this unique event where lecturers from York St John’s programmes in Literature and Creative Writing read their…
Vikings with Dr Eleanor Barraclough
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Hiding in Plain Sight
(the Convent is open from 9am) The Bar Convent has been hiding in plain sight on Blossom St. in York…
Storytelling & Drama with Hoglets – Babies (Birth to Walking)
Hoglets classes bring imaginations to life, turning stories into adventures. We take drama and performance skills, and mix them with…
York Minster with Sarah Brown & Dr Stuart Harrison
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Storytelling & Drama with Hoglets – Toddlers (Walking +)
Hoglets classes bring imaginations to life, turning stories into adventures. We take drama and performance skills, and mix them with…
Alan Johnson, In My Life: A Music Memoir
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Bears, Badges and Buns with Martin Watts
Join Martin Watts as he reads The Bear in the Library and The Bear and the Beetle. Everyone will get…
Richard III with Matt Lewis & Dr Michael Jones
* This event is Sold Out * It is one of Britain's great mysteries - is Richard III a murderer?…
The Victorians and the Dawn of Railway Romance with Andrew Martin
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Kate Williams, Rival Queens
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Writing the Ocean
A workshop with lots of fun, inspiring writing activities with an ocean theme. Run by experienced (and gentle!) tutors from…
Telling The Blues
£13.00 / £8.00 students Storyteller Jan Blake, and guitarist Matt Chandler, fuse grown-up fairytale, legend and song to tell the…
History Themed Walk Through York
Join Blue Badge Guide for Yorkshire David Holt on a history themed tour of York. David has an outstanding knowledge…
York Literature Festival Bookstall
Local publishers and authors offer their novels, collections, children's books and non-fiction for purchase by the public. Come along and…
Tessa Dunlop, The Century Girls
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Satire & the Future: Can The Satirists Still Save Us?
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C.L. Spillard, The Price of Time
Ticket Price: £3.50 (£5.00 on the door) Former mad scientist C.L. Spillard poses the question: What sort of twisted mind…
What Days We’re Having Now
Ticket Price: £13.00 / £8.00 students A live anthology of subtly theatricalised poems that are sweet, sad and funny -…
1788 And All That with Michael Crowley
Botany Bay 1788. A convict carries officers to the shore. The same man is emancipated, and becomes the first settler…
How to Get Published: Agents and Editors Panel
* This event is Sold Out * Five top UK editors and agents discuss the world of publishing. The panel…
Literary Dinner with Jill Dawson, The Language of Birds
Come to the Ivy for a 3-course literary dinner with Orange and Whitbread Prize shortlisted author Jill Dawson. She will…
Orlando
* This event is Sold Out * Ticket Price: £13.00 / £8.00 students A magic-realist exploration of human identity –…
Words, Women & War: Forgotten Female Voices of The Great War
Hear the stories of four Yorkshire women’s contributions to The Great War. - Meet Bradford-born Alberta, VAD, poet, friend of…
Jottings From The Queen of Sheba
Three thousand years ago the Queen of Sheba travelled with a huge retinue and wealthy gifts, to listen to King…
Beyond the Walls Student Showcase
York Centre for Writing’s Beyond the Walls is an annual anthology celebrating York St John University’s Creative Writing students. The…
Francesca Bratton & Suzannah V. Evans
Join poets Francesca Bratton and Suzannah V. Evans as they read from their works. Please see below for more information…
Janet Dean Knight, The Peacemaker
Publication Launch of The Peacemaker. York author Janet Dean Knight launches her debut novel which examines the parallel lives of…
Sally Nicholls, Things A Bright Girl Can Do
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Finding the Words
Finding the Words is a relaxed and welcoming monthly poetry evening featuring established and emerging poets from Yorkshire and beyond.…
Chris Mullin, Great Political Disasters I Have Known (And Some That I Didn’t)
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Nuala Ellwood, Day of the Accident
Join Nuala Ellwood as she discusses her latest novel, Day of the Accident. Sixty seconds after she wakes from a…
Lost in a Sea of Glass & Tin
Ticket Price: £13.00 / £8.00 students What does it mean to leave everything behind? Take off and live a life…
Wretched Strangers: Poetry & Migration
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Where There’s Muck There’s Bras
* This event is Sold Out * Ticket Price: £13.00 / £8.00 students Performed by stand-up poet Kate Fox; this…
English Touring Opera’s Waxwings
Ticket Price: £13.00 adults / £8.00 children Specially composed and performed for children aged 2-5 years and young audiences with…
Mark Billlingham, The Killing Habit
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Say Owt Scratch
Since 2017, we’ve been hosting Scratches for people of any experience. Hosted by the lovable Say Owt team, in a…
Poetry Competition
This year’s competition winners will be announced at an awards evening aboard the River Prince. A limited number of tickets…
May 2019
In Conversation with Candace Robb & Chris Nickson
with Kate Lyall Grant (Severn House) Join York Centre for Writing and York Literature Festival for an evening with Candace…
September 2019
Peter Robinson: Many Rivers to Cross
Join international best-selling author Peter Robinson as he launches Many Rivers to Cross, the 26th instalment of the DCI Banks…
October 2019
The Moment That Gets You In SOLD OUT
“Everything ..depends on the quality of the moment; whatever kind of poem it is, it’s the moment that gets you…
Trump, Putin, China and Brexit : Geopolitics with Misha Glenny
How on earth did we get where we are? The chaos of Brexit. Trump. Runaway climate change. The Middle East…
David Suchet: Behind the Lens – My Life in Photos SOLD OUT
Throughout his spectacular career, David has never been without a camera, enabling him to vividly document his life in photographs.…
An Evening with Dan Jones
Dan Jones, the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Templars, tells the story of the Crusades, a thousand-year-old conflict which…