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Ilkley Literature Festival with Skipton Building Society
Ilkley Literature Festival - the North's liveliest and most prestigious Literature Festival / 180 events over seventeen days / Authors' events, Discussions, Readings, Performances, Workshops, Reader's Events, Literary Walks, Poetry, Festival Fringe, Children's and Young People's Weekend.....
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The 2010 Festival 1-17 October
The 2009 Festival is now over. A huge succes it saw over 20,000 ticket holders enjoying some 190 events.
Contact us to join the mailing list and receive your free programme for 2010 in August next year.
For a taste of what you missed, download the 2009 Festival Programme here.
2009 headline events included :
Alan Bennett
Joan Bakewell
Alan Titchmarsh
Jo Brand
James Cracknell
Baroness Lola Young
Frank Gardner
Vic Reeves
Simon Beaufoy
James Martin
Paddy Ashdown
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Michael Mansfield QC
Melvyn Bragg
Stuart Maconie
Michael Frayn
Novelists David Peace, A L Kennedy, Sarah Dunant, Tracy Chevalier and Salley Vickers
Poets Roger McGough, John Hegley, Moniza Alvi, Peter Porter and Vicki Feaver
Children's and young people's authors David Almond, Philip Ardagh, Derek Landy, Grace Dent, Melvin Burgess, Kjartan Poskitt and Trish Cooke...
Plus over 160 others events - from household names, to readings, discussions, masterclasses, workshops, performances, literary walks and events for children and young people.
Festival Friends Membership is currently closed. Go to our Friends page for all the details
Our Headline Sponsors
Ilkley Literature Festival is delighted that Skipton Building Society were once again the Festival's headline sponsors.
'Ilkley Literature Festival is a perfect fit for us. Events which matter to our members matter to us. We are lucky to have such a prestigious national event on our doorstep and Skipton Building Society is in a strong position to help the Festival grow and reach ever wider audiences.'
Cara Taylor
Sponsorship Consultant
Skipton Building Society
2009 Festival Volunteers
Many thanks to our 92 volunteer stewards for all their hard work during this year's Festival. Aged from 16 to 80 plus, our stewards make a huge difference to the smooth running of events.
Go to our Volunteers page for further information.
Young People
If you are aged 12-18 don't miss our next Cool Voices club night in February 2010 which will feature local young bands, poets and comedians.
During this year's Festival young people aged 12-18 enjoyed a mini WordsFest with packed workshops where they tried grafitti; writing for gaming; writing about fashion; writing a novel and creating a rap. The afternoon ended with a hotly fought poetry and every-other-kind-of-writing slam and will definitely be back next year.
If you enjoy writing, go to our young people's page for info about what's on for young writers aged 12-18.
The Festival on Youtube...
Young people who take part in our Cool Voices club nights and various fringe groups have put records of their events on Youtube. Go to http://www.youtube.com/ and search Ilkley Literature Festival to see the results.
Interpreted Events
A number of events at each year's Festival are sign language interpreted for BSL users in our audience:
If you are a BSL user, contact us and let us know which kind of events you would like interpreted in 2010 - and please tell any BSL using friends.
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Hearts Club Night for teenagers
Don't miss our popular Hearts Club Night event for young people aged 12-16
on Friday 12th January 7.30-10pm
at Otley Courthouse Arts Centre,
Otley LS21 3AN.
This special night for teenagers features seven young bands - all aged 14-17 - performing work they have written themselves, plus young comedians and a juice bar.
New Young Writers Group
From Monday 22nd February for six weeks until 29th March we will be running a group for young writers aged 13-17 every Monday evening from 6.30-8.30pm at Otley Courthouse Arts Centre..
This is a free pilot project and anyone wanting to take part just needs to ring us on 01943 462826 to reserve a place.
If the project's successful we're hoping to run a ongoing young writers group from April.
2010 Poetry and Short Story Competitions
The 2010 competitions will open on April 1st. Go to the Competitions page for full details of the 2009 winners and how to enter all the competitions.
2010 Fringe
From April 1st you can make a submission to take part in the 2010 Fringe. The Fringe is open to anyone based in or with strong connections to Yorkshire and the surrounding area. Go to the Fringe page for details of all the 2009 events from wordjams to cinnamon biscuits and cabaret...
2009 Festival Podcasts
Missed the event you wanted to see?
Facing those empty post-Festival evenings with dread ? Or maybe you'd just like to hear more. We've collaborated with Yorkshire Post online to create a series of Festival podcasts
You can:
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Listen now
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Download to your ipod
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Download to your computer to hear later
Festival Poet in Residence 2009
Debjani Chatterjee was the Festival's 2009 poet-in-residence. One of Britain's best Asian poets, she is 'a poet full of wit and charm' (Andrew Motion) whose many books include Namaskar: New & Selected Poems and Words Spit & Splinter.
A tireless workshop leader with schools, community groups and adults, Debjani's honours include an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University and an MBE for services to Literature.
Her work at the Festival included workshops with local primary and secondary schools; the Manor House Museum; a local carer's group; local residential centres for older people and in two local cafes. There were early morning' Wake up to Poetry' sessions; a very succesful 'Rhyme and Dine' evening at Panache restaurant; drop in workshops and readings at Ilkley's Specsavers branch on national poetry day and a variety of workshops for writers including a transcultural workshop on the rubai and quatrain given with Simon Fletcher and Basir Kazmi.
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