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2008 Festival Tickets now on sale
Tickets for this year's Festival are now on sale.
You can buy your tickets online by going to 'What's On and 'Tickets' on the sidebar.
Sold Out
Cherie Blair
Sheila Hancock
Chris Patten
Hardeep Singh Kohli
Kate Adie
Please note- Lousie Rennison's event is for age 12-16
More tickets for Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer and for Simon Hoggart, and 'The Call of the Loon Bird' now available on line
2008 Headliners
This year's headline events include:
Cherie Blair in conversation with Francine Stock
Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer
Kate Adie
Chris Patten
Jenni Murray
Rick Wakeman
Michael Morpurgo
Will Self
Susan Greenfield
Sheila Hancock
Simon Hoggart
Jenny Eclair and Judith Holder
Gerald Scarfe
Katharine Whitehorn
Ian McMillan
Simon Armitage - gigging live with his band The Scaremongers
Misha Glenny
Jeremy Isaacs
Corin Redgrave and Kika Markham
Novelists Louis de Bernieres, Kate Atkinson, Lionel Shriver, Gillian Slovo, Justine Picardie, David Guterson, Howard Jacobson, Mavis Cheek and Adam Mars-Jones...
For children and young people
Louise Rennison
Darren Shan
Anne Fine
Katharine Holabird
John Cunliffe
The most exciting contemporary British Asian writing with Daljit Nagra, Nadeem Aslam, Mohammed Hanif, Shamshad Khan, M Y Alam, Yasmin Hai and Sathnam Sangeera
Decibel Award winning writer and director Madani Younis will premiere the first ever production from his new company Freedom Studios; Happy and Married?
Professor Steve Jones, eminent geneticist and presenter of TV series 'In the Blood'
Poets
Lemn Sissay, Don Paterson, Patience Agbabi, Jean Sprackland, Noshi Gilani
Travel writer Carol Drinkwater
Comedian and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli
Master storyteller, Hugh Lupton and musician Chris Wood exploring the life of John Clare
Plus more than 130 other events from readings to discussion, masterclasses, workshops, performances, literary walks and events for children and young people
Our Headline Sponsors
Ilkley Literature Festival is delighted that Skipton Building Society are 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.'
Matthew Cox
Skipton Building Society's Corporate Communications Manager
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Festival Updates
Dates for Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer
Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer's event will take place on Sun 5th October at 7.30pm in the Kings Hall (Event 178)
Second 'Ilkley at the time of Charlotte Bronte' walk
We have added a repeat of this popular walk on Sunday 5th Oct at 2pm. (Event 179)
Justine Picardie - change of date and time
Justine Picardie's Event (No.32) will now take place on Saturday 4th Oct. at 6.30pm at Ilkley Playhouse
Stephen May, Ross Raisin and Camilla Hornby
Change of venue - this event (No 17) will now take place at The Crescent Hotel. Date and tme remain the same
2008 Poet in Residence
Shamshad Khan is this year's Festival Poet in Residence. Go to Poet in Residence on the sidebar for more about Shamshad.
Schools' Events Programme
The Michael Morpurgo event for schools on Monday 6th October has now SOLD OUT.
There are still places available for school parties at two other special secondary schools' events with leading young people's authors:
Beverley Naidoo and Olusola Oyeleye
Thursday 9th October 1.30pm at Prince Henry's Grammar School, Otley
Tickets £3 per student plus one free staff ploace for every 10 pupils
Catherine McPhail
Thursday 16th October 2pm at Ilkley Grammar School, Ilkley
Tickets £3 per student plus one free staff ploace for every 10 pupils
For schools' tickets contact us on 01943 601210
2008 Poetry and Short Story Competition
Entries for the 2008 ILF Short Story and Poetry Competion are now invited. The competition closes on 1st September 2008 and winners have the chance to read at the Festival.
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Go to 'Competitions' on the sidebar for full details of how to enter and to see the results of the 2007 Short Story and Poetry competition
2008 Fringe Events
This year's wild and wacky fringe events will include a demonstration of swimhiking in the River Wharfe and Bells a cameo version of Eddie Lawler's new musical about the Bronters performed by local young people.
Interpreted Events
Each year selected events, including our opening events, our Reader's Afternoon and our cabaret evening, are sign language interpreted.
If you are a BSL user, contact us and let us know which kind of events you would like interpreted.
2008 Festival Volunteers
Many thanks to everyone who has volunteered to help at this year's Festival. We have had an overwhelming response, with a record number of new volunteers and volunteer opportunites for 2008 are now closed.
Festival Podcasts
Missed the event you had hoped to see last year? Or maybe you'd just like to hear more? We've collaborated with Yorkshire Post online to create a series of Festival podcasts
They'll be new podcasts of this year's events in October.
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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
2007 Festival Podcats
Choose from:
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