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Ilkley Literature Festival with Skipton Building Society
Ilkley Literature Festival - the North's liveliest and most prestigious Literature Festival / 170 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 2008 Festival is now over!
The 2009 Festival will take place from Friday 2nd October-Sunday 18th October 2009.
Tickets will go on sale on Tuesday 25th August at 9am.
2008 headline events included:
Cherie Blair in conversation with Francine Stock
Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer
Kate Adie
Chris Patten
Jenni Murray
Rick Wakeman
Michael Morpurgo
Will Self
Steve Jones
Susan Greenfield
Sheila Hancock
Simon Hoggart
Jenny Eclair and Judith Holder
Hardeep Singh Kohli
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...
Poets Lemn Sissay, Don Paterson, Patience Agbabi, Jean Sprackland..
For children and young people
Louise Rennison
Darren Shan
Anne Fine
Katharine Holabird
John Cunliffe
Bevrely Naidoo
The most exciting contemporary British Asian writing with Daljit Nagra, Nadeem Aslam, Mohammed Hanif, Shamshad Khan, M Y Alam, Yasmin Hai and Sathnam Sanghera
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.'
Cara Taylor
Sponsorship Consultant
Skipton Building Society
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2008 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
Poet in Residence
Shamshad Khan was this year's Festival Poet in Residence. Go to Poet in Residence on the sidebar for more about Shamshad.
2008 Poetry and Short Story Competition
Go to the Competitions page for the full results of this year's competitions.
The poetry prize went to Kathy Miles from Wales
The short story prize was awarded to Sarah Shaw from Newcastle
The 2008 Open Mic Award was won by Tim Steel
The Festival on Youtube...
Enterprising young people who took part in our Cool Voices club night and the Subterranean Home Sick Blues fringe group have put records of their event on Youtube. Go to www.youtube.com and search Ilkley Literature Festival to see the results.
2008 Fringe Events
This year's fringe events included the UK's finest young poets (aged from 16 -25) in an event staged by Cadaverine- the young poets' magazine; a demonstration of swimhiking in the River Wharfe; Bells a cameo version of Eddie Lawler's new musical about the Brontes performed by local young people and a compelling evening of monologues by asylum seekers.
Young People
If you are aged 12-18 go to our young people's page for info about what's on for young writers.
Schools' Events Programme
This year's schools programme involved pupils from more than twenty five primary and secondary schools in a variety of workshops and special events.
If your school would like to be involved in the 2009 Festival please contact us on 01943 601210 or click on Contact Us on the side bar.
Interpreted Events
This year the following events were sign language interpreted:
Sheila Hancock
Jenni Murray
Ian McMillan
Lionel Shriver
Kate Atkinson
If you are a BSL user, contact us and let us know which kind of events you would like interpreted in 2009.
2008 Festival Volunteers
Many thanks to the ninety two volunteer stewards who helped at this year's Festival. Aged from 16 to 80 plus, our stewards make a huge difference to the smooth running of events. 2009 recuritment will
open in March.
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