Welcome
After a busy and successful 2009, we are now working on the programme for
The 2010 Stratford upon Avon Literary Festival, which will take place between Sunday, 25th April and Monday 3rd May.
Our programme will be announced the week beginning 1 February 2010!
This year the Festival will have its home at Stratford-upon-Avon Civic Hall, as well as featuring events around town. Watch this space for details of events or follow us on Twitter
Stratford upon Avon 2010 highlights coming your way!
Top speakers, panel events, literary quiz, shot story competition, children's writing and drawing workshops, poetry readings, creative writing courses, photography exhibition and much much more...
See below for details of our specially commissioned novella!
The Stratford Literary Festival has commissioned a novella for 2010! Birmingham writer LEILA RASHEED, author of the Bathsheba Books, is busy writing a novella which will be published in time for the festival, is aimed at teenagers and adults alike and will be based around Stratford. The Literary Festival is working with Stratford College Art Students who will produce the winning cover for the novella, which is being printed by Scholastic Books.
Read Leila's Blog as she goes along!
Highlights of the 2009 Stratford Literary Festival included:
| Pam Ayres | Melvyn Bragg | Gyles Brandreth |
| Julian Clary | Gloria Hunniford | Roy Hattersley |
| Felix Dennis | Libby Purves OBE | Jasvinder Sanghera |
| David Nicholls | Deborah Moggach | Stuart Maconie |
| Professor Jonathan Bate | Ben Crystal | Zoe Lewis |
| Ginny Davis | Jill Fraser | Philip Reeve |
| Philip Ardagh | MG Harris | Dan Freedman |
| Christopher Rush | Julia Golding | Angela Woolfe |
| John Fardell | and many others |
If you are interested in event sponsorship at the Stratford Literary Festival please call us on 01789 470185. If you'd like to become a Friend of the Festival, you can find out more by clicking here.
We are extremely grateful to Stratford Town Trust who have once again given us a grant towards the success of the Children's Festival.
