Meet the Team
The Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival was set up in 2008 and the Festival team comprises:
Maggie O’Farrell
Festival Patron, novelist, award-winning author of Hamnet
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Julia Donaldson
The UK’s bestselling children’s author and Patron of our Outreach Work
Annie Ashworth
Festival Director and Programmer
Jo James
Operations Director and Programmer
Charlotte Brennan
Festival Administrator and Charity Fundraising
Nicole Park
Partnerships and Development Manager
Suzanne Worthington
Volunteers Coordinator
Becci Smith
Family and Schools Events Programmer
Judy Reaves
Set Design and My Author Project
Liz Wise
Books with Friends Meetings Leader
Alison Morris
Writers’ Room Author Care and Head of Better
David Fletcher
Trustee and Money Man
Rupert Barnes
Festival Photographer
Lorentz Gullachsen
Photographer, Festival Faces Project
Truda Spruyt
Press and PR, Combined Wisdom
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Shakespeare Media
Digital Advertising
ProSound
Production
Trustees:
Neil Davis, David Fletcher, Dr Diana Owen OBE (Acting Chair), Madeleine Parker, Professor Emma Smith, Julia Wheeler
Prison Workshop Team:
Annie Ashworth, Festival Director
Hollie Hughes, Children’s Author
Smriti Halls, Children’s Author
Patrick Kincaid, Author
The Festival offers an opportunity for people to meet their favourite authors and celebrities and the chance to learn new skills. It has an extensive community programme, works in prisons and has one of the biggest educational and outreach programmes of any literary festival.
We also aim to have great fun doing it!
Festival Office: 01789 470185
The Stratford Literary Festival is Charitable Incorporated Organisation Number: 1164662.