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Welcome
You might notice some exciting changes to this year's Beverley Literature Festival. Yes, there's still the great range of authors, events, and opportunities for creativity and conversation that you'd expect at Beverley, but with a deliberate omission.
Less poetry, so that we can do more poetry over the weekend of 11-13 June 2010 at our new dedicated poetry festival at Sewerby Hall, Bridlington; and many more creative writing opportunities for prose writers as a result of a new partnership between the Beverley and the University of Hull. This year's festival writer-in-residence Kachi Ozumba will also be offering a great value manuscript assessment service.
Our children's literature festival continues to grow (see centre pages) under the guidance of its new director Dorcas Taylor. We've lots of opportunities for young people to explore the way words and images go together, as well as to sit back and hear some fine authors and storytellers in the surroundings of that most important of buildings in any town - The Library!
We hope you enjoy our programme. And remember, books are great value (free from your library) - and the best of them, priceless.
John Clarke
Festival Director
Acknowledgements
Without the work of our Festival Friends the Beverley Literature Festival would be unable to take place – so many thanks to them.
Particular thanks to Jo Munro for her skill and generosity in volunteering to direct the programming and delivery of our children’s festival. And to Carrie Judge for the enthusiasm and expertise with which she manages the running of the festival friends festival events. And a belated thanks to Jenny Hambleton, the brilliant schools librarian, who has managed our data-base for the past three years.
Thanks also to Libraries and Information Support Team for running the Booking Line. We’d also like to thank all the authors, staff at the venues we’ve used and the following organisations:
Funders
East Riding Library Service and Arts Council England, Yorkshire, who provide regular funding to Wordquake, the literature development organisation that runs the Beverley Literature Festival.
Sponsors
Strategy Plus
Blackwell the Festival Bookseller
Arc Publications
University of Hull
Supporters
Beverley Tourist Information Centre, HarperCollins, Penguin, Random House, Bloomsbury, Little Brown Book Group, Scholastic, Fourth Estate, Luath Press, Routledge, Penguin
Volunteers
Last year’s festival was transformed by the generous support of the Festival Friends who donated 1000hrs of their time to activities ranging from managing the data-base, selling refreshments to running events. If you’d like to help out with the festival and enable it to grow, please get in touch with john.clarke@eastriding.gov.uk.
Sponsorship opportunities
Following the success of our partnership with Strategy Plus (designers of
our website), we’re keen to encourage further sponsorship. If you'd like to
be associated with us as we develop, contact john.clarke@eastriding.gov.uk to discuss your part in shaping the cultural life of Beverley and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
Who we are
The Beverley Literature Festival is part of the Wordquake project, which receives regular funding from Arts Council England and East Riding of Yorkshire Library Service. Wordquake was set up to promote creative writing and reading throughout the East Riding of Yorkshire. Wordquake and The Beverley Literature Festival are managed by the part-time project-director Dr John Clarke and volunteer festival co-ordinator Carrie Judge with professional advice, help and office support from East Riding Library Service.
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