Saturday, 19 November 2016

FREE Huddersfield Literature Festival 2017 Preview Event 30 November 2016

Huddersfield Literature Festival 2017, 4-19 March, has a Free Festival Preview Event coming up in November:

Join us at our Festival Preview on 30 November...

Free Festival Preview Event:
30 November

Join us at Magic Rock Tap at 6pm for an early taster of our 2017 Festival and be the first to find out about some of the events taking place next year from 4-19 March. We've also got performances from local poets and authors including, @MrKevinBoniface and Lisa Luxx - all for free!

This year's theme is courage and you can come and share what #courageis to you. If you can't wait, join us on Twitter to talk about what courage means to you with #courageis and your words could be shared on the night.

This is a fantastic opportunity to hear details of all the highlights of Huddersfield Literature Festival 2017.

Pre-book your free HLF Preview tickets here

Take part in our #courageis project

Our 2017 Festival Theme is 'Courage' and Kevin Boniface, author of The Most Difficult Thing Ever blog has provided us with some images for inspiration.

1. Choose one of our seven images

2. Write a few words inspired by the image, about what courage means to you

3. Either overlay the image with the words or post them alongside each other on social media:
a) On our Facebook page
b) On Twitter, including our Twitter handle: @Hudd_Lit_Fest and #courageis

If you don't use social media, you can send the image and caption to: huddlitfestchair@gmail.com

Tickets for Huddersfield Literature Festival:
On Sale Now!

Tickets for selected events are now on sale.
Don't miss out on securing a place to see these fantastic performers, authors and poets at Huddersfield Literature Festival.

Polari Up North + Section 28 Short Tuesday, 7 March 2017 @ 7:00pm

Entertaining, engaging and eclectic – Polari showcases top LGBT performers with universal appeal.

Featuring performers:

Paul Burston
Polari host, award-winning journalist and novelist, author of critically acclaimed chilling domestic noir The Black Path.

Jackie Hagan
An award-winning cosmic scally; poet, comedian, live artist, playwright and community artist, who downs champagne from her glittery false leg.

Juno Dawson
Queen of Teen 2014, multi-award-winning author of YA novels and non-fiction (This Book Is Gay, Mind Your Head). New novel Margo & Me.

VG Lee
Crazy hat lady and author of many magazine articles and five novels, the most recent being Mr Oliver’s Object of Desire.

Paul McVeigh
Bearded Irishman who likes to laugh and make other people cry – in a nice way. Writer of comedy, plays, short stories and novel The Good Son.

Plus:
Bettina Carpi & Gary Lloyd – Ending At Section 28:
Original Dance & Music short, inspired by Alan Moore's Prose History of Gender.

Get your tickets for Polari & Section 28 Here

Lisa Luxx: The Polyphonic Scars Show

Tuesday, 14 March 2017 @ 6:00pm

As a kid of the net-generation, Lisa Luxx grew up online. But after a crazy anti-net road trip round the wild landscapes near Silicon Valley, she briefly sobered up from technology to realise her peers are in deeper than she thought.

The Polyphonic Scars show is made up of personal stories and poetry about addiction, evolution and direct experience.

Buy Tickets to see Lisa Luxx

That's all for now. Don't forget to book your FREE tickets to our Preview Event on 30 November.

In the meantime keep an eye out for our next Enews - featuring advance notice on some more fantastic Festival 2017 events and first chance to access tickets on sale.