With the latest news and offers from Huddersfield Literature Festival:
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A big thank you to everyone who has joined in our
online activity over the past 10 days.
With time on
our hands, some of us will be thinking about that novel, or short
story collection, we have always meant to write.
And
Huddersfield Literature Festival is here to help with top tips and
readings from some of our authors:
 
Looking
for feedback on your writing? Paul Burston and VG Lee are
offering special Festival rates on critiques of your work, from an
800-word extract to a full manuscript.
Find out more HERE.
Listen
to Paul introducing and reading from his latest bestseller, The Closer I
Get, HERE and VG Lee reading from
her short story collection Oh You Pretty
Thing HERE.
Aspiring writers can enjoy VG Lee’s Writing Tips HERE.
Features, poems and stories
Louise Beech was due to perform at Polari, run by Paul Burston – an
LGBTQ+ literary salon, which we look forward to hosting every year.
You can listen to Louise introducing and reading from her latest
novel The Lion
Tamer Who Lost HERE.
Another of our Polari performers is Andrew McMillan. His debut, physical, was the first poetry collection to win the Guardian
First Book Award. He introduces and reads poems from his latest
collection playtime HERE.
‘My characters hug, and kiss, and jostle each other in busy
streets…writing these scenes feels weird and even archaic; perhaps a
little transgressive. This is not what we do.’
David Barnett explains why Things Can Only Get Better… read more HERE.
Meg Pokrass was due to teach her Fiery Flash Fiction Workshop at our Festival – instead we
have a special treat for you: a brand new story, Glamping in the Mist. Click HERE to read it and for a link
to Meg’s Flash Fiction writing tips.
Author Q&As
Nell Pattison is a debut author, who we had
paired up with Val McDermid for a live event during the Festival. Her
novel The Silent
House introduces
BSL translator Paige Northwood, brought in to help the police
investigation when a young girl is murdered in a deaf household
We hope to reschedule this event for HLF2021; meanwhile, you can read
her Q&A HERE.
RC
Bridgestock – a husband
and wife crime-writing duo – share their insights into their writing
career and as consultants on TV crime dramas Happy Valley and Scott & Bailey.
The follow-up to their popular DI Jack Dylan series is a new series
set in Huddersfield, starting with Payback, which introduces a female DI
Charley Mann. Read their Q&A HERE.
And finally ...
 In Can You Hear Me, Paramedic ‘Jake Jones’ shares a fascinating insight into
one of the most important and demanding jobs that anyone can do –
under normal circumstances. So we’d like to say a huge thank you to
‘Jake’ and all the NHS workers dealing with Coronavirus on top of
their usual duties.
You can order his book from our Festival partners Read Holmfirth and Fox Lane Books.
A short audio reading by Jake from his book can be accessed HERE.
Find more
authors on our website HERE and keep a
close eye on our Facebook page - click here
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NEW DATES ANNOUNCED!
Amanda Owen: The Yorkshire
Shepherdess
3pm Sunday 20 September, Holmfirth Civic Hall &
3pm Sunday
27 September Marsden Mechanics
If you already have tickets for one of these
venues they will remain valid, keep hold of them and bring them
in print or digital format to the event.
If you can't make the new date and would like a refund, please email:
info@huddlitfest.org.uk
with details of your name and ticket purchase(s).
Please note, both events are
currently sold out. If more tickets become available they will be
offered to those signed up to our newsletter first.
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RESCHEDULED FROM 22 MARCH
Limited
tickets available for
Gentleman
Jack with Anne Choma
NEW DATE:
Sunday 4 October, 2pm, Holmfirth Civic Hall
If you already have tickets for this event, they will
remain valid, keep hold of them and bring them in print or digital
format to the event. If you can't make the new date and would like a
refund, please email: info@huddlitfest.org.uk
with details of your name and ticket purchase(s).
 
PLEASE DO
NOT EMAIL OR CALL ABOUT REFUNDS FOR OTHER EVENTS, THESE WILL BE
PROCESSED IN DUE COURSE.
For more
info and booking, please click HERE.
Sponsored by: 
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PLEASE NOTE:
If you are waiting for a ticket refund, please can we ask
for your patience.
We have thousands to process and are additionally having a few issues
with those paid through WorldPay (rather than PayPal), which we
expect to be resolved soon. However, it may take a couple of weeks to
work through all of the tickets we have to refund.
PLEASE DO NOT:
a) phone our
call centre about refunds – it costs us money each
time you call
b) email our
staff about refunds – we are trying to deal with the
fall-out of cancelling the Festival and it takes time away from our
work to reply to you
c) phone or
email to ask if events are going ahead – all events
have been cancelled apart from those still on the events page of our
website, which we have postponed in the hope of setting a new date.
IF YOU
WOULD LIKE TO HELP US:
We have set up a page where you can donate from £3 upwards to
help our Festival funds. This will be used to pay authors to
run some online activities with us as they will no longer be
appearing at our Festival.
You can
find out more and donate HERE.
Thank you for your co-operation and understanding at this difficult
time.
Michelle
Michelle Hodgson
Festival Director
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AND FINALLY .....
Huddersfield Literature Festival will return in March
2021 - hopefully without snow or pandemic. Thank you for the
support of all our audiences, our fantastic authors, funders,
sponsors, volunteers, suppliers and the Festival Team.
Keep writing, keep reading and stay safe.
        
 
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A big thank you to everyone who
has joined in our online activity over the past 10 days.
With time
on our hands, some of us will be thinking about that novel, or
short story collection, we have always meant to write.
And
Huddersfield Literature Festival is here to help with top tips
and readings from some of our authors:
Looking for feedback on your writing? Paul
Burston and VG Lee are offering special
Festival rates on critiques of your work, from an 800-word
extract to a full manuscript.
Find out more HERE.
Listen to Paul introducing and reading from his latest
bestseller, The Closer I Get, HERE and VG Lee reading
from her short story collection Oh You
Pretty Thing HERE.
Aspiring writers can enjoy VG Lee’s Writing Tips HERE.
Features, poems and stories
Louise
Beech was due to perform at Polari,
run by Paul Burston – an LGBTQ+ literary salon, which we look
forward to hosting every year. You can listen to Louise
introducing and reading from her latest novel The Lion Tamer Who Lost HERE.
Another of our Polari performers is Andrew McMillan. His debut, physical, was the first poetry collection to win the
Guardian First Book Award. He introduces and reads poems from his
latest collection playtime HERE.
‘My characters hug, and kiss, and jostle each other in busy
streets…writing these scenes feels weird and even archaic;
perhaps a little transgressive. This is not what we do.’
David Barnett explains why Things Can Only Get Better… read more HERE.
Meg
Pokrass
was due to teach her Fiery Flash Fiction Workshop at our Festival – instead
we have a special treat for you: a brand new story, Glamping in the Mist. Click HERE to read it and for a
link to Meg’s Flash Fiction writing tips.
Author Q&As
Nell
Pattison is a
debut author, who we had paired up with Val McDermid for a live
event during the Festival. Her novel The Silent House introduces BSL translator Paige
Northwood, brought in to help the police investigation when a
young girl is murdered in a deaf household
We hope to reschedule this event for HLF2021; meanwhile, you can
read her Q&A HERE.
RC
Bridgestock – a husband and wife crime-writing duo – share
their insights into their writing career and as consultants on TV
crime dramas Happy
Valley and
Scott
& Bailey.
The follow-up to their popular DI Jack Dylan series is a new
series set in Huddersfield, starting with Payback, which introduces a female DI
Charley Mann. Read their Q&A HERE.
And finally ...
In Can You Hear Me, Paramedic ‘Jake Jones’ shares a fascinating insight
into one of the most important and demanding jobs that anyone can
do – under normal circumstances. So we’d like to say a huge thank
you to ‘Jake’ and all the NHS workers dealing with Coronavirus on
top of their usual duties.
You can order his book from our Festival partners Read Holmfirth and Fox Lane Books.
A short audio reading by Jake from his book can be accessed HERE.
Find more
authors on our website HERE and keep
a close eye on our Facebook page - click here
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NEW DATES ANNOUNCED!
Amanda Owen: The Yorkshire
Shepherdess
3pm Sunday 20 September, Holmfirth Civic Hall
&
3pm
Sunday 27 September Marsden Mechanics
If you already have tickets for one of these
venues they will remain valid, keep hold of them and bring
them in print or digital format to the event.
If you can't make the new date and would like a refund, please
email: info@huddlitfest.org.uk
with details of your name and ticket purchase(s).
Please
note, both events are currently sold out. If more tickets become
available they will be offered to those signed up to our
newsletter first.
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RESCHEDULED FROM 22 MARCH
Limited
tickets available for
Gentleman
Jack with Anne Choma
NEW
DATE: Sunday 4 October, 2pm, Holmfirth Civic Hall
If you already have tickets for this event, they
will remain valid, keep hold of them and bring them in print or
digital format to the event. If you can't make the new date and
would like a refund, please email: info@huddlitfest.org.uk
with details of your name and ticket purchase(s).
PLEASE
DO NOT EMAIL OR CALL ABOUT REFUNDS FOR OTHER EVENTS, THESE WILL
BE PROCESSED IN DUE COURSE.
For more
info and booking, please click HERE.
Sponsored by:
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PLEASE NOTE:
If you are waiting for a ticket refund, please can we
ask for your patience.
We have thousands to process and are additionally having a few
issues with those paid through WorldPay (rather than PayPal),
which we expect to be resolved soon. However, it may take a
couple of weeks to work through all of the tickets we have to
refund.
PLEASE DO NOT:
a) phone
our call centre about refunds – it costs us money
each time you call
b) email
our staff about refunds – we are trying to deal
with the fall-out of cancelling the Festival and it takes time
away from our work to reply to you
c) phone
or email to ask if events are going ahead – all
events have been cancelled apart from those still on the events
page of our website, which we have postponed in the hope of
setting a new date.
IF
YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP US:
We have set up a page where you can donate from £3
upwards to help our Festival funds. This will be used to pay
authors to run some online activities with us as they will
no longer be appearing at our Festival.
You
can find out more and donate HERE.
Thank you for your co-operation and understanding at this
difficult time.
Michelle
Michelle Hodgson
Festival Director
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AND FINALLY .....
Huddersfield Literature Festival will return in
March 2021 - hopefully without snow or pandemic. Thank you
for the support of all our audiences, our fantastic authors,
funders, sponsors, volunteers, suppliers and the Festival Team.
Keep writing, keep reading and stay safe.
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