Monday 9 August 2021

Huddersfield Literature Festival events this week

With details of this weeks events and more:

All events are being held in spacious environments with the flexibility to offer social distancing as required
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Writing Memories - creative writing workshop with Sairish Hussain

1pm-3pm Wednesday 11 August (£10/£5 conc)
Sangam Festival Hub, The Piazza (opposite Huddersfield Library entrance)

Sairish Hussain is the author of The Family Tree, a multigenerational family saga set in Bradford. Join her for a life-writing workshop of creative writing exercises where you will record stories using parents, grandparents or other family members as an inspiration. You will draw on old family stories/anecdotes to create a work of fiction or use objects, places and people with ties to family/heritage/the past to inspire a story.

For local history buffs -
Film: A New Life in Huddersfield plus Q&A

7pm-8.15pm Wednesday 11 August
Sangam Festival Hub, The Piazza (opposite Huddersfield Library entrance)

Mandeep Samra introduces the screening of Let’s Go Yorkshire’s documentary film: A New Life in Huddersfield, and conducts a Q&A with two of the local participants, Jamil Akhtar and Hermant Kaur Dutta. The film tells personal stories about Partition and what it was like for people who arrived in Huddersfield in the 1950s onwards.

and don't miss...

The Lightless Sky

6pm-7pm Tuesday 10 August
Sangam Festival Hub, The Piazza (opposite Huddersfield Library entrance)
Free event – booking advised

A Huddersfield Literature Festival event hosted at Sangam Festival. At the age of 12, Gulwali Passarlay was sent from Afghanistan after his father was killed in a battle with the United States army. He spent 12 months travelling across Europe, including time in prison, a terrifying journey across the Mediterranean in a tiny boat and a month at a camp in Calais. Eventually he was fostered in Britain and won a place at a top university. In 2012, he was chosen to carry the Olympic torch. His powerful memoir celebrates the triumph of courage over adversity.

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For information and booking for similar events, visit the Sangam Festival website.

Tickets now on sale!

Val McDermid
7.30pm, Friday 3 September
Revell Ward Suite, John Smith's Stadium

The Queen of Crime Val McDermid writes electrifyingly suspenseful novels filled with warmth, wit and vividly memorable characters.
Her latest novel 1979, set in that year, is the first in a gripping new series featuring newspaper reporter Allie Burns. Val will be interviewed by Yvette Huddleston.

Please consider supporting our independent bookshop partners, Read Bookshop in Holmfirth and Fox Lane Books in North Yorkshire...

If you attend any author talks or workshops at this year's festival and want to order their books, your local independent bookshop is always happy to help - it's been a tough year for everyone and booksellers have had to adapt to doing a lot more of their sales online.

James and Louise at Read and Kirstie at Fox Lane will be happy to take your orders and arrange delivery - just click on the logos above to visit their websites

AND FINALLY .....

Thank you for the continued support of all our audiences, our fantastic authors, funders, sponsors, volunteers, suppliers and the Festival Team.

Keep writing, keep reading and stay safe.