York Literature Festival 2022 - Two Weeks to go.

Tickets selling fast!

We are so excited for the return of York Literature Festival, starting in two weeks time!

Friday 18th March is the opening day of York Literature Festival 2022. Have you got your ticket yet?

The full programme is now available for you to consider and can be found here where you can also download an online copy of the brochure.

Our What's On page contains all the relevant links to tickets for each event.

Many of our events are selling fast, so make sure you are not disappointed and get onto our website to book your seat. There is lots to choose from.

Acclaimed novelist Sarah Hall will be in conversation for our opening event, which is taking place in the new Creative Centre at York St John University. Come and join us!



We have a fantastic event celebrating gigs, music venues and music memoir, at The Fulford Arms. This is a new venue and event concept for York Literature Festival and we are excited to include it in this year's programme. There will be a panel discussion followed by a reading and conversation with author Lucy Nichol about her novel The Twenty Seven Club, before we finish with live music and spoken word performance.  It should be a great event.



We are also delighted to be hosting York-based novelist S arah Maine on Saturday 19th March at St Peter's School. Other events at this amazing venue include the historian Simon Jenkins discussing Europe's 100 Best Cathedrals (26th March), as well as the political evaluation of the Covid crisis in our event celebrating the book Failures of State (21st March). Finally, Magid Magid will also be discussing The Art of Disruption (25th March).






The festival concludes on Sunday 27th March with three events: Helen Mort will be discussing her new book A Line Above the Sky: On Mountains and Motherhood at York St John University; Val McDermid will be at St Peter's School to discuss her latest crime novel 1979; and the festival concludes at The Crescent, with an evening of spoken word performance in collaboration with Say Owt, featuring the poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan.



We are also hosting poetry workshops around tenderness and photographs, children's activities and a host of other events, including the Yorkshire Shepherdess, Amanda Owen (20th March) and the great Alexander McCall Smith (14th March).

Please keep an eye on our website and Twitter account for more information. We are so pleased to be back and we hope you can join us soon.