I was clearly having fun at the Rocky Mountain Literary Festival …
#writers #litfests
#writers #litfests
October 7, 2023 at 11:29 PM
I was clearly having fun at the Rocky Mountain Literary Festival …
#writers #litfests
#writers #litfests
Updates.
- Done my first Keshed interview this morn
- Two LitFests booked
- Two radio appearances booked (on the same day, gotta take it off work, glam or wot? 🤣🤪)
- National newspaper review coming on Monday (hopefully, week after if not)
It's all kicking off, ya gotta love it 💪😎
#GetKeshed
- Done my first Keshed interview this morn
- Two LitFests booked
- Two radio appearances booked (on the same day, gotta take it off work, glam or wot? 🤣🤪)
- National newspaper review coming on Monday (hopefully, week after if not)
It's all kicking off, ya gotta love it 💪😎
#GetKeshed
January 20, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Updates.
- Done my first Keshed interview this morn
- Two LitFests booked
- Two radio appearances booked (on the same day, gotta take it off work, glam or wot? 🤣🤪)
- National newspaper review coming on Monday (hopefully, week after if not)
It's all kicking off, ya gotta love it 💪😎
#GetKeshed
- Done my first Keshed interview this morn
- Two LitFests booked
- Two radio appearances booked (on the same day, gotta take it off work, glam or wot? 🤣🤪)
- National newspaper review coming on Monday (hopefully, week after if not)
It's all kicking off, ya gotta love it 💪😎
#GetKeshed
A friend just sent me this from the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Accidental juxtapositions in the analogue world…
#litfests #cheltenham #cheltenhamfestival #nicejuxtaposition
Accidental juxtapositions in the analogue world…
#litfests #cheltenham #cheltenhamfestival #nicejuxtaposition
October 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A friend just sent me this from the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Accidental juxtapositions in the analogue world…
#litfests #cheltenham #cheltenhamfestival #nicejuxtaposition
Accidental juxtapositions in the analogue world…
#litfests #cheltenham #cheltenhamfestival #nicejuxtaposition
I can't work out what LN is trying to say in para 3 from your grab. It is 'society's only moral voice is found in litfests'? Or is it 'litfests are the cradles of precisely the same Bad Protest which is killing litfests'? Either way = 'not even wrong', obviously.
February 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I can't work out what LN is trying to say in para 3 from your grab. It is 'society's only moral voice is found in litfests'? Or is it 'litfests are the cradles of precisely the same Bad Protest which is killing litfests'? Either way = 'not even wrong', obviously.
Yes, that’s very much part of it, and the making of new friends I’m describing applies to work as well. Suddenly the Daily Mail and the Telegraph want you to write for them! Suddenly you’re being invited to fancy conferences and litfests in castles! They’re offering you business class flights!
August 16, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Yes, that’s very much part of it, and the making of new friends I’m describing applies to work as well. Suddenly the Daily Mail and the Telegraph want you to write for them! Suddenly you’re being invited to fancy conferences and litfests in castles! They’re offering you business class flights!
UK readers (and writers): which are your favourite Litfests, and why? I’m pondering coming over for book stuff this summer but have no clue about the bookfest scene these days. Thoughts? Links? 📚💙
January 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
UK readers (and writers): which are your favourite Litfests, and why? I’m pondering coming over for book stuff this summer but have no clue about the bookfest scene these days. Thoughts? Links? 📚💙
So this is where everyone is. I’m a broadcaster, mostly for #monocleradio where I host the #author interview show #meetthewriters & #geopolitics programme #theglobalist. I’m a trustee of #englishpen & (Hon) FRSL. I chair #litfests worldwide. Here is my #dog Bella & my bookshelf. Hello!
November 15, 2024 at 12:00 PM
So this is where everyone is. I’m a broadcaster, mostly for #monocleradio where I host the #author interview show #meetthewriters & #geopolitics programme #theglobalist. I’m a trustee of #englishpen & (Hon) FRSL. I chair #litfests worldwide. Here is my #dog Bella & my bookshelf. Hello!
Ditto to what others have said - modelling *matters*, and it *is* such a relief to see this. My anxiety is going through the roof hearing friends talk about going to conferences, litfests, etc., with no mention of masks, and no masks visible in event photos. 😖
October 14, 2023 at 12:12 PM
Ditto to what others have said - modelling *matters*, and it *is* such a relief to see this. My anxiety is going through the roof hearing friends talk about going to conferences, litfests, etc., with no mention of masks, and no masks visible in event photos. 😖
Feeling incredibly grateful. 🙏
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#penamerica #worldvoicesfestival #newyork #greyhound #areturntoself #nonfiction #softskull #catapult #literaryfestivals #litfests
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#penamerica #worldvoicesfestival #newyork #greyhound #areturntoself #nonfiction #softskull #catapult #literaryfestivals #litfests
Through Foreign Eyes
Two memoirs look at how travel proves a lens for exile, identity, and seeing the world—and oneself—anew.
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April 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Feeling incredibly grateful. 🙏
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#penamerica #worldvoicesfestival #newyork #greyhound #areturntoself #nonfiction #softskull #catapult #literaryfestivals #litfests
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#penamerica #worldvoicesfestival #newyork #greyhound #areturntoself #nonfiction #softskull #catapult #literaryfestivals #litfests
The Joy of Lit Fests and Indie Publishing! Full story: pod.link/1707027844 #litfests #indiepublishing #books #horror #punk #diy #queer #leftist #weirdpunkbooks #mn #samrichard #1000 @sammytotep.bsky.social @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Joy of Lit Fests and Indie Publishing! Full story: pod.link/1707027844 #litfests #indiepublishing #books #horror #punk #diy #queer #leftist #weirdpunkbooks #mn #samrichard #1000 @sammytotep.bsky.social @weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social
Yes, I just got informed that litfests are riddled with 'looney-left groupthink'. Responded by making comments about genre. I hope Bendigo can continue
August 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Yes, I just got informed that litfests are riddled with 'looney-left groupthink'. Responded by making comments about genre. I hope Bendigo can continue
I'm looking for UK queer and women's literature festivals in the UK that would be open to performances and workshops - any good suggestions?
#queerwriters
#Womenwriters
#litfests
#queerwriters
#Womenwriters
#litfests
January 6, 2026 at 11:25 AM
I'm looking for UK queer and women's literature festivals in the UK that would be open to performances and workshops - any good suggestions?
#queerwriters
#Womenwriters
#litfests
#queerwriters
#Womenwriters
#litfests
I was in Kerala for the first time this year (twice! for a couple litfests). It was indeed beautiful! I hope you have a lovely stay.
September 17, 2026 at 2:39 PM
I was in Kerala for the first time this year (twice! for a couple litfests). It was indeed beautiful! I hope you have a lovely stay.
'...and online': two words I like to read when literature festivals are advertising their programmes. Saves a lot of energy in trawling websites to find out if events are hybrid - often only to find they are not.
Even better - available on catch-up!
#Writing #BookSky #Hybrid #LitFests
Even better - available on catch-up!
#Writing #BookSky #Hybrid #LitFests
Explore the Litfest Autumn Weekend programme 2023! Ft. poetry, history, memoir, fiction and the International Fiction Lecture.
Live in-person and online, also available on 30 day catch up!
Free/Pay what you can, but reserve in advance!
Explore Programme: bit.ly/lfaw2…
Reserve Tickets: bit.ly/lfawt
Live in-person and online, also available on 30 day catch up!
Free/Pay what you can, but reserve in advance!
Explore Programme: bit.ly/lfaw2…
Reserve Tickets: bit.ly/lfawt
October 1, 2023 at 5:00 PM
'...and online': two words I like to read when literature festivals are advertising their programmes. Saves a lot of energy in trawling websites to find out if events are hybrid - often only to find they are not.
Even better - available on catch-up!
#Writing #BookSky #Hybrid #LitFests
Even better - available on catch-up!
#Writing #BookSky #Hybrid #LitFests
Pretty shabby that so many UK litfests were dependent on a single company for their existence, it seems. Compare to Dublin’s former Impac Prize, run by the city itself since it lost its sponsor. They do great stuff with libraries and local readers and it reaches far and wide.
June 9, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Pretty shabby that so many UK litfests were dependent on a single company for their existence, it seems. Compare to Dublin’s former Impac Prize, run by the city itself since it lost its sponsor. They do great stuff with libraries and local readers and it reaches far and wide.
”Hers are poems of the abyss, its irresistibility, its absurdity, its gooey splendor…”
Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
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Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
open.substack.com/pub/ninamacl...
Slugs, Swedish poetry, Mel Allen's New England, lots of litfests
New England Literary News
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September 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
”Hers are poems of the abyss, its irresistibility, its absurdity, its gooey splendor…”
Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
open.substack.com/pub/ninamacl...
Great review of Aase Berg’s Aase’s Death (forthcoming from Black Ocean) by Nina MacLaughlin
open.substack.com/pub/ninamacl...
My first post.
I’m the Black British author of anti-racist novels, DARLING and LUCKY (4th Estate, HarperCollins). Hopped on to find like-minded lovers of ideas, as well as lunches, launches, litfests; all that bookish jazz.
Say hi or wave if you’re out there👋🏾
#books #booklovers #authors
November 14, 2024 at 11:07 AM
My first post.
I’m the Black British author of anti-racist novels, DARLING and LUCKY (4th Estate, HarperCollins). Hopped on to find like-minded lovers of ideas, as well as lunches, launches, litfests; all that bookish jazz.
Say hi or wave if you’re out there👋🏾
#books #booklovers #authors
Earlier this month, had the privilege of attending & speaking at #DibrugarhUniversity's Int'l LitFest. Not the best-known of India's many litfests, but should be better known - sylvan location, great weather & AQI, bright-eyed univ students 😊
I know, I know; I am *always* late to these posts!! ...
I know, I know; I am *always* late to these posts!! ...
February 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Earlier this month, had the privilege of attending & speaking at #DibrugarhUniversity's Int'l LitFest. Not the best-known of India's many litfests, but should be better known - sylvan location, great weather & AQI, bright-eyed univ students 😊
I know, I know; I am *always* late to these posts!! ...
I know, I know; I am *always* late to these posts!! ...
Authors to give talks at the Allingham Arts Festival, the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Festival and the Frances Brown Literary Festival.
Colmcille Press authors to guest at Donegal Litfests
Autumn is becoming the season for literature in Donegal and we're delighted to say that our authors will be giving readings and lectures at the county's three keynote festivals over the next couple of...
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September 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Authors to give talks at the Allingham Arts Festival, the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Festival and the Frances Brown Literary Festival.
The Kerala Literature Festival is one among many such events taking place across Southasia – ideas hubs and cultural melting pots that provide a meeting place for writers, artists, musicians, booklovers, activists – and children.
Local flavour, global dialogue: Amidst a season of ‘litfests’ across Southasia, a view from Kerala - Sapan News
The Kerala Literature Festival is one among many such events taking place across Southasia – ideas hubs and cultural melting pots that provide a meeting place for writers, artists, musicians, booklove...
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February 11, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The Kerala Literature Festival is one among many such events taking place across Southasia – ideas hubs and cultural melting pots that provide a meeting place for writers, artists, musicians, booklovers, activists – and children.
Second Life's annual Fantasy Faire (a benefit for Relay for Life) is on! Guess who's this year's guest of honor at the literary festival? I'll host a workshop, a writing critique group, I'll read from my books, and will be interviewed. Whee!
#RFLSL
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#RFLSL
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LitFest’s Special Guest: Lori Alden Holuta
This year we have a very special Special Guest – a longterm supporter of the LitFest and a good friend of many of us – Lori Alden Holuta. Lori Alden Holuta Lori Alden Holuta is celebrat…
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April 24, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Second Life's annual Fantasy Faire (a benefit for Relay for Life) is on! Guess who's this year's guest of honor at the literary festival? I'll host a workshop, a writing critique group, I'll read from my books, and will be interviewed. Whee!
#RFLSL
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#RFLSL
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Parliament has become redundant due to spread of Internet. All are interested in LitFests, Conclaves, Podcasts, or Dialogues. Good for democracy but open discussion is a casualty. People fear opposing ideas. Instead of examining rival claims the tendency is to ignore like Ostrich #TusarNathMohapatra
March 7, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Parliament has become redundant due to spread of Internet. All are interested in LitFests, Conclaves, Podcasts, or Dialogues. Good for democracy but open discussion is a casualty. People fear opposing ideas. Instead of examining rival claims the tendency is to ignore like Ostrich #TusarNathMohapatra
@joannechocolat.bsky.social , would you mind reposting the original post for me please? Always good to get smaller LitFests some extra coverage 🙂 Thanks
May 28, 2026 at 10:18 AM
@joannechocolat.bsky.social , would you mind reposting the original post for me please? Always good to get smaller LitFests some extra coverage 🙂 Thanks
And having had one two litfests ago, I can attest to the height of this bar
February 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
And having had one two litfests ago, I can attest to the height of this bar
God, I love this! https://x.com/litfests/status/895808173319180288/photo/1
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December 13, 2024 at 3:37 PM
God, I love this! https://x.com/litfests/status/895808173319180288/photo/1