Festival News

Bradford Literature Festival director Syima Aslam is to appear at FutureBook Live Conference along with Eliza Easton, principal policy researcher at Nesta; Sam Coniff Allende, author of Be More Pirate; Ian Forrester, senior R&D firestarter at BBC North lab; Wil Harris, co-founder…

Syima Aslam has won the award for Professional of the Year at the Yorkshire Asian Business Awards. Click here to read more.

The shortlists for categories in the Yorkshire Asian Business Association Awards feature a host of Bradford names, including Bradford Literature Festival founder Syima Aslam and Asian Life’s Hussein Kajee. To read more click here.

Syima Aslam, the founder of the Bradford Literature Festival, was last night announced as the winner of the Hospital Club h 100 Award in the Writing and Publishing category. Click to read more.

radford Literature Festival (BFL) increased visitor attendance by more than 40% this year with record audiences of over 70,000. The festival’s BAME audience also grew with 51% of 2018’s visitors coming from black or minority ethnic backgrounds, up from 49%…

This year’s Bradford Literature Festival (BLF) attracted record audiences of more than 70,000 – a 40 per cent increase on last year and a huge rise from a humble audience of 968 when it began as a two-day event four…

For the second year in a row, she has been nominated in the Publishing and Writing category of the h 100 Awards, an annual celebration of the talent working across the UK’s creative industries and organised by The Hospital Club,…

Syima Aslam co-founded the Bradford Literary Festival with Irna Qureshi,  combining their passion for books and film to create a cultural and literary extravaganza celebrating the written and spoken word. It had 10,000 visitors in its launch year (2015), 32,000 in…

Kate Bush should buy Emily Brontë a drink. Wuthering Heights was the inspiration for (and the name of) the singer’s iconic debut single in 1978. Still, it’s hard to buy a pinot grigio for a 19th-century genius, so Bush has…

Events took place throughout the city, including free drama shows next to the Mirror Pool. Improptu, fun performances took place in the city centre for the hundreds of children cooling off while enjoying the sun in the Mirror Pool. To read…