Festival News
The Times – Kate Bush returns to the wily windy moors for Brontë tribute
Bush, who released her seminal song Wuthering Heights, based on Brontë’s novel, 40 years ago when she was 18, is to help create a new public artwork to commemorate the author and her sisters. The artwork will be created by…
Daily Mail – Bradford Literature Festival announce Brontë Stones Project with Kate Bush
Wuthering Heights singer Kate Bush will pay new tribute to the Brontë sisters when her poetry is engraved on artwork on the ‘windy moors’ that inspired her pop hit … To read more click here.
Bradford Literature Festival launches competition with S&S and Darley Anderson
Simon & Schuster UK has launched a competition with Bradford Literature Festival and the Darley Anderson Literary Agency to find the next bestselling commercial fiction author. The theme for the first ‘Write Here, Right Now’ prize is “new beginnings and…
BLF named in Travelmag.com’s list of 12 unique things to do in Bradford.
Situated in the northern county of West Yorkshire, Bradford is one of Britain’s most historically important cities, awash with legacies of the Industrial Revolution, including the Bradford Industrial Museum, housed in a charming 19th-century mill. The city has also kept…
BBC Radio 4 Blast at BLF ‘Poetry With A Punch’
Radio 4’s poet-in-residence, Daljit Nagra, pays a visit to Bradford Literature Festival and to Herefordshire, for the 21st annual Ledbury Poetry Festival, to meet poets writing about difficult fathers and absent mothers, upbringings and lost parents. To listen again, click…
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Writes in the Independent
‘At Bradford Literature Festival I saw how Muslim women are changing Britain’. To read the full article, click here.
Superheroes Give Power to Bradford Literature Festival
Superheroes were out in force today as Bradford Literature Festival got underway. To see the full article click here.
Director Syima Aslam Writes in the Telegraph
‘As a British Muslim, I want our daughters to learn that sexuality is to be enjoyed, not endured’. To read the full article, please click here.
Bradford Literature Festival visitors soar ‘to 50k’
Bradford Literature Festival has revealed it is expecting around 18,000 more people to attend than last year. To read the full article on Bookseller click here.
Brontës, Bradford and Buddhist poetry – meet the women transforming the literary festival
The Guardian’s Claire Armitstead reports – “Irna Qureshi and Syima Aslam have upended the traditional festival model to create a 10-day cultural jamboree that holds appeal across the city’s diverse communities”. To read the full article please click here.
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