Festival News
Bradford Literature Festival offers students chance to appear at festival
The competition, being run in association with Provident Financial Group, challenges teams of three or four Year 12 students to pitch an idea for an event to be held as part of next year’s Bradford Literature Festival Public Programme. Six winning teams…
FutureBook programme launches featuring ‘all the talents’
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 wins Professional of the Year
Syima Aslam has won the award for Professional of the Year at the Yorkshire Asian Business Awards. Click here to read more.
Shortlist for Yorkshire Asian Business Association Awards announced
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 wins Hospital Club Award
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.
Bradford Literature Festival visitor attendance up 40%
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%…
Record breaking year for Bradford Literature Festival as more than 70,000 attend
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…
Director of Bradford Literature Festival nominated for top award
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,…
5 things inspiring Bradford Literature Festival’s Syima Aslam right now
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…
The Telegraph: On the trail of Emily Brontë
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…