Libertas Book Festival
DATES: Friday 27 & Sat 28 October 2006
VENUE: York Racecourse
TIME: 9.45am each day to about 5.30pm
TICKETS: one-day ticket £20, two-day ticket £35
see www.ylaf.or.guk for more information
Two great days
Your ticket gets you in to all sessions at the book festival (one or two-day tickets available), subject to space. It’s a lively couple of days packed with readings, discussion, book-signings and performances.
Hear Jackie Kay and Rebecca Brown discussing the use of fact and fiction in their work; or Manda Scott, Val McDermid and Jane Fletcher talking about what goes into writing a series of novels.
Sit back and enjoy the best in performance poetry from Dorothea Smartt, Aoife Mannix, Stacy Makishi and Salena Godden, or wow the audience with your own 5-minute performance at our open-mic sessions.
Enjoy Sandi Toksvig’s amusing talk about her latest book, and American romance writers sharing the secrets of writing about sex.
Take your pick from more than a dozen different ‘happenings’ each day, in a friendly, relaxed environment at a top venue - York Racecourse. You don’t have to be gay, you don’t have to be ‘out’, but it probably helps if you like books!
The authors
Our American guests We are delighted to play host to more US authors than ever before: Kathleen Bryson, Joan Opyr, Abha Dawesar, JM Redmann, Radclyffe, Kim Baldwin, Therese Szymanski, Megan Carter, Rebecca Brown. All appear on both days.
Can’t miss your favourite? Make sure you are there when these authors appear for one day only: Sandi Toksvig (Friday), Helen Cross (Saturday), Cathy Ryan (Saturday), Dorothea Smartt (Friday), Naomi Alderman (Friday morning), Ali Smith (Saturday).
UK-based writers and speakers appearing on both days Stella Duffy, Jane Fletcher, Jackie Kay, VG Lee, Reina Lewis, Val McDermid, Jenny Roberts, Helen Sandler, Manda Scott, Kelly Smith, Jane Traies, Christine Webb and more.
Poets on both days Stacy Makishi, Aoife Mannix, Salena ‘Saliva’ Godden
Visiting groups Writers from Chroma, Commonword’s Bitch Lit Tour and proudWORDS - poets and short story writers on the cutting edge. Plus the Wotever crew mentioned above.