BECOME A
FRIEND OF THE
FOLKESTONE BOOK FESTIVAL The Friends offer support and sponsorship of Festival events. Your membership of the Friends is an important element in ensuring the future success of the Festival. For an annual membership fee of £10 single, £15 double (couples/friends) you can enjoy the following benefits and make a vital contribution to the Folkestone Book Festival.
Festival Preview • Friends Concessions on Festival tickets • Priority booking • Dedicated Friends area on the • Festival website newsletter • Regular reading group • Book • Annual quiz night
To join the Friends please contact: Jo Olliver, Membership Secretary Tel: 01303 247 775 or email info@flits.org.uk
FESTIVAL READS We have two festival reads this year: Fahrenheit 451 by the late Ray Bradbury: a screening of the Tuffaut adaptation at 5.00 pm on Wednesday 7 November will be followed by a panel discussion with SF experts. At 5.00 pm on Friday 9 November, author Deborah Moggach tells us how the delicious These Foolish Things became the equally delightful Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (screened at 3.00 pm). If you have read the books and would like to give others the opportunity to do so, please leave your book around the town or at any public place where others can pick it up. Do leave your name and comments inside the front cover to let people know that they are welcome to take it away.
Competition
for budding journalists As part of the Folkestone Book Festival, the Herald, one of our media partners this year, is on the look-out for aspiring journalists with a flair for writing.
stage or television, used on a games console, heard on the radio or even sampled on the internet in the past 12 months. Our judging panel is looking for information, passion and a flash of panache to sustain the reader through to the end. Our winner will get the chance to interview or review one of the big names on the bill at this year’s Festival. This work will be published prominently in the Herald series. Also on offer is a week’s (paid) work experience so that our winner can experience life in a busy newsroom. The judging panel are Alastair Upton, chief executive of the Creative Foundation, Jonathan Holborow, former editor of the Mail on Sunday, and Simon Finlay, editor of the Herald series of newspapers. The competition is open from September 18 2012 until October 19 2012. Entries can be sent to Simon Finlay, Westcliffe House, West Cliff Gardens, Folkestone CT20 1SZ or simon.finlay@KRNMedia.co.uk
Open to people aged 16- 24, the task is for entrants to submit a review of at least 250 words but no more than 350. The subject matter can be anything you have seen on
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