Burnley Literary Festival 2018

28 sept-01 OCT 2018 BURNLEY TOWN CENTRE

burnleyliteraryfestival.co.uk

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VENUE GUIDE

All our venues are accessible unless otherwise stated.

1. Burnley Central Library Grimshaw St, BB11 2BD Weavers’

10. One Sixty 160 St James’s St, BB11 1NR

2. Burnley Community Kitchen Centre (Burnley FC in the Community) 83 The Balcony, Market Square, BB11 1AE

11. Quick Crepes 60 St James’s St, BB11 1NH

TriangleVisitor

12. Rhode Island Coffee 62 St James’s St, BB11 1NH

3. Burnley Market Curzon St, BB11 1BB

13. Snowdrop Doula CIC Hub, 47 Parker Lane, BB11 2BU

4. Burnley Mechanics Theatre (Basement Studio is accessed at the rear of The Mechanics) Manchester Rd, BB11 1BH

14. The Mall, Charter Walk Shopping Centre BB11 1AE 15. The Palazzo Grimshaw St, Burnley, BB11 2AS

5. Burnley Women’s Centre 4 Nicholas St, BB11 2EU

Please note the session is in the balcony / 1st floor area

6. Calico Community Room Centenary Court, Croft Street, BB11 1DU

16. The Shift Café Above The Swan Inn, St James’s St, BB11 1NQ

7. Easy Coffee 54 St James’s St, BB11 1NH

Please note this is a 1st floor venue

17. Illuminati 18 Hammerton St, BB11 1NA

8. Transform Crafts 6 Hargreaves St, BB11 1EA

18. Little Barista 7 Howe Walk, BB11 1QL

9. Krafty Cow Tearoom 16 Boot Way, BB11 2EE

19. Kellys Café & Bar 14 St James’s St BB11 1NG 2

2018 FESTIVAL Four days of brilliantly bookish events!

Burnley Literary Festival is a celebration of the literary arts and a showcase of Burnley town centre and the wider area.

theatre, and writers to workshops… there’s something for everyone!

This year the Festival is focusing on Women and Wellbeing, so look out for lots of sessions relating to one or both themes.

From books to broadcasts, comics to characters, movies to monologues, poetry to podcasts, storytelling to street

My name’s Jack Bookay and I was designed by Amaar Saqib of Stoneyholme Community Primary School.

Look out for my crown throughout this programme to find Festival sessions which are child and family friendly.

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Fri 28 sept

Coffee, Drama, Action!

Literary Art Trail

10.00 Rhode Island Coffee 10.30 Easy Coffee 11.00 Quick Crepes

Dreamcatcher Theatre Company

Level 3 Art & Design students from Burnley College.

The artworks on display at locations around the town centre have been generated by Level 3 Art and Design students from Burnley College. The works are inspired

by Burnley Literary Festival and demonstrate a use of 2D, 3D, traditional and digital approaches.

Why do we meet for coffee?

What do we talk about whilst we sip?

An up close and intimate exploration of our coffee house conversations and the relationships that are formed.

“Over a cup of coffee Enemies can become friends, Cold War can end, Hurts and heartaches can mend” Jun Munez

Poetry Map of the World Transform Crafts | 10.00 – 17.00 Transform Crafts’ Poetry Group are creating a poetry map of the world, with examples of poetry including ekphrastic poetry, haikus, and their poets.

Short drama performances written and performed

by Year 12 BTEC Performing Arts students from Thomas Whitham Sixth Form especially for Burnley Literary Festival.

Pop in to go on a poetic journey!

FREE - Just drop in.

JTU | FREE | Food and drink available to buy.

Simple Pleasures: Poetry Workshop

- Amy Lee Tempest Burnley Women’s Centre |12.00 – 14.00 Poetry is an amazing way of celebrating the good things in life. In this session, you’ll hear some poems being read that have that extra special feel good factor.

You’ll have the chance to write your own poem about something you love. Favourite flower?

Morning coffee? Special pair of socks?! Make the rest of us try and guess your object.

The Magic of Libraries - Ashleigh Nugent aka Ash the Rapper Burnley Central Library

You’ll hear some poems written by female poets celebrating womanhood. You’ll write your own poem celebrating the most amazing woman in your life – you! Read it out with lots of attitude, or sit back and soak up other people’s words.

‘Ash will be working with local primary schools to bring the library to life. Year 6 students from Cherry Fold Community Primary, Springfield Community Primary and Christ the King RC Primary School will be visiting the library for a backstage tour and fun rap workshop - using book titles and imagination to write and perform short raps.

An uplifting, amazing women only session.

TS | BOOKING ESSENTIAL | WOMEN ONLY

Schools event only.

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The Men from NAFA

Creating a Comic

- The Mall (by Clintons) | 12.00 – 16.00 (drop-in session)

- Paul Barlow- gingerjam.co.uk

Like NASA but NAFA, poets and part-time rocket scientists Winston H Plowes and Ian Longstaff bring you their unique, innovative and fun poetry and creative writing workshop.

Burnley Market |13.00 – 15.00 | Age 12+ Paul Barlow, graphic designer and comic book enthusiast invites you to take part in this workshop to help you concoct a thrilling tale in a comic book style.

JTU | FREE

TS | BOOKING ESSENTIAL | FREE | LIMITED SPACES

Smart Art Short Film Making Seminar – Creative Talent Management Burnley College | 13.00 – 14.00 Host Speaker Kevin Furber of Creative Talent Management and special guest speakers award winning Blackburn film maker Aaron Dunleavy, and Odd Job Alfie, Clitheroe’s documentary star will deliver this exciting seminar.

Poet Rory Waterman Calico Community Room | 12.30 – 13.15

Attendees will have the chance to learn about what goes into making a film / documentary from some of the industry’s best local professionals using only your bare wit, raw talent and smartphone or device.

Rory Waterman’s Sarajevo Roses is a timely collection that taps into current anxieties about collective, individual and European identity in a time of political uncertainty. There are also poems dealing with Brexit and the atmosphere of tension around the 2016 US election, and the collection as a whole looks at the ways in which we form relationships across geographical, political and cultural boundaries; how we define ourselves in terms of place and ‘home’.

Participants will also be briefed about the rules and locations for filming at Burnley Literary Festival as part of the Smart Art competition.

This session is aimed at students.

TS | FREE

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Mindfulness & Creative Writing Workshop

Poet Judith Willson

Calico Community Room | 13.30 – 15.30

Calico Community Room | 15.45 – 16.30

- Lancashire Adult Learning

Judith Willson’s debut Crossing the Mirror Line came out Oct 17. The collection explores the ideas of doubleness, mirrored reflections, symmetry, the relationship between the observer and the observed, seeing and not seeing etc… Moving through history and the northern landscape, Judith’s poems show us that history is always living and breathing beneath the surface, in the form of information leaflets and boards in museums, objects and artefacts, grand estates, popular walks.

And how places and things are not always as they appear on the surface.

Lancashire Adult Learning’s health and wellbeing courses are designed to help you live a better life and improve your physical and emotional wellbeing.

This workshop will provide an introduction to mindfulness and explore how the practice of mindfulness can inspire creative writing. Take time out with this inspirational class to observe, explore and create.

TS | FREE

TS | FREE

Searching for a Factory Girl

- Pendle Radicals Project, Janet Swan & Mid Pennine Arts

‘Snipits’ Poetry Taster Class, Transform Crafts

One Sixty | 17.30 – 19.00 Glimpses of the unsung but extraordinary, socialist, feminist writer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth in readings, songs and chat.

Transform Crafts | 15.30 - 17.30 Come and join this free, fun and easy poetry class.

At this session you will be given an envelope of words ‘snipits’ which you can use with connecting words to make a poem. Examples and support will be provided.

Raised in Great Harwood and later resident around Pendle, this prolific novelist, poet and journalist was a close contemporary of suffragist Selina Cooper. Like Selina, she was working in the mills from age 11 but somehow defied the logic of working class existence to make herself heard and fashion an extraordinary life.

You will be able to take a copy home with you and your work will be added to the Poetry Map of the World which will be on display for a week.

Ethel’s writing is fearless. She tackles head on the harsh realities of life as lived in Lancashire’s mill towns, and she pulls no punches about its inequalities.

TS | Places limited

This session is part of the Pendle Radicals project.

TS | BOOKING ESSENTIAL | FREE | LIMITED SPACES

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Pregnancy and Parenting books...

Patronising or Practical?

Snowdrop Doula | 19.00 – 21.00 This interesting session will look at pregnancy and parenting books. Do we need them? Are they any good? What’s missing from the available books?

You can join in the discussion or just listen.

TS | FREE | Includes refreshments.

The Only One in the World Burnley Youth Theatre Burnley Mechanics Front Room Performances at 18.00 & 20.00 Meet Liv - clever, funny, confident - until her world is turned upside down. Follow one girl’s journey into a world of grooming and abuse, told beautifully through storytelling and spoken word with heart breaking consequences. Created in collaboration with Burnley Youth Theatre, commissioned by and developed with Lancashire Constabulary, and fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Friday Night…

Spoken Word, Music and Band Night!

“Outstanding production– gripping, impactful and beautifully performed.”

(Audience Member)

The Shift Café | Doors 19.00 Performances from 20.00

45 min performance + Q & A.

The Shift Cafe presents a night of poetry and live musical poetry with:

BM | Tickets £3 / £2 concessions

Solo act “Dylan Austin” performing some of his own, unique and original masterpieces. Dylan has a Jim Morrison esq vibe and certainly has some contending Doors-like hits. Poetic band “Fire Tower 4” will be enlightening us with some poetic music as each gig evolves through the interaction between musicians in an act of instant composition.

Smart Art Short Film Making Seminar - Creative Talent Management

Burnley College | 18.00 – 19.00 Another session of this exciting seminar from Host Speaker Kevin Furber of Creative Talent Management (see earlier in the programme).

Come and enjoy the music together with some special guests performing spoken word and poetry between the musical acts.

This session is aimed at hobbyists / professionals.

TS | FREE | Drinks available to buy

TS | FREE

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Sat 29 SEPt Smart Art Short Film Competition Registration Burnley Central Library | 9.30 – 12.30 Briefings every 30 minutes.

Participants in the Smart-Art short film making competition must register their place in the competition during this session.

The Suffrage and Empowerment of Women, Street Theatre

Participants will receive media passes, a filming briefing, together with helpful tips, tricks and full details of the Literary Festival programme.

TS | FREE participants must register if entering competition

- Burnley College Sixth Form and UCLan Theatre & Performance Students

Market Square | 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, 15.00 (30 mins) Live street theatre incorporating a mixture of dramatic genres to tell the story of the suffragette movement and contemporary women’s empowerment.

JTU | FREE

How to be a

Wizard Witch or a

The Whale Charter Walk Shopping Centre, Events Area, St James’s St (by McDonalds), 10.00 - 16.00

11-11.45am and 12–12.45pm Sat 29th Sept

FREE FOR KIDS

(Performances throughout the day) Step inside this huge whale to watch some brilliantly animated storytelling performances.

Wands and brooms will be provided!

JTU | FREE

How to be a Wizard or a Witch - A Princess to Your Door

Poetry Map of the World Transform Crafts | 10.00 - 15.00

Burnley Market | 11.00 – 11.45 | 12.00 - 12.45

Pop in to go on a poetic journey!

Join Harry and his wizarding friends on a spellbinding adventure of magic training and broomstick lessons! Children will experience a magical workshop, training them to be real witches and wizards..

JTU | FREE

TS | FREE

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Land Of Nod

- Burnley Youth Theatre Burnley Central Library | 11.00, 14.00 / Ages 0 to 5 Join Nod on his magical journey where his imagination can take him anywhere deep into the beautiful sea of dew where the colourful fish live, or high into the night sky to play amongst the stars.

A beautiful sensory storytelling show exploring the magic of bedtime and the beauty of children’s imagination. Inspired by the poem Wynken, Blynken and Nod by Eugene Field. 40m performance plus post show sensory workshop.

JTU | FREE

Anarchist poets and Burnley Wood communes:

Boggarts & How to Trick Them

‘1968’ counterculture around Burnley & East Lancs

- Storytelling Trail, Ursula Holden-Gill.

- Mike Waite, Tina Morris, Bruce Wilkinson

Meet at Burnley Mechanics Basement Studio 12.00 – 13.00 | Ages12+ Small gnome like creatures called Boggarts have been living wild on the moors around here since before time began. For centuries they managed to exist peaceably alongside humans. But gradually humans over farmed the moors, burnt them, built on them and polluted them with their factories and so the Boggarts got angry and became more goblinesque. They set about sneaking down into town and causing a right rumpus. Quick to shapeshift, slippery in their speech and fast on their humungous hairy feet so their pranks all look like your fault, the stories you’ll hear on this Boggarts & How to Trick Them Trail around Burnley town centre won’t only protect you from the wily ways of these halflings but will also teach you how to identify, outwit and even befriend one!

Burnley Central Library | 11.30 – 12.45 The ‘summer of love’ and radical counter-culture didn’t just happen at the Woodstock music festival or amongst student protestors in Paris. ‘1968’ and its promise of alternative lifestyles and new progressive values drew in young people in Burnley and Blackburn.

The culture and politics of East Lancashire were enlivened by theatrical ‘happenings’ on the streets, and a lively subculture of poetry readings and little magazines. Poet Tina Morris joins cultural historian Bruce Wilkinson and Chair Mike Waite for discussion, reminiscence and declarations, touching on a 1960s obscenity trial in Blackburn, and the beginnings of local co-operative housing and environmental politics.

TS | FREE

Award-winning storyteller Ursula Holden-Gill will (weather permitting) host this fantastic trail around the town centre. Please wear suitable clothing. In the event of bad weather the session will take place inside the Basement Studio.

Land of Nod Creative Activities - Burnley Youth Theatre Burnley Central Library | 12.00 – 14.00 (drop-in) A creative play workshop for all the family to enjoy!

You will meet Nod and see his toys, talk about his adventures and join in some fun craft activities.

TS | FREE

JTU | FREE

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Sylvia Plath Beyond Confession Talk plus Q&A by Theresa Sowerby

Burnley Central Library | 13.30 – 14.30 The Plath/Hughes myth with its drama and controversy is still a hot topic. Indeed it’s a wonder this unquiet American can rest in her Heptonstall grave. Okay, so she perhaps invites it with poems called Daddy, comparing her Dad to a Nazi and the vengeful Lady Lazarus but, in gasping at the sensational confessions, it is easy to overlook the amazing expertise behind this unique voice, innovative and forward-looking. Plath was a woman who wrote about being a woman but most of all she was and is a great poet. Follow Plath’s journey through the often shocking early poems to the wonderful imagery and transformation of the later work with this fascinating talk.

Old McDonald & The Three Pigs Plus

TS | FREE

Booster Cushion Theatre for Children The Mall (by Clintons) | 12.15, 15.15

The Three Pigs are fed up with singing “Eee aye eee aye oh!” every day and bravely decide to move away from Old McDonald’s farm. Join the kind farmer and all of their animal friends in helping the little pigs build homes of their own, but beware, the big bad Wolf is on the prowl. Can you help save the day and stop the wolf blowing all the pigs hard work away?

This comical retelling of the traditional tale is told through a 5m wide book with pop ups, the ArtCar and lots of audience participation.

Film Club: Grandpa’s Great Escape

JTU | FREE

Burnley Central Library | Doors 13.30, Film 14.00

Book folding class

Burnley Central Library proudly presents a special edition of its Film Club for Burnley Literary Festival 2018.

Krafty Cow Tearoom |13.00 – 14.00 Get creative with book pages and see what amazing things you can make!

David Walliams’ popular book ‘Grandpa’s Great Escape’ has been made for the big screen and stars Tom Courtenay, Jennifer Saunders and David Walliams.

£3 per head to cover materials Book in advance with venue as places are limited.

Guests will be able to enjoy this film for free in the newly refurbished Crib on the first floor of the library.

TS | Cert (U) | Running time 71 mins | FREE

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Dr Seuss Themed Afternoon Tea

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Burnley Mechanics Bistro 13.30 sitting | 14.15 storytelling

Burnley Mechanics Basement Studio | 14.00 – 15.00

- A Princess to Your Door

- Ursula Holden Gill Holden-Gill Brand new for 2018! With her own dynamic version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, award winning storyteller Ursula takes up the plays poignant themes of arranged marriage, rebellion, awakening and acceptance and presents them in an insightful and thoroughly uplifting retelling of the Shakespeare classic, in plain English (apart from a peppering of verse) and with bags of mischief & jaw dropping background into the significance of all the old midsummer mayhem..

There’s cheeky family fun at Burnley Mechanics as they open their doors for an afternoon tea with a difference. Who can resist the opportunity to indulge in a Dr Seuss themed feast with added mischief and mayhem? The Cat in the Hat and Thing 1 will make sure diners’ every need is met, then, once everyone’s bellies are full, they’ll read their story.

With a menu of Sally and Conrad’s Sandwich Selection, Dr Seuss’s savoury bites and Fish’s chocolate fondue platter this event promises to be lots of good fun that is funny…and The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about that!

TS | FREE

Afternoon Tea for two from £9.95 BM | BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Sylvia Plath – Beyond Confession, Poetry workshop - Theresa Sowerby Burnley Central Library | 14.30 – 16.30 This workshop is open to all to have fun and challenge yourself in a supportive group. The session will focus on some of Plath’s poetic techniques, using her work as a starting point to inspire responses. It will include writing exercises to get into the spirit and experience some of the ways in which words can shape our thoughts.

Author Hamzah Malik Burnley Mechanics, Basement Studio | 15:30 – 16.30 Hamzah told his little sister a bedtime story 9 years ago, and she requested he write it down. 8 years later, during a university degree, a full-time job and building his own business, he finished ‘Arias Archer & the Shadow Cloak’. This dark fantasy novel book has been written during some of the worst and best times of Hamzah’s life, and revolves around a brother’s love for his sister. For an unfiltered view of what it’s like to write a book and push it to publication, Hamzah would be honoured to see you at his talk.

Performance poetry is now a thriving industry but Sylvia Plath was there first so in the workshop we’ll also be trying our hand at spoken word.

There will be opportunities for those who wish to share your work and receive some feedback.

TS | FREE

TS | FREE

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©Martin Figura

Author Jenn Ashworth

Locks: A Memoir Ashleigh Nugent

Burnley Mechanics Basement Studio | 16.45 – 17.30 plus Q&A

One Sixty | 18.00 – 19.00 What happens when a mixed race lad from Northern England finds himself in a Jamaican prison? He is beaten and abused and, most annoyingly, he is referred to as ‘white man’. In this session Ash will be performing extracts from his memoir and discussing themes from the book including the tensions that arise when we rely too heavily on simplistic binaries (particularly race, sexuality and gender) to define our identities.

Before becoming a writer, Jenn Ashworth worked as a librarian in prison. Her first novel A Kind of Intimacy was published in 2009 and won an award. In 2011 she was featured on BBC’s The Culture Show as one of the UK’s 12 best new writers. Jenn has also published short fiction and won an ward for her blog Every Day I Lie a Little. Her work has been compared to Ruth Rendell and Patricia Highsmith. All her novels to date have been set in the North of England. She lives in Lancashire and teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Jenn has recently writer After the Funeral, the Crawl featuring in the Lancashire edition of Hometown Tales.

Please be advised: this session is for adults only and may include language and terms some people may find offensive.

TS | FREE | Food and drink available to buy

TS| FREE

Express Yourself!

Open-mic night

Fast Fiction Workshop - with Gaynor Jones

- Short stories, poetry, spoken word

The Shift Café NB 1st Floor Venue | 18.00 – 19.00 | Doors 17.00 for a quiet meet up, chat and brew

The Shift Café NB 1st Floor Venue | 19.00 – 21.00 The Shift Café will have a warm and comfortable open mic setting. Participants of the earlier workshop are welcome to showcase their work but this session is open to everyone. If you love poetry and spoken word you will love this, and if you don’t know what it’s all about – come and find out! Poets, artists and anyone who wants to freely express themselves can use the platform, or you can just come along, watch and be entertained.

Pens at the ready for this swift and snappy creative workshop with award winning short fiction writer Gaynor Jones. You’ll be given ideas and inspiration to create a new piece, in a friendly and supportive environment. And there’s more – we’d love you to perform your piece at an open-mic night immediately following the workshop! Perfect for anyone from first time writers to experienced performers looking for new ideas.

JTU | FREE | Drinks available to buy

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Sun 30 SEPT COME ALONG TO OUR

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Sunday 30th September, 12pm - 5pm

In Situ presents

Pop-Up Cinema: The Piano 25th Anniversary edition

Little Barista | 19:30 – 22:00 (Doors at 19:00)

A magical day of professional storytelling

The winner of the Palme D’Or at the Cannes film festival and multi-Oscar winner, ‘The Piano’ will be specially screened as part of Burnley Literary Festival to celebrate 25 years of this Jane Campion classic.

Culturapedia presents

Storytelling Day

Starring Holly Hunter (‘The Big Stick’ and ‘Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?’), Harvey Keitel (‘Mean Streets’) and Sam Neill (‘Dead Calm’, ‘Sirens’, and ‘Jurassic Park’) as well as Anna Paquin (‘X-Men’ and ‘True Blood’), ‘The Piano’ is set in New Zealand’s wilderness as Ada McGrath, a mute woman, and her daughter Flora, arrive from Scotland to start a new life with frontiersman Alistair Stewart having been sold to him by her father.

Burnley Mechanics Theatre | 12.00 – 17.00 Come along to The Mechanics for a magical day of professional storytelling. Indulge your imagination and witness some of the best storytellers in the business bring their enchanting tales to life - and learn how you can do the same!

Nick Hennessey will take you on an enchanted adventure, Cindylou Taylor-Turner will fill your heads with magic, and David Heslop will teach you how to storyboard your own TV tale!

Ada, a talented pianist, and Flora take an immediate dislike to Alistair when he refuses to carry Ada’s beloved piano and sells it to his overseer, George Baines. Both Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin received Oscars for their roles in this masterpiece, written, directed and produced by Jane Campion.

This amazing event will include a special commission of storytelling performances from the Young Mechanics.

‘The Piano’ is a must see movie. It will move you, challenge you, and ultimately enrich you.

Aimed at children aged 4 - 10 yrs old and their families.

TS | FREE | Food and drink available to buy

Drop-in anytime.

JTU | FREE

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Around the World in 80 Games

KARVAN ‘together we travel’

- Steve McCluskie Kelly’s Café & Bar | 12.30 – 13.30

The Mall (by Clintons) | 12.00 – 16.00

Kickabout in town centre Events space (outside Kelly’s Café & Bar) from 12.00

Drop-in to the artistically renovated caravan for journeys around the world through story and poetry with the ‘Lit Trip Advisor’. All you need to pack is a desire to travel off the beaten track and a compass which never settles in a single direction.

Marhaba!

Steve has embarked on an adventure - taking a football, jumpers for goalposts, and having a kick-a-about with people in villages, towns and cities around the world. Setting out in the spring of 2016, he has so far completed over 40 games in many countries, including New Zealand, Japan, China, Vietnam, Colombia, Costa Rica, the USA and Cuba. The 80th game will be on the local Rossendale recreation ground where he first played.

JTU | FREE JUST DROP IN

Heaven’s Rage: From Book to Film

Burnley Central Library | 12.30 – 14.00 Author Leslie Tate and director Mark Crane discuss how they turned Leslie’s LGBTQ memoir Heaven’s Rage into an award-winning film shown at 18 international festivals. This interactive session includes readings, showing the film, a display of props and Q & A.

Importantly, through interviewing players after these games, Steve has met some of the most humbling, inspiring and life-affirming people of my life. He feels compelled to tell their stories and highlight the incredible work that selfless individuals and organisations are doing out there to support their fellow human beings. Steve is writing a book and a blog about his travels and the people he has met. At this session Steve will talk about his experiences, the people he has met and what he has learned along the way.

‘Leslie Tate’s memoir is an elegy for a lost childhood, a tribute to the power of literature and a demand for the right to identity… There is a raw candour to his struggles with alcohol and coming out as transgender, but there is no self-pity.’ Jonathan Ruppin, Judge for the Costa, Guardian First Book, Geoffrey Faber and Desmond Elliott Prizes.

TS | FREE

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Songwriting from Start to Finish

Tyrone Guthrie in WW2: From Dunkirk to Burnley -

Christopher Fitz-Simon Session facilitated and supported by Burnley Historical Society.

The Shift Café (please note this is a first floor venue) 13.00 – 14.00 Learn how to write a song. It doesn’t matter whether you can sing or play an instrument, you can still write a song. You don’t need to come with anything... except an open mind! All ages welcome.

Burnley Central Library | 14.30 – 15.20 plus Q&A Christopher Fitz-Simon’s recent book “Rise Above!” ([Lilliput Press) – selected private letters from Tyrone Guthrie to members of his family – discloses an exceptionally talented, energetic and (in spite of the privations and heartbreaks of wartime) entertaining writer whose mantra in periods of struggle was ‘rise above!” Guthrie was acknowledged as the most innovative director of the time, rescuing Shakespeare from over-elaborate staging and declamatory acting.

His descriptions of Burnley – its buildings its people and its surroundings – evoke a now forgotten and vibrant past. “ Deliciously indiscreet and blisteringly honest. “ – The Stage. “Dazzling.“ – Irish Times”

TS | FREE

Stephen John Hartley - Painting Snails…A Rock & Roll Doctor’s Tale One Sixty | 14.00 – 15.00 Stephen John Hartley is best known as the guitarist in iconic Burnley punk band NOTSENSIBLES. In Painting Snails, he uses the annual cycle of his hillside allotment as a framework to tell his incredible story – from busker to A&E consultant.

There’s an engineering apprenticeship; a DIY record label; a VW split screen; a 50s tractor; letterpress & woodblock printing; trips to America and more along the way.

TS | FREE

Debbie Jane Williams: From Professor Dumbledore to Professor of Publishing

Told with compassion and vernacular wit, it’s a story of challenging the norm with fierce determination and an unflinching DIY spirit. There’ll be a free exclusive letterpress-printed souvenir and limited edition Notsensibles and Eli Records products on sale.

Burnley Central Library | 15.45 – 16.45 Debbie Williams is Associate Professor of Publishing at UCLan after working for many years in the book and publishing industry. Debbie was the Children’s Book Buyer for Waterstones Head Office where she coordinated the buying, event and project management of many important books including Harry Potter. Debbie has established the world’s first and only student-led, student-run publishing house, UCLan Publishing.

TS | FREE

‘Snipits’ Poetry Taster Class

Debbie continues to take a lead in the publishing industry and regularly works with industry partners such as HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Egmont, BookTrust and New Writing North to further important research into the impact of reading, particularly in the Early Years. Debbie has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts.

Transform Crafts | 14.00 – 16.00 Come and join this free, fun and easy poetry class.

At this session you will be given an envelope of words ‘snipits’ which you can use with connecting words to make a poem. Examples and support will be provided.

You will be able to take a copy home with you and your work will also be added to the Poetry Map of the World which will be on display for a week.

At this session Debbie will talk about her different experiences working in books and publishing, publishing as a career, and will take a Q&A.

TS | Places limited

TS | FREE

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An Evening of Poetry & Spoken Word

Ribble Valley Stanza Group and Calderdale Poets Illuminati | 19.00 – 21.00 Phil Burton, multi-award winning spoken word artist of Ribble Valley Stanza group will host this brilliant poetry and spoken word filled evening. You will hear from talented readers from both groups.

TS | FREE | Drinks available to buy

Robert Welbourn Burnley Central Library | 17.00 – 18.00 Leeds based author Robert Welbourn talks about his debut novel Ideal Angels. The book follows the whirlwind romance of a young, newly infatuated couple, and all the ups and downs that befall them.

From the highest highs to the lowest lows, it’s a rollercoaster of a ride. Hear the author discuss the book, including how he wrote it and why, what inspired it, and how it came to be published.

You’ll be able to purchase a copy of the novel, and have it signed by the author.

TS | FREE In Situ presents

Pie, Peas & A Side of Tales

Pop-Up Cinema: Orlando

- Burnley Mechanics Community Promoters Burnley Mechanics Theatre (Front Room) | 19.00

One Sixty | 16.00 – 18.00

Join us for a cosy evening of magical and mythical storytelling all served up with a traditional Lancashire pie and pea supper.

Young nobleman Orlando is commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to stay forever young. Miraculously, he does just that. This film follows him as he moves through several centuries of British history, experiencing a variety of lives and relationships along the way, and even changing sex.

Tickets £14.50 (includes Pie and Peas Supper of either Meat & Potato or Cheese & Onion) BOOK WITH MECHANICS BOX OFFICE

Directed by Sally Potter, from the book by Virginia Woolf. Running time: 1hr 34min

BM | BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Food and drink available to buy.

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Best & Worst Books:

Mon 1 Oct

A Book Club with a Difference

Words Words Words

Burnley Central Library | 11.00 – 12.00 Do you have a favourite book? The best book you’ve ever read? A book you never tire of reading, that changed you, or simply helps you to relax?

Burnley Central Library Local High School students willl take part in creative workshops at Burnley Central Library. The workshops encourage students to develop their confidence in communicating their feelings to others, and covers poetry to performance.

Private schools event

Do you have a least favourite book? The worst book you’ve ever read? A book that upset you, made you angry, or that you wish you’d never picked up to read in the first place?

Expectatio (Leave them wanting more...)

Come along to this relaxed and informal Book Club session, bring your best and/or worst book and talk about what it means to you.

Persuasive Writing Workshop, 2BR’s Pete McLean Burnley Central Library | 10.30 –12.00 Never use the word “nice”. Avoid clichés like the plague. Write what you know about.

All welcome. If you don’t want to talk about your best / worst book but are interested in books and others’ experiences of reading, do come along to listen.

From primary school to university, we’re told all the things we shouldn’t do while we’re writing. But when it comes to being persuasive, the power of cliché and contrivance are some of your strongest tools. Let your readers do the heavy lifting and then whip the rug out from beneath them. Expect the unexpected.

TS | FREE | Hot drinks provided.

©Donna Craddock

TS | FREE

Author Mike Smith

Burnley Community Kitchen | 11.00 – 12.00 After working in engineering in Burnley, Mike Smith became a lecturer, teaching in several colleges of further education; Nelson and Colne and Burnley locally, and further afield in London and Merseyside before joining the Open University and later working for the University of Manchester in the School of Engineering.

Mike’s first book, Tommy Boyle, Broken Hero, was self-published in 2011. Broken Hero is a biography of Thomas William Boyle, the Burnley captain from 1911 to 1922, who was the first Burnley captain to lift both the FA Cup AND First Division championship trophies. Mike’s second book, “The Road To Glory” published in 2014 gives an in-depth background to Burnley’s FA Cup exploits between 1890 until 1914, the year the Clarets won the FA Cup in front of King George V. Mike is currently working with fellow author Dave Thomas on a biography of former Burnley Chairman, Bob Lord which will be published in September 2019 by Pitch Publishing.

Mike lives in Burnley and is also a keen film maker.

A Burnley Anthem: Community Songwriting Workshop

Jay Stansfield. The Mall (by Clintons) | 12.00 - 16.00 Let Jay take your name and micro-story, feelings and opinions and weave them into a song for the people of Burnley throughout the day. Jay will play his guitar and sing it back to you on the spot and later take it into the studio to be professionally recorded and released on Spotify across the world!

Be part of an anthem.

JTU | FREE

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Lunchtime Crime & Dine

Creating Characters Workshop - Stephanie Buick

Iain McGhie, Burnley College The Palazzo (please note this is on the balcony level of the restaurant) 12.30 – 13.30

Calico Community Room | 14.00 – 16.00 At the heart of all memorable stories are intriguing yet believable characters. Your reader may keep reading to find out what happens but it’s your characters who stay with them afterwards. In this fun workshop, Stephanie will show you how to reveal your character’s secrets, fears and motivations. We will look at ways to use internal and external conflict to push your character’s development forward; how to use dialogue to reveal character, and how to maintain reader empathy, particularly when your character’s flaws come to the surface. Suitable for writers of all abilities. Bring a pen, paper and your imagination.

Enjoy slices of pizza whilst you learn about writing crime fiction. With exciting and thought provoking writing exercises to help you develop key characters and a narrative for writing a crime fiction story.

TS | FREE | BOOKING ESSENTIAL

TS | FREE | BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Poet Julian Turner Calico Community w | 12.45 – 13.30 Julian Turner lives and works in West Yorkshire, as a counsellor – until 2010 he was the Chief Executive of mental-health charity Leeds Mind, and his poetry frequently explores these issues.

Turner’s ‘affecting, memorable and original’ poems (TLS) were shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection with Crossing the Outskirts, and his Planet-Struck was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Desolate Market (July 2018) is his most ambitious and urgent work to date.

Split into four sections, the book variously ranges across aspects of the world and time, local and universal, exploring imagined geographies from now and long ago; the experiences of the mad and the totalitarian dreams of despots; the corrosive influence of markets on individuals and societies, including redundancy, poverty, terrorism, and the degradation of care.

Alice Broadway In conversation Atrium, Burnley College | 14.00 – 15.00 Alice Broadway is the author of Ink and its 2018 sequel, Spark.

Ink was one of the breakout, bestselling Young Adult fiction debuts of 2017 and has been longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, shortlisted in the Books Are My Bag YA category and shortlisted for the Waterstones’ Children’s Book Prize 2018. A runaway international rights success: Alice’s ‘Skin’ trilogy has sold into fifteen territories to date.

TS | FREE

At this session Alice will talk about how she got into writing, the inspiration for her work and read from her successful books.

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Taking Over The Radio: Make Your Own Podcasts

Summats Up, Down & Across

Derek Webster Burnley College | 15.30 – 17.00

Lancashire Women’s Voices

Burnley Mechanics Theatre | 19.00

2018 is the year of the podcast as more and more people make their own radio programmes.

Now everyone can be a broadcaster using every day technology to stream online and reach new listeners.

Lancashire Women’s Centre Players present a series of monologues telling of shared experiences of women - sometimes touching, often humorous, always genuine tales from the heart.

The performances will raise awareness, raise a laugh, raise an eyebrow and also raise vital funds.

Discover how to make your own podcast in an interactive workshop at the new Burnley College Radio studio, with advice on writing for radio - including microphone technique, sound editing, copyright and legal advice. Plus the basic technology needed to get you started.

Tickets £5 | Proceeds to Lancashire Women’s Centres BOOK WITH MECHANICS BOX OFFICE BM | BOOKING ESSENTIAL

Derek Webster has been a familiar voice on North West radio since he started his professional career at Lancashire’s first commercial station, Red Rose Radio in 1982. Since then he has worked at Jazz FM, Century Radio, Smooth Radio and Lancashire’s 2BR. He now manages Burnley College Radio.

Listen to Burnley College Radio at burnleycollegeradio.co.uk TS | FREE

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In association with 2BR & Burnley College

“There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people...mystery writers and serial killers. I’m the kind that pays better.”

Richard Castle Crime is now the biggest-selling genre in books. You might enjoy reading it, but can you write a crime fiction story? Are you the next James Patterson or Val McDermid? Now’s your chance to try.

We are inviting you to submit a crime fiction short story (max. 500 words) which must include a crime, a location or setting, a criminal, a detective, and a narrative/overarching plot. The best story will be turned into an audiobook by 2BR and uploaded onto iTunes!

Closing date midnight 15th October 2018.

SHORT FILM MAKING COMPETITION

Submit your entry (one per person) with a separate cover note containing your name, address, contact number and email address to info@burnleyliteraryfestival.co.uk or by post to Burnley Literary Festival Crime Fiction Competition, Burnley Council, Parker Lane Offices, Burnley, BB11 2BY. Please mark your entry ‘Burnley Literary Festival Crime Fiction Competition’.

Open to anyone aged 16+

In association with Creative Talent Management we are offering you the opportunity to become a short film maker using just your smartphone or tablet! You must register to take part on Saturday 29 September at Burnley Central Library (see the programme for more details).

We would like you to make a short film of Burnley Literary Festival which showcases the sessions, the venues and the town centre. The best film will win an amazing prize and you’ll learn lots of skills and techniques along the way.

Introductory seminars are scheduled on Friday 28 Sept to help you on your way and you can receive help with editing from experts in this field.

For more information visit: facebook.com/SmartArtBurnley Closing date midnight 15th October 2018

Full terms & conditions for all competitions available at burnleyliteraryfestival.co.uk

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Beyond the Festival...

Our bigger than ever Festival goes beyond Burnley town centre plus there’s more to do beyond the four days!

In Conversation with Gill Watson and Esther Menell

Book Illustrations Exhibition

– Tales of debauchery from London’s last great publishing house – Andre Deutsch Ltd

Towneley Hall, BB11 3RQ | 29 & 30 Sept 12.00 – 17.00 A selection from the Hardcastle collection purchased for Townley Hall in 1927. The collection includes illustrations for children’s and adult books and features artists such as Louis Wain, Harry Rountree and Phiz.

The Lawrence Hotel, 26-28 Church St, Padham BB12 8HG 28 Sept | 19.30 – 21.00 (drinks from 19.00) Gill Watson tells of her time at Andre Deutsch where the shenanigans of the basement publicity department were a stark contrast to the upstairs editorial with its Oxbridge editors and cloak and fedora wearing MD, Tom Rosenthal. Esther Menell, the upstairs to Gill’s downstairs, worked for thirty years at Andre Deutsch. Her encounters include Norman Mailer (a distant cousin), whose obscenities nearly cost Esther her job.

Exhibition runs from 9 July. £5 for 12 month pass. Contact Towneley Hall for more details.

‘Loose Connections’ by Esther Menell (account of Andre Deutsch) will be available for sale at the event.

Please be advised: this session is for adults only and may include language and themes some people may find offensive.

Platters and refreshments available to buy.

TS | FREE

The Padiham Writes Project - Celebration & Presentation Evening

Bring Your Favourite Book

Mooch Café, 87 Burnley Rd, Padham BB12 8BL 29 Sept | 18.00 – 19.30

Open reading session Padiham Library, Padiham Town Hall, Burnley Rd, BB12 8BS | 29 Sept | 11.00 – 11.45

At this showcase event, participants of The Padiham Writes Project will present the short stories and poetry they have developed over the previous three weeks, inspired by Padiham and its heritage.

Bring along your favourite book to this session and we will read extracts from them.

This project is part of the Padiham Townscape Heritage project and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Suitable for all children.

TS | FREE

Limited places available.

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Literary Events

St Stephen’s Church, Burnley BB11 3JA

St Stephen’s Church organise literary events for children & families throughout the year, and are organising events as part of Burnley Literary Festival, including Pirates Day on Sat 29 Sept.

See ststephenschurchburnley.org.uk for more info.

PAGES -Short Story Reading Group Padiham Library | 13.00 – 15.00 1st Oct & every Monday Join this lively Short Story Reading Group each Monday - read and discuss a story and have a brew and a chat.

JTU | FREE

Burnley Historical Society Local history lectures St. John’s R. C. Church Hall, Ivy St, Burnley 19.15 2nd Thurs of each month (Sept – Apr) One of the main aims of the society is to publish books and pamphlets on a wide variety of local history topics. The Society has an annual journal called “Retrospect” and publishes 3 Newsletters a year. Twice a year excursions are made to places of historical interest.

Austentatious The Improvised Jane Austen Novel Burnley Mechanics Theatre | 18 Oct 19.30

Visitors are welcome at £2 a head and new members are welcome at £10 per year (£5 for students).

Austentatious is an improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country’s quickest comedy performers – no two shows are the same!

BM | BOOKING ESSENTIAL | Tickets £16.50, concessions £15

Best & Worst Books: A Book Club with a Difference Burnley Central Library | 11.00 – 12.00 First Monday of the month Come along to this relaxed and informal Book Club session, bring your best and/or worst book and talk about what it means to you.

Tabby McTat

JTU

Burnley Mechanics Theatre | 16 Oct 11.30 / 13.30 The book by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler brought to life.

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Shakespeare for Schools Festival Burnley Mechanics Theatre | 21 Nov 19.00 Shakespeare’s Schools Foundation presents the world’s largest youth drama festival – a series of unique abridged Shakespeare productions by local schools.

BM | BOOKING ESSENTIAL | Tickets £9.75 concessions £7.75 groups of 10 or more £6.50

Coming soon: Lego Club – Create, Share, Play!

Burnley Central Library Lego Club aims to inspire and engage your child’s imagination and creativity! Come along and build with Lego bricks, display your own creations, read Lego books, watch Lego movies in our viewing ‘pods’ and play Lego video games. Ideal for children and families.

See lancashire.gov.uk/events for more details.

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How to book Many of our sessions don’t have to be booked in advance, but you might find it helpful to avoid disappointment on the day if any session is oversubscribed. Where booking is essential this will be indicated in this programme.

Unfortunately sometimes things change with our programme through circumstances beyond our control. Keep up to date with the programme via the website.

TS - Book via Ticket Source www.ticketsource.co.uk/ burnleyliteraryfestival

BM - Book with Mechanics Box Office www.burnleymechanics.co.uk or tel: 01282 664400

JTU - Just Turn Up, no booking required

How to get here Burnley Town Centre is easily accessible by road, rail and bus.

For more information: Visit : burnleyliteraryfestival.co.uk Call : 01282 425011 ext 3329 / 3146

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Email: info@burnleyliteraryfestival.co.uk

STOCKS MASSEY BEQUEST FUND

This programme has been produced with the kind support of Tesco Burnley

Š Burnley Council 2018. Job_15129. creative-council.net

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