IN-PERSON & ONLINE EVENTS

AUTUMN 2021

Ed Balls Gyles Brandreth Susie Dent Sarfraz Manzoor Jackie Kay Anita Rani ilkleylitfest.org.uk AUTUMN 2021 PROGRAMME @ilkleylitfest

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KEY DATES Friends priority booking opens: Tuesday 24 August, 10am General ticket sales open: Tuesday 31 August, 10am Book online: ilkleylitfest.org.uk (24 hours) Book by phone: 01943 816714 Tues 24 August – Thurs 30 September: • Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri: 10am–1pm • Tue: 10am–4pm Fri 1 – Sun 17 October: • Mon – Sun: 10am–12pm

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WELCOME TO THE ILF AUTUMN 2021 PROGRAMME Welcome to our first hybrid We’re very grateful to all the people who have Ilkley Literature Festival! got in touch during the last 18 months to let We are excited (if a little trepidatious!) to be us know being able to access arts events online producing, for the first time this year, a hybrid has opened up an entire world of cultural festival of both in-person and digital events. activities that had previously been closed to Our 2021 Autumn programme comprises 70+ them. While not every event in the programme events including a dedicated digital events will be accessible online this year, we are weekend, ‘live’ in-person interviews, talks and committed to continuing to broaden access to panel discussions with authors, writers and our activities in future years. poets on stage in Ilkley, and the opportunity To everyone who has supported us during to experience some of these live events from the pandemic, whether you made a donation, home via live-streaming. tuned into one of our digital events, When planning this programme, the health participated in an online workshop, or listened and wellbeing of our audiences, writers, to our podcast Settee Seminars – volunteers and staff has been at the forefront THANK YOU! of our minds. You’ll notice some changes We hope you enjoy this year’s festival – in to your experience of attending venues and whatever medium you choose. We’re looking booking your tickets. You can read all about forward to seeing you – in person and online – the measures that will be in place at venues this Autumn. and changes to ticket booking on pages 34 and The ILF Team 36 of this brochure.

CONTENTS

What to Expect at this Year’s Festival 4 Festival Information: Venues 34 Highlight Events 5 Festival Information: Live Streamed & Digital Weekend Events 35 Festival Strands 6 Festival Information: Booking Tickets 36 Festival Friends 7 Festival Information: Booking & Access Info 37 In-Person & Live Streamed Events 9-19 Festival Information: Digital Events 21-26 Box Office & Venues Map 38 Workshops 29-30 Index of Authors 39 Poets in Residence 31-32 Diary at a Glance 40-42 Micro-Commissions 33

For all the latest Festival updates and information go to: ilkleylitfest.org.uk facebook.com/ilkleylitfest @ilkleylitfest #ILF21

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WHAT TO EXPECT AT THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL

IN-PERSON EVENTS We will be hosting in-person events with reduced capacities and distanced seating at two Ilkley venues: All Saints’ Church and the King’s Hall. The full in-person programme starts on page 9. For more information about what to expect at in-person events, see page 34.

LIVE STREAMED Events marked with this logo may also be viewed online via a live stream. For more information about how to book & access live streamed events, see page 35.

DIGITAL WEEKEND EVENTS We are delighted to once again offer audiences a weekend of dedicated digital events, broadcast online throughout Friday 1 – Sunday 3 October. To view our full programme of digital events, see pages 21–25. For more information about how to book and access digital events, see page 35.

WORKSHOPS A mix of in-person and online workshops are available this year. Led by academics, poets and writers, topics will range from creative writing and mentoring to preparing and marketing poems for publication. To view our full workshop programme, see pages 29–30.

HOW WE’RE MAKING ILF COVID SAFE To keep our audience, authors, volunteers and staff safe, we’ve introduced a range of measures to make our events and venues COVID-friendly. For more information, see page 34.

HOW TO BOOK TICKETS The booking process, including seating and how you’ll receive your tickets, has changed this year. For more information, see pages 36–38.

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Ed Balls: Appetite Sarfraz Manzoor: They Susie Dent: Word Perfect Friday 1 October Saturday 9 October Sunday 10 October, 7.30–8.30pm 12.30–1.30pm 2–3pm £15/12 concessions £15/12 concessions £15/12 concessions Page 9 Page 12 Page 14P

Bernardine Evaristo: Jackie Kay: Bessie Smith Gyles Brandreth: Manifesto Friday 15 October Odd Boy Out Thursday 14 October 7.30–8.30pm Saturday 16 October 7.30–8.30pm, £15/12 concessions £10/7 concessions 12.30–1.30pm, £15/12 concessions Page 15 Page 15 Page 16

Anita Rani: Miles Jupp & Lissa Evans: Funny Fiction The Right Sort of Girl Sunday 17 October Saturday 16 October 12.30–1.30pm 7.30–8.30pm £15/12 concessions £15/12 concessions Page 17 Page 17

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Unreliable Narratives Over the past decade, there has been an increasing amount of information available to digest. From people sharing their opinions on social media, to news and media outlets saturating our screens. Who and what should we believe? The ILF 2021 programme tackles these questions, from unreliable narrators in crime thrillers, to how historical sources affect our understanding of history, and more.

Belonging We all like to belong. Whether it’s to a religion, a country, a community, a political movement, a family or a book club. But what does it mean to belong, and what happens when we don’t feel that sense of belonging? Explore these questions and the concept of belonging in discussions around migration, heritage, history, identity and society, through novels, poetry, non-fiction and commissions.

Pioneering Women Anne Lister blazed a trail for lesbian and queer women. Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first woman to be nominated for the US Presidency by a

major political party. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a poet, abolitionist, Special and activist for children’s rights. ILF 2021 looks at the lives of these and Autumn other pioneering women through fiction and biography, examining how 2021 they paved the way for others and brought change to the world. Exclusive

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We want to say a special thank you to the Friends of the Ilkley Literature Festival, without whom we would not be able to develop and produce so much of the work we do. Throughout the past year, your ongoing support has been more important than ever, and we are so grateful for your generosity. Membership starts from just £25 per year and entitles you to a range of benefits, including: • A special priority booking period before tickets for the October Festival go on sale • Invitations to two Friends events during the year • Friends exclusive newsletters throughout the year

FREE ACCESS TO DIGITAL WEEKEND EVENTS Special This Autumn, to show our appreciation for your support over the last two Autumn 2021 years, we are offering Friends free access to our pre-recorded Digital Exclusive Weekend events.* If you want access to all the events in our Digital Weekend for free, become a Friend of the Festival. To view the Digital Weekend Programme, see pages 21-25. * Tickets are free to pre-recorded events, but booking is required. Free access does not cover LIVE STREAMED EVENTS.

FRIENDS PRIORITY BOOKING Friends Priority Booking opens Tuesday 24 August and sales open to the general public Tuesday 31 August. If you are interested in becoming a Friend of the Festival, you can find out more information: Online: ilkleylitfest.org.uk/support-us By phone: 01943 816714 Email: [email protected]

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Follow the trail between Marsden and Ilkley

Discover nature and poems by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

For more info, visit: ilkleylitfest.org.uk/stanza-stones-trail

Are you a teacher looking for new material? Or a parent or carer trying to entertain your children? Get them excited about reading with our free Story Explorer packs, digitised activity booklets for primary-age children. For more info and to download the packs visit: ilkleylitfest.org.uk/children-young-people/story-explorers Proudly Supported by the Ilkley Book Club IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED EVENTS 

#ILF21 to discussto some of the most The Spy Who Was Left Out Left Who Was The Spy LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE 3. Tim Tate and Trevor and Trevor 3. Tim Tate Barnes: Spies War Cold All Saints’ Church 3–4pm £10/7 concessions documentaryAward-winning journalist investigative filmmaker, Tate and best-selling author Tim Trevor crime novelist is joined by Barnes War of Cold gripping true stories a supposed Polish From history. servicesecret agent passing Soviet the Portland to the West, to secrets ‘illegals’ KGB Ring where Spy under false identitiesoperated the dead. from stolen Tate’s of a wealth on draws in the Cold unpublished primarypreviously true the dramatic tell to sources story Goleniewski, of Michal the ever lost. Barnes’ the West best spy a case thatDead Doubles explores about paranoia justified the West’s and treachery. infiltration 

9 will delve intoAnne Sebba will delve LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE On 19th June 1953, Ethel became the first woman Rosenberg for a crime be executed in the US to to conspiracy other than murder: espionage on behalf of thecommit story is both Ethel’s Union. Soviet War Cold one of a controversial and that of a supportiveconviction mother and courageouswife, loving idealist. a book that biography, her masterly a nation deeply dividedlays bare what happens whenand reveals fear by motivated a government on the rights of its citizens. tramples Ethel Rosenberg Ethel 2. Anne Sebba: All Saints’ Church 12.30–1.30pm £10/7 concessions SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER SATURDAY

£15/12 concessions writer, British broadcaster, Balls and former MP Ed economist 7.30–8.30pm 7.30–8.30pm Interview journalist, filmmaker by Pitt. 2023, Ruth and Chair of Leeds King’s Hall is a memoir with a twist:Appetite part cookbook, part autobiography, a that tells is a recipe each chapter his by cook was taught to Ed story. of and in this celebration mother, good food, family and really love, his to passes he now these recipes as they start children own fly to the tablethe nest. Sitting around us around the world year, after year last recipes may change, but great a lifetime. Ed Balls © NickyEd Johnson Balls: Ed 1. Appetite old when he weeks was just three roast tried his first meal: puréed While pudding. beef and Yorkshire modernperhaps ill-advised by for it worked standards, weaning that moment on,him in 1967. From on food.he was hooked

FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER FRIDAY ilkleylitfest.org.uk ilkleylitfest @ explores three crucial three explores AC Grayling AC 6. AC Grayling:6. AC The Frontiers of Knowledge King’s Hall 7.30–8.30pm £15/12 concessions times, humanity has In recent learnt a vast amount about the But the past and itself. universe, much also learned how have we learn: the science to yet have we per cent just 5 addresses have we pre-history isof the universe; and the newstill being revealed, brainand mind the of neurosciences just beginning. are do we how know, What do we know it, and what do we know And what know? don’t that we learnt about the obstacles we have Bestselling more? knowing to polymath and philosopher AC Grayling of knowledge: at the frontiers areas A historyscience, and psychology. history liferemarkable of science, on earth, and the human mind itself. TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER TUESDAY 

10 (‘Yorkshire Rose, Rose Rose, (‘Yorkshire LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE Ian Duhig © Paul Maddern. Ian Duhig © Paul 5. Ian Duhig with Galsian:Satnam Rosa Alba, Rosa Mundi All Saints’ Church 8–9pm £10/7 concessions Ian in Residence ILF 2021 Poet Alba, Rosa Rosa Duhig premieres Mundi a commission of the World’), The Festival. for Ilkley Literature and prose performance of poetry, the motif of thesong explores and – an image of loveliness rose enfolding complexity. Satnam Galsian, Duhig is joined by a classically-trained musician and singer of Punjabi heritage whose and Western fusions of Eastern central are styles and folk traditions Duhig’sto musical consideration themes of of the 2021 festival’s and narratives unreliable identity, and, Duhig of love lies. This is a work and beauty. hopes, pleasure  FRIDAY 1–SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER 2021 2021 OCTOBER 17 1–SUNDAY FRIDAY

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Hepworth was reproached forHepworth was reproached single-mindedness in her lifetime, with critics and commentators both the artistframing and her work Combining and restrained’. as ‘cool public statements Hepworth’s correspondences, with her private the artist how Clayton explores music, in dance, interests combined contemporary politics, poetry, and the and technology, science ways in which she fused conflicting her art.disciplines into £10/7 concessions HepworthBarbara is now as one of the mostacknowledged important artists of the twentieth Hepworth Gallery curator century. fascinating newEleanor Clayton’s offersbiography a penetrating life, work the remarkable insight into and legacy of this singular artist. 5.30–6.30pm All Saints’ Church Barbara Hepworth Barbara 4. Eleanor Clayton: SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER SATURDAY IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED EVENTS IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED EVENTS  Kimberly , John Whale and Kennaway Lydia #ILF21 LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE Zaffar Kunial of University 9. PoetryLeeds Centre Showcase All Saints’ Church 7.30–9pm £10/7 concessions brings togetherThis showcase a number of from readings poets associated withexceptional of Leeds the thriving University and will also feature Poetry Centre and Ian Duhig in Residence Poet in Residence Poet Apprentice . Rheima Robinson Participating poets include: Eichler, Charlotte , Jeffrey Wainwright Campanello, Zaffar. Kunial FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER FRIDAY  11 Louis Barfe their tells Louis LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE The Morecambe and Wise Show The Morecambe of TV de la crème was the crème light entertainment 1960s the from until the early 1980s. The hardy duo at its heart comedy perennial spanning longevity, had even greater their wartime from decades five to Empire debut at the Liverpool early demise tragically Morecambe’s in 1984. beenOther quality double acts have close to none come and gone, yet the affection in which Morecambe held. In Sunshine andand Wise are , Laughter story howtouching and explores their last after it is that 37 years they to continue television show, of comedy their unique brand work magic. 8. Louis Barfe: Sunshine and Laughter – The Story of Morecambe and Wise All Saints’ Church 7.30–8.30pm £10/7 concessions THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER THURSDAY Dan Jones © Peter Clark Dan Jones © Peter 

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, Jones shows and Thrones Power how successive western powers western successive how stealing – or attracting by thrived – the most valuable resources, of the rest ideas and people from and asks the biggestthe world, Where questions about the West: What made us? from? come did we here? go from do we Where In epic newDan Jones’ history tells us nothing less than the story of came today know we world the how This thousand-year be built. to the ruins from moves adventure city of Rome, of the once-mighty barbarians in AD 410, to by sacked the old between the first contacts and new in the sixteenth worlds the West exploring how century, dominate and came to was rebuilt globe.the entire £10/7 concessions 7.30–8.30pm All Saints’ Church 7. Dan Jones: 7. Power & Thrones & Power

WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER ilkleylitfest.org.uk  ilkleylitfest @ Kololo Hill is set during the Kololo LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE 12. Catherine Menon &12. Shah:Neema Belonging All Saints’ Church 3–4pm £10/7 concessions In this panel discussion, writers Catherine Menon and Neema Shah discuss their debut novels. traces Menon by Monsters Fragile story betrayal of love, one family’s the 1920 to from and redemption of backdrop against the day, present and fallen empires disasters, natural secrets. generational Shah’s Idiexpulsion of Ugandan Asians by an Asian UgandanAmin and follows apart torn are family whose lives in 1972 as they the must leave all the while with a terrible country, the family tear to threatening secret apart. Join these stunning new in voices the shared fiction as they explore themes of home, belonging and family. are different,are 12 they had an alien culture would never accept him.they never accept would Sarfraz © Sarfraz Manzoor Manzoor Sarfraz Manzoor:11. They King’s Hall 12.30–1.30pm £15/12 concessions is a British Manzoor Sarfraz journalist, documentary maker, He and screenwriter. broadcaster Pakistanigrew up in a working-class he – where Muslim family in believe that they to werewas raised different, and people. white They were deeply divided Britain we In today’s they told often are have a different culture andthey a different culture have values and they will never accept This time they arethis country. Muslims. reportage history, together Weaving journeys Manzoor and memoir, of the roots search Britain in around of this division. They is the story of a modern, Muslim Britain as it a powerfulhas never been told, ofand deeply personal exploration a hopeful and a divided country, vision for change. 

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bridges the void between bridges the void Forecast expectations of theour cultural actuallyseasons and what they are of the the march and follows doing, the countryseasons up and down their changing document how to affectpatterns world the natural and all of our lives. has discovered a curious thing: the has discovered changing farBritish seasons are than profoundly far more and faster Daffodils realise. in December, we and in November frogspawn rampage summers so hot wildfires northern the across moors. The changing seasons have shapedThe changing seasons have but what happensall our lives, changes beyondwhen the weather Yorkshire-based recognition? journalist and author Joe Shute £10/7 concessions 12.30–1.30pm Seasons All Saints’ Church – A Diary of the Lost 10. Joe Shute: Forecast10. SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER SATURDAY IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED EVENTS IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED EVENTS 

#ILF21 LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE 15. Franny Moyle: Franny 15. The King’s Painter All Saints’ Church 8–9pm £10/7 concessions Hans Holbein is chiefly celebrated for his beautiful and precisely portraiture. His images ofrealised Henry Thomas VIII, Thomas More, Anne of Cleves and JaneCromwell, define our to Seymour come have court. Yet, of the Tudor perception wasHolbein paintings, beyondthese genius: a humanist,a multifaceted andsatirist, political propagandist the history to of bookcontributor design. and traces Moyle Franny of thisanalyses the life and work extraordinary artist against the and of political turbulence backdrop transformation. cultural 

13 Fiona Sampson Fiona LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE Born in 1806, a time when women nor university attend neither could Browning Elizabeth Barrett vote, female greatest Britain’s remains has inspired poet, whose work Emily Dickinson to from writers Woolf. Eliot and Virginia George Two-In her new biography, , Mirror Way archival recent incorporates a literary giant reveal to discoveries activist for theand a high-profile abolition of slavery who believed heritage; and be of mixed herself to illnesswho defied chronic a writer change disability to and long-term history. of cultural the course 14. Fiona Sampson:14. Elizabeth Barrett Browning All Saints’ Church 5.30–6.30pm £10/7 concessions Paul

, Fascism Stop to How Paul Mason © Jürgen Bauer Mason © Jürgen Paul History us the conditions shows it can fascism, and how that breed But it is overcome. be successfully challenge to in the present us up to it, and time is running out. As we an have we Covid-19, from emerge more a fairer, opportunity create to must ask we do so, To equal society. do what kind of world ourselves: we in? And what are live want to we do about it? going to Mason offers hopeful a radical, and defeatingblueprint for resisting the newright. The book is both far a chilling portrait of contemporary historyfascism and a compelling of the fascist phenomenon: its political roots, psychological theories and genocidal logic. Mason powerfully argues,Fascism, of capitalist failure, is a symptom us throughout and it has haunted centuries.the last two £15/12 concessions In 4–5pm King’s Hall 13. Paul Mason:13. Fascism Stop to How

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER SATURDAY ilkleylitfest.org.uk  ilkleylitfest @ LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE 18. Hugo18. Vickers: All Saints’ Church 7.30–8.30pm £10/7 concessions a dramatic life took Hugo Vickers’ turn in 1979 when the legendary Sir be his him to invited Beaton Cecil Days later, authorised biographer. died, but the journeyBeaton had with was entrusted begun – Vickers papers, diaries and, most Beaton’s his friends to access importantly, The resulting and contemporaries. book, first published in 1985, was a bestseller. In his new in Malice book, shares , Vickers Wonderland his personal diaries from excerpts during this period, includingkept with some of theconversations of the time: figures most interesting Kelly, Grace Princess Margaret, Hepburn, Julie Andrews andAudrey Capote. Truman Malice in Wonderland Malice in THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER 14 THURSDAY 

14 quickly Ince Robin The Importance of Being LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE 17. Robin Ince: Robin 17. ImportanceThe of Being Interested All Saints’ Church 7.30–8.30pm £10/7 concessions Comedian at school,abandoned science a fog of dull lessons by bored of the barrage by and intimidated Ince later, years equations. Twenty one of presents and now fell in love most popular science the world’s podcasts. and witty book, InceIn his erudite isn’t why scientific wonder reveals Filled withjust for the professionals. interviews featuring astronauts, quantum teachers, comedians, andphysicists, neuroscientists more, is an optimistic and Interested why book that explores profound is think science so many wrongly distant and difficult and will leave filled with a thirst for intellectualyou adventure. MONDAY 11 OCTOBER 11 MONDAY

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An event full of unforgettable trueAn event full of unforgettable never be lost for You’ll stories: again. words From ‘Turning a Blind Eye’ – Nelson a Blind Eye’ ‘Turning From his missing to putting the telescope stop to the order ignore eye to why ‘May Day’fighting – to became ‘stealing call, from a distress thunder’ Jack the real to someone’s ‘tartle’the Lad, from (forgetting ‘snaccident’ name) to someone’s eating a whole(unintentionally of biscuits)…packet £15/12 concessions the wonders a wander through Take of the English language with Susie extraordinaire Dent, lexicographer and queen of Countdown’s Dictionary Corner. 2–3pm King’s Hall 16. Susie Dent: Susie 16. Word PerfectWord SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER 10 SUNDAY Susie Dent © Stewart Williams IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED EVENTS IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED EVENTS  #ILF21 LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE 21. Hannah Ross:21. Revolutions All Saints’ Church 12.30–1.30pm £10/7 concessions a factory Hawkins, Alice worker her pedal-powered Leicester, from suffragefight for universal using to women recruit to her bicycle Naarinthe cause; Zahra Hussano and cultural challenged religious ride ataboos in Afghanistan to do the others to and teach bike same; in 1894, Annie ‘Londonderry’ a Latvian immigrant Kopchosky, became the firstliving in Boston, the world, around cycle to woman never having ridden a bikedespite before. the us to introduces Hannah Ross andwho got on their bikes women extraordinary lengths. to travelled SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER 16 SATURDAY 

15 LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE brings to life the tempestuous brings to Presented in partnership withPresented School at Leeds The Grammar All Saints’ Church 7.30–8.30pm £10/7 concessions Jackie National Poet Scotland’s Kay blues singerstory of the greatest Bessiewho ever lived, Smith. Born in 1894, Smith sang on in Tennessee making her before corners street in 1923, which sold first recording and made her a star. 780,000 copies difficult a notoriously Smith lived pints of ‘bathtublife: she drank violent fist fights, hadgin’, got into affairspassionate love with men and singlehandedly and once women, fought off a cohort of the Ku Klux Klan. up Black girl growing As a young Smith Kay found in in Glasgow, someone with whom she could identify and idolise. Kay will be extraordinary talking about Smith’s poet Zaffar. life with fellow Kunial 20. Jackie Kay: Bessie Smith Jackie Kay © Mary McCartney FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER 15 FRIDAY

University of Leeds University Presented in partnership withPresented is Evaristo’s intimate and intimate is Evaristo’s Manifesto she did of how account inspirational let any barriers stand to it, refusing She charts her creative in her way. against the mainstream rebellion the to and her life-long commitment of ‘untold’ exploration imaginative deeply on her own Drawing stories. to she contributes experiences, social around conversations current class,issues feminism, such as race, sexuality and ageing. £15/12 concessions 2019 Booker Evaristo’s Bernardine – a Black woman win – the first by was a revolutionary moment for After and for her. British culture a trailblazing decades as three and activist, she teacher writer, centre to the margins from moved stage. 7.30–8.30pm Manifesto Hall Kings’ 19. Bernardine Evaristo:19.

THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER 14 THURSDAY ilkleylitfest.org.uk  ilkleylitfest @ LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE 24. Matson Taylor: MiseducationThe of Evie Epworth All Saints’ Church 5.30–6.30pm £10/7 concessions debut joyful Matson Taylor’s set comedy is a bittersweet novel village in the in a small Yorkshire summer of 1962. The book follows milk delivery fastest the Evie, girl in her as she navigates East Yorkshire, life – butway out of school and into what kind of life will she choose? and Matson grew up in Yorkshire many local have both he and Evie He’ll be talking aboutconnections. job as a design historian his how the book and, withhelped inspire journalist Yvette Post Yorkshire , discussingHuddleston a broad strong from topics of range book clubs toand celebrity women humour and bringing out Yorkshire a debut in lockdown. 

16 LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE Colin Grant © Dominic Martlew Grant Colin 23. Mosaic: Writers Love Supreme and in Life Art All Saints’ Church 3–4pm £10/7 concessions is a greeting and Love’ ‘Peace Bob Marleypopularised by and Rastafari. Marley believed that important songs were butprotest that love fundamentally proved a of life. It’s root the tap songs are the Hopi in captured notion that’s which means ‘Koyaanisqatsi’, word The Hopi waya life out of balance. portal a love enter to to us invites with and realign our lives rebalance about write do you But how love. its power in ways that convey love and beliefs limited and transcends in the arts?expectations propagated is joined by Cameron Dawn coach the poet and resilience Shamshad Khan, author and poet John Siddique, and the historian of WritersMosaic, and director is discuss love , to how Grant Colin manifest in their writing and what it get aligned. them to takes

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Odd Out Boy Presented in partnership withPresented Stowe Family Law Family Stowe Odd Boy Out is a compellingOdd Boy of childhood – howexploration and ourour heritage, our parents are. us who we upbringing make Expect an event filled with stories career unlikely Brandreth’s from and journalism,in politics, theatre with plenty of entertaining name- along the way!dropping £15/12 concessions is a former MP, Gyles Brandreth actor, novelist, Just A Minute 4’s Radio reporter, of biographer star and acclaimed But most importantly, Philip. Prince for being the is known Brandreth founder of the National Scrabble for hisChampionships, notorious colourful and for once knitwear longest-ever making the world’s dinner speech, lasting twelveafter and a half hours… (this talk will only last 1 hour). 12.30–1.30pm King’s Hall 22. Gyles Bra Gyles Brandreth SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER 16 SATURDAY IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED EVENTS IN-PERSON & LIVE STREAMED EVENTS #ILF21 Top: MIles Jupp. Bottom: Lissa Bottom: Evans MIles Jupp. Top: 27. Miles Jupp & Lissa 27. Evans: Fiction Funny King’s Hall 12.30–1.30pm £15/12 concessions than writingOnly one thing is harder novel a great Writing novel: a great people laugh.that makes Lissa Evans comedy has a stellar most notably as apedigree, Ted. of Father producer/director book, V for VictoryHer latest , furtherdelves the fascinating into familiar of the vivid characters lives of her earlier novels, readers to Heart and Old BaggageCrooked . Miles and comedian writer Actor, is History, a debut novel Jupp’s hilarious and heart-breaking story Jupp schoolteacher. of a frustrated in the for his roles is best known of It and and The Thick Rev sitcoms The News as a host of BBC Radio 4’s Quiz. and Jupp as theyJoin Evans discuss the challenges of creating – and funny – fiction. compelling SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER 17 SUNDAY 

17 You Took the Last Bus Took You for an eventBrian Bilston LIVE STREAMED £ LIVE “If you like a) laughing or b) words a) laughing or b) words like “If you you which rhyme with each other, Richard Brian Bilston.” will love Osman unofficial Poet Join Twitter’s Laureate in which he will discuss and read Alexa, collection, his latest from about love? know to what is there the challenges over fret Hear Bilston the pleasures of modern life, extol politics and over of books, brood ponder the unfathomable mysteries the days to caveman – from of love from He will also read era. internet Diaryhis Costa-shortlisted novel of as his debut a Somebody, as well collection Home. 26. Brian Bilston: Alexa, what is there know to love? about All Saints’ Church 8–9pm £10/7 concessions

This storya second-generation of up northBritish Indian woman is and a life livedalso a tale of tenacity with positivity and humour. Trying to navigate her Indian world navigate to Trying at home and the British world Anita Rani door, outside her front fit in anywhere.was a girl who didn’t standShe was always to destined playing Maryout: from in her otherwise nursery all white nativity up in eighties Yorkshire growing to with her Punjabi family. £15/12 bestselling memoir is Anita Rani’s the story girl who never of a fit in she became.and the woman 7.30– 8.30pm 7.30– King’s Hall 25. Anita Rani: Anita Rani © Jay Brooks The Right Sort Of Girl

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Blinded By The Light is a Greetings from Bury, from Park Greetings Keighley Picture House, 132 North St, 3AF BD21 Keighley, 8–10pm £6.50 Adults, £5.50 Children and Seniors the Keighley book visit To House website Picture Manzoor’s Based on Sarfraz 31. FILM: Blinded31. by the Light (12A) memoir the tells drama this inspirational astory Kalra) (Viveik of Javed descent, of Pakistani British teen in 1987. Amidst up in Luton growing turmoil and economic the racial poetryof , he writes as a of escape the intolerance means to and the inflexibilityhis hometown But when father. of his traditional the him to a classmate introduces Javed Springsteen, music of Bruce his working-class to sees parallels powerful lyrics. life in ‘The Boss’s’ writer/director/producer From (Bend It Like Beckham), hope, story love, joyful of courage, family and the unique ability of lift the human spirit. music to Club Film Keighley by Presented in partnership with Keighley House. Picture info: keighleyfilmclub.com For tickets: For keighley.nm-cinemas.co.uk

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D1. Curtis Sittenfeld & D2. The Walter Swan Maggie Shipstead Lecture: Clara Barley – ONLINE, 7–8pm The Moss House D3. Lauren Oyler: then available on demand until ONLINE, 10–11am Fake Accounts 31 October then available on demand until ONLINE, 11.30am-12.30pm £5 / Free to Friends 31 October then available on demand until Join celebrated US authors Curtis £5 / Free to Friends 31 October Sittenfeld and Maggie Shipstead Clara Barley’s novel reimagines £5 / Free to Friends as they share what inspires them the story of neighbouring Yorkshire Narrated with seductive confidence to tell the stories of determined, landowners, Anne Lister and Ann and subversive wit, Lauren Oyler’s powerful and pioneering women Walker, who find themselves first novel Fake Accounts challenges through their fiction, with author entwined in a passionate, forbidden the way current conversations and critic Erica Wagner. relationship and retreat to Moss about the self and community, Sittenfeld’s Rodham tells the story House, their private sanctuary away delusions and gaslighting, and of a fictionalised version of Hillary from an unaccepting world. fiction and reality play out in the Rodham, former First Lady of the The extraordinary life of Anne Lister Internet Age. United States, and how history has inspired several contemporary Oyler’s essays on books and culture may have been different if she writers, including Sally Wainwright’s have appeared in The New Yorker, had turned down Bill Clinton’s BBC TV series Gentleman Jack. The New York Times Magazine, marriage proposal. Shipstead’s During his career, Walter Swan also Review of Books, The Great Circle, longlisted for the 2021 often wrote about the rich and Guardian and elsewhere. Booker Prize, weaves together fascinating people and places of the astonishing lives of a daredevil Yorkshire. female aviator and the Hollywood Interview by author and journalist actress who plays her on screen. Yvette Huddleston. Presented in partnership with Manchester Literature Festival In association with The Walter Swan Trust and Durham Book Festival.

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Raymond Antrobus © Caleb Femi D5. Our Poet in Residence Presents … D4. Ella Al-Shamahi: ONLINE, 2.30–3.30pm The Handshake – then available on demand until D6. Graeme Macrae A Gripping History 31 October Burnet: Case Study ONLINE, 1–2pm £5 / Free to Friends ONLINE, 4–5pm then available on demand until ILF 2021 Poet in Residence Ian then available on demand until 31 October Duhig curates a showcase featuring 31 October £5 / Free to Friends four of the most exciting and lauded £5 / Free to Friends Friends do it, strangers do it and poets working today to reflect on London, 1965. An unworldly young even chimpanzees do it – and it’s the festival’s themes of ‘belonging’ woman believes that a charismatic not just deeply embedded in our and ‘unreliable narratives’. psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, history and culture, it may even be Raymond Antrobus will be reading has driven her sister to suicide. written in our DNA. from his latest collection All The Intent on confirming her suspicions, The humble handshake has a Names Given, an investigation into she assumes a false identity and rich and surprising history. Join language, miscommunication, place, presents herself to him as a client, palaeoanthropologist Ella Al- and memory. Kayo Chingonyi’s recording her experiences in a series Shamahi as she embarks on a funny new collection A Blood Condition of notebooks. and fascinating voyage of discovery tells a story of the people, places, In Case Study, Booker Prize- – from the handshake’s origins (at cultures and memories that form shortlisted novelist Graeme least seven million years ago) to us. Rachel Long’s debut collection Macrae Burnet presents these its sudden disappearance in March My Darling from the Lions is notebooks interspersed with his 2020. politically conscious, wise, funny own biographical research into and outrageous. Stephen Sexton’s Collins Braithwaite. The result is a Drawing on new research, enchanting Cheryl’s Destinies anthropological insights and first- dazzling meditation on the nature of journeys through pasts, presents sanity, identity and truth itself. hand experience, she’ll reveal how and futures: ‘history is what we Interview by The Telegraph book this most friendly of gestures has call / what might have happened critic Jake Kerridge. played a role in everything from differently / and didn’t’. meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations – and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact.

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Margaret Busby D7. SI Leeds Literary Prize: Behind the Prize – The Judges ONLINE, 5.30–6.30pm D8. Eimear McBride: D9. Bobby Duffy: then available on demand until 31 October Something Out of Place Generations FREE ONLINE, 10–11am Join former Head Judges of the SI ONLINE, 7–8pm then available on demand until Leeds Literary Prize Kadija George then available on demand until 31 October Sesay, and Kerry 31 October £5 / Free to Friends Young for a fascinating insight £5 / Free to Friends Are millennials entitled and lazy? Are into the role of judges in literary In her provocative new essay, baby boomers the most sexually awards as they discuss what judges Something Out of Place, Eimear liberal generation? Was generation are looking for, the challenges of McBride – the author of the X the last group to show loyalty to the judging process and the role of novels A Girl is a Half-formed Thing political parties? Polling expert and prizes in championing new writers. (winner of the 2014 Women’s Prize professor of public policy at King’s Demystifying the process behind for Fiction), The Lesser Bohemians College London, Bobby Duffy the awarding of a major literary and Strange Hotel – unpicks the explores how when we’re born prize, this event looks forward to contradictory forces of disgust and determines our attitudes to money, the 10th anniversary in 2022 of the objectification that control and sex, religion, politics and much else. biennial SI Leeds Literary Prize, an shame women. Revealing and informative, award for unpublished fiction by McBride asks are women still Generations provides a new Black and Asian women writers. damned if we do, damned if framework for understanding the Prize alumni include Mahsuda we don’t? How can we give most divisive issues raging today: Snaith, Amita Murray and last year’s our daughters (and sons) the from gun control to climate change winner, Wenyan Lu. unbounded futures we want for and Brexit to the surveillance state. The SI Leeds Literary Prize is a collaboration them? between SI Leeds, , The Opportunity Centre and Ilkley Literature Festival.

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ilkleylitfest @ informs and Keyes Ralph The Hidden History of Coined D12. Ralph Keyes: The Ralph Keyes: D12. Hidden History of Words Coined ONLINE, 2.30–3.30pm then available on demand until October 31 Friend to £5 / Free that Charles Dickens know Did you added cheesiness the English to language? often word-coinages Successful take their beginnings. We conceal think value and rarely them at face they were about when and where should. but maybe we first minted, In , Words entertains the manyhe explores as have unique ways in which words for accident, – by been created laughs, as insults, or as hoaxes. Interview and poet writer by James Nash.

24 . Kerridge Jake Lying Eyes Eyes Lying a deeply affectingexplores and shot story, love unconventional black humour with anger, through What I Know Mahmood’s and grief. on a I Saw is a thriller that centres whonow-homeless former banker witnessed an impossible murder, of the the consequences and how his confront him to crime force of past and the unreliability vexed his memory. book Interview The Telegraph by critic D11. Imran Mahmood & D11. Jenn Ashworth: 1–2pm ONLINE, then available on demand until October 31 Friends to £5 / Free Jenn AshworthJoin novelists and Mahmood as they discussImran narrators of unreliable the role Ghosted in fiction. Ashworth’s

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Speak, Okinawa, Brina uncovers her mother’s lineage, begins toher mother’s values, andquestion her father’s the personal with theweaves and heart- in a courageous historical the struggle to testament breaking for belonging. In memoir Elizabeth Miki Brina’s of self, investigation is a nuanced Born in thelineage, and inheritance. an Okinawan mother and a1980s to ex-military American, white, father, Brina struggled with the duality of she women As a young her identity. her father in an towards gravitated effort suburban her white fit into to herself and distanced surroundings mother. isolated her already from Brini: Speak, Okinawa ONLINE, 11.30am–12.30pm Friends to £5 / Free D10. Elizabeth MikiD10. October 31 then available on demand until SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER 3 SUNDAY DIGITAL EVENTS WEEKEND ilkleylitfest.org.uk #ILF21 DIGITAL EVENTS WEEKEND EVENTS DIGITAL SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER

Hassan Akkad © Manuel Vazquez D14. Hassan Akkad: Hope Not Fear ONLINE, 5.30–6.30pm then available on demand until D15. Patrick Radden D13. Kate Mosse and 31 October Keefe: Empire of Pain Deborah Moggach: £5 / Free to Friends ONLINE, 7–8pm The Art of Caring From the jasmine-scented streets then available on demand until 31 October ONLINE, 4–5pm of Damascus to uprisings, protest, torture and being forced to flee £5 / Free to Friends then available on demand until his home, Hassan Akkad has 31 October The Sackler name adorned the walls experienced the unimaginable. of many storied cultural institutions £5 / Free to Friends Yet, he still holds on to hope and – Harvard University; New York’s Join international bestselling chooses to see the kindness in Metropolitan Museum of Art; the authors Deborah Moggach and humanity every day. Tate; the Serpentine Gallery; the Kate Mosse as they discuss their Driven by an unshakeable instinct to Louvre. They are one of the richest acclaimed, now decades-long raise awareness, help and connect, families in the world, known for writing careers, and how their Akkad describes both his perilous their lavish donations in the arts experiences caregiving and as journey to the UK – the subject and the sciences. The source of caregivers have made their way into of his BAFTA award-winning film the family fortune? Oxycontin, a their work. Exodus – his life in Syria before the blockbuster painkiller that was a Moggach has written 19 novels, war, and his work as a cleaner on catalyst for the opioid crisis – an several of which have been adapted a London hospital Covid-19 ward, international epidemic of drug for the screen, including Tulip Fever which instigated a government addiction which has killed nearly half and These Foolish Things (filmed U-turn on excluding the families a million people. as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). of NHS cleaners and porters from In Empire of Pain, his masterpiece She will be talking about her two its bereavement compensation of narrative reporting and writing, latest books, The Carer and The scheme. New Yorker staff writer and critically Black Dress. Bridging national and political acclaimed investigative reporter Mosse, who has sold more than divides, Akkad’s humanity, sense Patrick Radden Keefe exhaustively five million copies in 42 languages, of service and ideals bring people documents the jaw-dropping story will be discussing her latest work of together. of a dynasty: a parable of 21st- non-fiction, An Extra Pair of Hands, century greed. in which she tells her personal story Interview by journalist, filmmaker of becoming a middle-aged carer and Chair of Leeds 2023, Ruth Pitt. for her parents. 25 FRIDAY 1–SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER 2021 @ilkleylitfest OTHER DIGITAL EVENTS FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER

Francesca Beard Speaking Volumes Presents… 2021 Walter Swan ‘Not Quite Right For Poetry Prize: Winners Us’: Tales of Today/ Announcement Tomorrow YOUTUBE PREMIERE YOUTUBE PREMIERE 11am then available to view 5.30pm then available to view online until 7 October FREE FREE Celebrate National Poetry Day with Not Quite Right for Us is a stellar the winners of this year’s Walter new anthology which explores the Swan Poetry Prize and listen to many ways we’ve all been made to poetry inspired by the theme of feel ‘not quite right’ at some time ‘The Return’. In this digital event, or another. Francesca Beard, join the Prize judges, Ilkley Literature Nazneen Khan-Østrem, Laniyuk, Festival’s Poet in Residence Ian Nick Makoha and Raman Mundair Duhig and Apprentice Poet in examine today’s unequal world and Residence Rheima Robinson, as re-imagine a better one – if only they comment on their choices, we’re able to shake off the burdens and listen to readings from the first, of the present. This film features second and third prize winning the new poems and prose of these poets in both the main prize and the five acclaimed authors, who dissect 18–25 years subcategory. today’s problems to create a more The Prize is made possible by the kind hopeful tomorrow. support of The Walter Swan Trust. Not Quite Right for Us: Forty Writers Speak Volumes (flipped eye publishers) celebrates ten years of Speaking Volumes. This is a Speaking Volumes production funded by Arts Council England.

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Neema Shah © AlexanderJames Jenn Ashworth John Whale © Paul Maddern WS1. Neema Shah: WS2. Jenn Ashworth: WS3. Preparing Poems Marketing your Work Narration Workshop for Publication with Online Zoom Workshop Online Zoom Workshop John Whale 6.30–8.30pm 2–4pm Clarke Foley Centre £18/12 concessions £18/12 concessions 10.30am–12.30pm In this workshop, Neema Shah will Join author and creative writing £18/12 concessions provide practical tips and guidance lecturer Jenn Ashworth and Director of the University of Leeds on how to market yourself and create a first person narrator with Poetry Centre and co-editor of your writing. You’ll learn the key something to hide; consider how Stand magazine John Whale will principles of promotion including to reveal and conceal motivation; help you prepare your poems how to build an engaged following help the reader read ‘between the for submissions to magazines. on social media and how to lines’ of first person narration, Drawing on his 20 years of editorial build an author brand. Shah will and consider the role of humour, experience, John will help guide demonstrate why marketing isn’t suspense and compassion in you along the route to successful about who shouts the loudest and creating unreliable first person publication. will show how, with a few simple narrators. Workshop participants are asked tips, you can build the tools you Ashworth’s first novel, A Kind of to send 3 or 4 poems prior to the need to take you to publication and Intimacy, was published in 2009 session for shared group discussion. beyond. and won a Betty Trask Award. In 2011 her second, Cold Light, was published by Sceptre. Her most recent novels, The Friday Gospels, Fell and 2021’s Ghosted were published to resounding critical acclaim.

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Ian Duhig © Paul Maddern Rheima Robinson Tanya Shadrick © Dean K Holden WS4. Ian Duhig: WS5. Rheima Robinson: WS6. Tanya Shadrick Identity, Misinformation Poetry & Belonging Mentoring Sessions and Lies in Poetry Online Zoom Workshop FREE VIA PHONE CALL Clarke Foley Centre 5pm–7pm Limited slots available, 1.45–3.45pm £18/12 concessions application only £18/12 concessions Inspired by ILF 2021 programme Selkie Press founder Tanya Participate in a workshop with ILF themes, Rheima Robinson’s Shadrick (a rural working-class 2021 Poet in Residence Ian Duhig. workshop will look at ‘belonging’. writer first published after forty) Participants will discuss turning The participants will engage in will be returning to the festival personal experience into poetry, traditional writing exercises such as to provide six free mentoring how identity is modified into that of freewriting to warm up and create opportunities for those wishing to the poem’s subject or speaker, and material for later use. This will build their creative confidence. the unreliable lyric ‘I’. Understand be followed by further elicitation These sessions are aimed at how the original experience exercises to bring forth emotion emerging writers based in the North changes under the circumstance and memories to help detail the of England, particularly those from of writing, like memories under the story of where they come from. backgrounds which are currently circumstances of recall. The workshop will encourage underrepresented within the participants to find ways of A valuable opportunity to examine cultural sector. Deadline to apply describing and connecting to things and clarify those processes and also for one of these opportunities is and places. receive feedback on a poem from Tues 14th Sept, applicants will be one of the most accomplished and informed by Mon 20th Sept if they inspirational poets working today. have been successful. For more details on how to apply, head to the website.

30 ilkleylitfest.org.uk #ILF21 POETS IN RESIDENCE The Ilkley Literature Festival Poet in Residence is a prestigious position previously held by luminaries such as Colette Bryce, Imtiaz Dharker, Daljit Nagra, Zaffar Kunial and Andrew McMillan. The Apprentice Poet in Residence position is an opportunity for an emerging poet to develop their skills and profile. This year we are delighted to work with two wonderfully talented and nationally recognised poets creating incredible work right here in Yorkshire.

2021 POET IN RESIDENCE IAN DUHIG

Ian became a full-time writer after working with homeless people for fifteen years and has since published seven books of poetry. He has won the Forward Best Poem Prize once, the National Poetry Competition twice, and has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize four times. He is a Cholmondeley Award recipient, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and this year is one of the judges for the Costa Poetry Prize. His next collection, ‘New and Selected Poems’, will be published by Picador in December 2021. Ian continues to work on projects for disadvantaged groups, locally with Leeds Irish Health and Homes and the David Oluwale Memorial Association, and with artists, filmmakers and musicians. His ILF commission, which will be shared in an event with Satnam Galsian, will explore the themes of misinformation, identity and lies through poetry, prose and song. See events 5, 9, D5, WS4.

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2021 APPRENTICE POET IN RESIDENCE RHEIMA ROBINSON Rheima is a poet, educator and facilitator of creative writing workshops. She is the Founding Director of The Sunday Practise, a creative hub and open-mic event based in Leeds. As a poet and speaker, Rheima has appeared at The Chicago Theatre, The Nuyorican Café (NYC), The Historic Hampton House (Miami), and the UK House of Lords. Her poetry can be heard on BBC Radio Leeds, BBC1xtra and BBC iPlayer. She has featured in the award-winning documentary ‘We Are Poets’ and more recently in BBC Four’s ‘Rhyme and Reason’, hosted by Lemn Sissay OBE. She was one of the BBC’s First Words 2020 finalists, and her newly commissioned film with New Creatives, supported by BBC Arts, will be released in summer 2021. In her ILF commission, Rheima documents her grandmother’s journey and memories of arriving in England from Jamaica during the Windrush era. It explores themes of belonging, migration and identity. The commission will be premiered at event 9. See events 9, 32, WS5.

YOUNG WRITERS’ ANTHOLOGY Young Writers is an inclusive group for 12–18-year-olds in which young people explore their love of writing together. Participants are encouraged to try different writing forms, from poetry to prose to playwriting, as well as being introduced to technical aspects of creative writing, such as editing and the art of performance. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the group, we asked Young Writers past and present to participate in creating an anthology of poetry and prose. The finished anthology will launch in October and be available to order online. To find out more about our Young Writers Group, visit our website: ilkleylitfest.org.uk

32 ilkleylitfest.org.uk #ILF21 MICRO-COMMISSIONS Through our micro-commissions, we fund projects that explore new ways of creating and promoting art in the northern region. This year, we are delighted to present six brand-new micro-commissions, presented in a range of artforms, including poetry, short fiction, spoken word and short films. The 2021 micro-commissions respond to the theme of ‘Unreliable Narratives’. Explored within these commissions are the innocent lies of a child, the fake world of social media, what version of history young people are being taught, and how different perspectives can affect someone’s reputation. Micro-commissions by Morgan Sproxton, Mymona Bibi, Naomi Frisby, Richard Ely, Sammy Wright and Sarah Rumfitt. All six micro-commissions will be available to view from Friday 1 October 2021 on our website: ilkleylitfest.org.uk

Right: Sarah Rumfitt Below right: Mymona Bibi Below left: Sammy Wright

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38 ilkleylitfest.org.uk #ILF21 INDEX OF AUTHORS author event no. author event no. author event no. Akkad, Hassan D14 Kennaway, Lydia 9 Shah, Neema 12, WS1 Al-Shamahi, Ella D4 Keyes, Ralph D12 Shipstead, Maggie D1 Antrobus, Raymond D5 Khan, Shamshad 23 Shute, Joe 10 Ashworth, Jenn D11, WS2 Khan-Østrem, Nazneen See pg 26 Siddique, John 23 Balls, Ed 1 Kunial, Zaffar 9 Sittenfeld, Curtis D1 Barfe, Louis 8 Laniyuk See pg 26 Tate, Tim 3 Barley, Clara D2 Long, Rachel D5 Taylor, Matson 24 Barnes, Trevor 3 Macrae Burnet, Graeme D6 Testament 29 Beard, Francesca See pg 26 Mahmood, Imran D11 Vickers, Hugo 18 Bilston, Brian 26 Makoha , Nick See pg 26 Wainwright, Jeffrey 9 Brandreth, Gyles 22 Manzoor, Sarfraz 11, 30, 31 Whale, John 9, WS3 Busby, Margaret D7 Mason, Paul 13 Young, Kerry D7 Campanello, Kimberly 9 McBride, Eimear D8 Chingonyi, Kayo D5 Menon, Catherine 12 Clayton, Eleanor 4 Miki Brina, Elizabeth D10 Dent, Susie 16 Moggach, Deborah D13 Duffy, Bobby D9 Mosse, Kate D13 Duhig, Ian 5, 9, D5, WS4 Moyle, Franny 15 Eichler, Charlotte 9 Mundair, Raman See pg 26 Evans, Lissa 27 Oyler, Lauren D3 Evaristo, Bernardine 19 Radden Keefe, Patrick D15 Galsian, Satnam 5 Rani, Anita 25 George Sesay, Kadija D7 Richards, Steve 28 Grant, Colin 23 Robinson, Rheima 9, 32, WS5 Grayling, AC 6 Ross, Hannah 21 Ince, Robin 17 Sampson, Fiona 14 Jones, Dan 7 Sebba, Anne 2 Jupp, Miles 27 Sexton, Stephen D5 Kay, Jackie 20 Shadrick, Tanya WS6

39 AUTUMN 2021 PROGRAMME @ilkleylitfest FESTIVAL DIARY AT A GLANCE Your quick guide to what’s on, where and when

Digital events Workshop Live streamed events Captioned events Events last one hour unless otherwise stated. How to book page 36–38.

NO. TIME EVENT VENUE FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER Speaking Volumes Presents ‘Not Quite Right for Us’: 5.30pm Online Tales of Today/Tomorrow D1 7.00pm Curtis Sittenfeld & Maggie Shipstead Online King's Hall, Station Road, 1 7.30pm Ed Balls: Appetite Ilkley, LS29 8HB SATURDAY 2 – SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER

WS6 57. Tanya Shadrick Mentoring Sessions Via Phone Call

SATURDAY 2 OCTOBER The Walter Swan Lecture: Clara Barley – D2 10.00am Online The Moss House D3 11.30am Lauren Oyler: Fake Accounts Online All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 2 12.30pm Anne Sebba: Ethel Rosenberg LS29 9DS D4 1.00pm Ella Al-Shamahi: The Handshake – A Gripping History Online

D5 2.30pm Our Poet in Residence Presents… Online All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 3 3.00pm Tim Tate and Trevor Barnes: Cold War Spies LS29 9DS D6 4.00pm Graeme Macrae Burnet: Case Study Online All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 4 5.30pm Eleanor Clayton: Barbara Hepworth LS29 9DS D7 5.30pm SI Leeds Literary Prize: Behind the Prize – The Judges Online

D8 7.00pm Eimear McBride: Something Out of Place Online All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 5 8.00pm Ian Duhig with Satnam Galsian: Rosa Alba, Rosa Mundi LS29 9DS SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER D9 10.00am Bobby Duffy: Generations Online

D10 11.30am Elizabeth Miki Brini: Speak, Okinawa Online

D11 1.00pm Imran Mahmood & Jenn Ashworth: Lying Eyes Online

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SUNDAY 3 OCTOBER D12 2.30pm Ralph Keyes: The Hidden History of Coined Words Online

D13 4.00pm Kate Mosse and Deborah Moggach: The Art of Caring Online

D14 5.30pm Hassan Akkad: Hope Not Fear Online

D15 7.00pm Patrick Radden Keefe: Empire of Pain Online TUESDAY 5 OCTOBER King's Hall, Station Road, 6 7.30pm AC Grayling: The Frontiers of Knowledge Ilkley, LS29 8HB WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 7 7.30pm Dan Jones: Power & Thrones LS29 9DS THURSDAY 7 OCTOBER 11am 2021 Walter Swan Poetry Prize: Winners Announcement Online

WS1 6.30pm Neema Shah: Neema Shah: Marketing your Work Online Louis Barfe: Sunshine and Laughter – All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 8 7.30pm The Story of Morecambe and Wise LS29 9DS FRIDAY 8 OCTOBER All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 9 7.30pm University of Leeds Poetry Centre Showcase LS29 9DS Jam on Top Music Studios, Melbourne House, 29 7.30pm Testament Chesham Street, Keighley, BD21 4LG SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 10 12.30pm Joe Shute: Forecast – A Diary of the Lost Seasons LS29 9DS King's Hall, Station Road, 11 12.30pm Sarfraz Manzoor: They Ilkley, LS29 8HB WS2 2.00pm Jenn Ashworth: Narration Workshop Online All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 12 3.00pm Catherine Menon & Neema Shah: Belonging LS29 9DS King's Hall, Station Road, 13 4.00pm Paul Mason: How to Stop Fascism Ilkley, LS29 8HB Central Hall, Alice Street, 30 5.00pm Sarfraz Manzoor: Modern Muslim Britain Keighley, BD21 3JD Fiona Sampson: Two-Way Mirror – All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 14 5.30pm The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning LS29 9DS Keighley Picture House, 31 8.00pm FILM: Blinded by the Light (12A) 132 North St, Keighley, BD21 3AF All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 15 8.00pm Franny Moyle: The King’s Painter LS29 9DS

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32 1.00pm The Sunday Practise hosted by Rheima Robinson Keighley Creative Space King's Hall, Station Road, 16 2.00pm Susie Dent: Word Perfect Ilkley, LS29 8HB MONDAY 11 OCTOBER All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 17 7.30pm Robin Ince: The Importance of Being Interested LS29 9DS THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 18 7.30pm Hugo Vickers: Malice in Wonderland LS29 9DS King's Hall, Station Road, 19 7.30pm Bernardine Evaristo: Manifesto Ilkley, LS29 8HB FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 20 7.30pm Jackie Kay: Bessie Smith LS29 9DS SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER Clarke Foley Centre, WS3 10.30am Preparing Poems for Publication with John Whale Cunliffe Road, Ilkley, LS29 9DZ All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 21 12.30pm Hannah Ross: Revolutions LS29 9DS King's Hall, Station Road, 22 12.30pm Gyles Brandreth: Odd Boy Out Ilkley, LS29 8HB Clarke Foley Centre, WS4 1.45pm Ian Duhig: Identity, Misinformation and Lies in Poetry Cunliffe Road, Ilkley, LS29 9DZ All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 23 3.00pm Writers Mosaic: Love Supreme in Life and Art LS29 9DS WS5 5.00pm Rheima Robinson: Poetry & Belonging Online All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 24 5.30pm Matson Taylor: The Miseducation of Evie Epworth LS29 9DS King's Hall, Station Road, 25 7.30pm Anita Rani: The Right Sort of Girl Ilkley, LS29 8HB All Saints' Church, Ilkley, 26 8.00pm Brian Bilston: Alexa, what is there to know about love? LS29 9DS SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER King's Hall, Station Road, 27 12.30pm Miles Jupp & Lissa Evans: Funny Fiction Ilkley, LS29 8HB King's Hall, Station Road, 28 4.00pm Steve Richards: The Prime Ministers We Never Had Ilkley, LS29 8HB

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