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S Alisbur Y Lit Erar Y Fes Tiv Al 17 SALISBURY LITERARY FESTIVAL 17TH - 22ND OCTOBER 2018 The Salisbury WELCOME Story Prize The aims of the festival are: Firstly, the festival is one with a strong local content that supports and celebrates local writing. There are many great writers past and present, from the Salisbury area. We want to showcase their work and, through initiatives like the Salisbury Story Prize, encourage the next generation of writers as well. 2018 Secondly, the festival is one that is predominantly www.salisburyliteraryfestival.co.uk fiction-based. We want a festival that focuses on creative writing over memoirs and celebrity-led books. I’m thrilled to be introducing this brochure for the second year of the Salisbury Literary Thirdly, the festival is one that is focused on both Festival. Following the success of the inaugural readers and writers. The Salisbury Writing Circle is To celebrate the return of the Salisbury Literary Festival, event last year, we return with an exciting about creative writing and we want this festival to we are delighted to launch the Salisbury Story Prize 2018. and expanded 2018 programme featuring have a practical element that supports writers. bestselling and award-winning authors for both adults and children. Fourthly, we want the festival to be as inclusive and Entries are invited on the themes of umbrellas or doves in the as accessible to all as possible. Once again, we have following categories… Over the following pages, you will see that we kept ticket prices low, with concessions for those on have three fantastic headliners: Val McDermid, benefits and under-25s, as well as offering a number of Matt Haig and Jonathan Coe. Our Salisbury free events. Greats series is back, which this year focuses on the work of Dorothy L Sayers and Thomas It has been a difficult year for the city of Salisbury, Kristin Hardy. And, given the events in Salisbury but what the festival schedule shows is that Salisbury a S te p Primary School Aged 4-11 h earlier this year, we welcome Charles has so much to celebrate. The festival is part of e n s o Cumming, Mick Herron and Mark Urban, to what makes Salisbury thrive, and we very much look Supported by Guest Judge: Kristina Stephenson, author & illustrator of the bestselling n offer context and insight. forward to welcoming you to our wonderful city. ‘Sir Charlie Stinky Socks’ series. Secondary School Aged 12-18 Salisbury Literary Festival is a not-for-profit organisation, run by a dedicated team of local as Guest Judge: Emily Thomas, author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel, m o h volunteers. It is led by members of Salisbury T CMYK primary logo and strapline – shadow version Mud, described as Adrian Mole meets I Capture The Castle. y l i Writing Circle, the largest writing group in m Primary School and Secondary School prizes are: First prize £50 to be spent E South Wiltshire with 160 members and a in Waterstones for both the winner and the winner’s school. regular attendance of 30 to 40 participants each month. Director, Salisbury Literary Festival Adult Cl ai re F Guest Judge: Claire Fuller, bestselling author of Our Endless Numbered Days, u l Festival Director l Tom Bromley e Swimming Lessons & Bitter Orange. r Digital Media Russell Mardell PR / Sponsorship Christine Nielsen-Craig First Prize and Runner up: A place on the Professional Writing Academy’s Festival Finance Marion Dundee ‘Writing Crime Fiction’ online course (worth £295) Children’s Events Jo Boyles Sponsorship Gina Gough Entry to the competition is FREE. Submit your stories (max 500 words) by 30 September 2018 Bookseller, author events Sarum College Bookshop Salisbury Story Prize to www.salisburyliteraryfestival.co.uk. Full details of terms and conditions can be found online. Charlotte Phillips Book Fairy Dave Key Logo Design Neil Smith Brochure design Phamie MacDonald, Fizzy Lemonade Design Patrons Mark Dawson, Barney Norris and Kristina Stephenson 17-22 Follow us Booklet printing Salisbury Printing October SalisburyLitFest @salslitfest Photograph of Tom Bromley, courtesy of Paul Clifton Photography 2018 @salslitfest #salslitfest18 Salfes_2018_A5_FINAL.indd 1 30/07/2018 22:21 BOOKING & INFORMATION VAL MCDERMID SALISBURY LITERARY FESTIVAL - 17TH - 22ND OCTOBER 2018 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17 19:30 EVENTS RANGE FROM FREE ENTRY TO £15 SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, THE CLOSE, SALISBURY SP1 2EJ CONCESSIONS AVAILABLE £7 (CONCESSIONS £5) To purchase tickets and for all the latest information on the festival, please visit our website: salisburyliteraryfestival.co.uk. For queries, please email: [email protected] There are also a small number of tickets available from Sarum College Bookshop. Limited B&B is available at Sarum College. Please call 01722 424800 and quote SLF for a festival discount. Useful addresses Salisbury Tourist Information Fish Row, Salisbury SP1 1EJ Information on parking in Salisbury wiltshire.gov.uk/parking-salisbury Travel, accommodation and things to do in Salisbury visitwiltshire.co.uk/salisbury Situated in Central Southern England, Salisbury is about 75 miles from Heathrow Airport and 90 miles southwest of London in the historic county of Wiltshire. Public transport links to Salisbury are excellent with frequent train services to and from Salisbury. There are direct trains to London, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter. For details and a timetable visit southwesternrailway.com Bookshops in Salisbury Waterstones, 7-9 High Street, Salisbury SP1 2NJ Image © Fraser Rice 2018 The Works, The Maltings, 31-32 Priory Square, Salisbury SP1 1BD Oxfam Bookshop, 10 Catherine Street, Salisbury SP1 2DA The History Bookshop, 98 Fisherton Street, SP2 7QY We are delighted to open this year’s festival Sarum College Bookshop, 19 The Close, Salisbury SP1 2EE by welcoming Val McDermid, one of the UK’s most popular writers, to the beautiful Salisbury Cathedral. With a string of number one bestsellers spread over her four main series, Val is the author of 27 novels, short stories, and non-fiction, as well as a prize-winning children’s book. Her novels have been translated into 40 languages and have sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Among her many awards are the Portico Prize for Fiction, the LA Times Book Prize, the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award and the SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BY Cartier Diamond Dagger. THE SOUTH WILTSHIRE Her latest novel, Broken Ground, was published RECOVERY in August 2018. COORDINATING Image courtesy of Ash Mills © 2018 GROUP 4 5 MATT HAIG JONATHAN COE SATURDAY OCTOBER 20 19:30 SUNDAY OCTOBER 21 19:30 SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, THE CLOSE, SALISBURY SP1 2EJ SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, THE CLOSE, SALISBURY SP1 2EJ £7 (CONCESSIONS £5) £7 (CONCESSIONS £5) Matt Haig is a bestselling writer of both Jonathan Coe’s first novel, The Accidental fiction and non-fiction, and also the Woman, was published in 1987 and award-winning author of a number of since then he has written a string of children’s titles. His novels include: How To critically-acclaimed titles, including, What Stop Time, The Radleys, and The Humans. a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep and The His memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, Rotters’ Club, which was turned into a which described his battles dealing with BBC TV series. Among his many literary depression, was a Sunday Times number awards, he has won the Prix du Meilleur one bestseller and was in the top ten Livre Étranger, the Prix Médicis Étranger, charts for 49 weeks. the Bollinger Everyman Prize and the Samuel Johnson Prize. His latest novel, This year sees the publication of the follow Middle England, the third volume of The up, Notes on a Nervous Planet, which Rotters’ Club trilogy, will be published in focuses on ways to cope with stress and November. anxiety in the modern world. This title went straight to number one in UK non- Jonathan will be in conversation with fiction hardback charts. author and Salisbury Literary Festival Patron, Barney Norris. SPONSORED BY SPONSORED BY SUPPORTED BY THE SOUTH WILTSHIRE RECOVERY COORDINATING GROUP Image © Kan Lailey 2018 6 7 MARTIN EDWARDS (DOROTHY L. SAYERS EVENT) MARK DAWSON & ANDY MASLEN THURSDAY OCTOBER 18 19:00 FRIDAY OCTOBER 19 19:00 SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE, MALTHOUSE LANE, SP2 7RA SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE, MALTHOUSE LANE, SP2 7RA £5 (CONCESSIONS £3) £5 (CONCESSIONS £3) Mark Dawson, is the USA Today bestselling author of the John Milton, Beatrix Rose and Isabella Rose series Continuing our series celebrating Salisbury Greats, this of thrillers. A self-publishing sensation, his books have year we welcome Martin Edwards, Chair of The Crime been downloaded more than two million times around Writers’ Association and President of the Detection the world. Mark’s latest John Milton novel, Sleepers, Club, who will be discussing the great crime writer, is published in September. Mark is also a patron of Dorothy L. Sayers, who was a pupil at Godolphin School Salisbury Literary Festival. in Salisbury from 1909 to 1911. Martin will also be talking about the ‘Golden Age of Crime’ which Dorothy Salisbury based author Andy Maslen is the creator of the L. Sayers helped establish. Gabriel Wolfe and Stella Cole series of thrillers. Another self-publishing success story, Andy’s sixth Gabriel Wolfe Salisbury’s Cathedral Hotel features in her debut novel, story, Rattlesnake, was published in February. His Whose Body? and today bears a blue plaque in her latest Gabriel Wolfe thriller, No Further, is published in honour. October. SPONSORED BY SPONSORED BY JOHN CREASEY LITERARY MANAGEMENT MULLEN AND MULLEN CRIME WRITERS’ PANEL CHARLES CUMMING & MICK HERRON THURSDAY OCTOBER 18 20:15 FRIDAY OCTOBER 19 20:15 SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE, MALTHOUSE LANE, SP2 7RA SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE, MALTHOUSE LANE, SP2 7RA £5 (CONCESSIONS £3) £5 (CONCESSIONS £3) Four modern crime writers join us to Two of the leading writers of spy fiction join us discuss their work, and the enduring appeal to talk about their work and offer their take on of the genre.
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