The second Milton Keynes Lit Fest is fast approaching.
From Friday 21 to Monday 24 September, the Holiday Inn CMK in Saxon Gate West will again play host to a massive range of local and national writing talent.
MK Lit Fest 2018 builds on last year’s hugely successful debut with a diverse array of writers and performers.
The Festival opens with a Launch Party on Friday 21 Sept, headlined by broadcaster and poet Lemn Sissay The party will also launch of a new MK literary magazine, MinK, containing poetry, short prose, illustrations and comics by writers and artists from the MK postcode area and supported by a recent successful crowdfunding campaign.
Six writers from the magazine will be reading with Lemn during the evening.
Tickets for poet and internet phenomenon Hollie McNish have already sold out, but the Box Office is open for a feast of literary delights:
Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, will read from his forthcoming novel.
Local million-selling self-published crime novelist Adam Croft will talk about achieving his incredible success without a conventional publishing deal.
Journalist Sarfraz Mansour will talk about his memoir of growing up in Luton and being obsessed by Bruce Springsteen, which is currently being made into a film.
YA author Alice Oseman, whose first novel came out when she was only nineteen, will be talking about her third novel I Was Born For This and her webcomic Heartstopper.
Not to forget storytellers Shonaleigh Cumbers and Terrie Howie, a special edition of long-running LGBT+ literary salon Polari, poets Andrew McMillan and Martina Evans, award-winning short story writer Eley Williams, crime writer Stella Duffy, novelists Paul McVeigh and Mary Lynn Bracht, dramatist Bryony Lavery, travel-writer Jasper Winn, and many more.
This year there are also writers’ workshops on Storytelling, Writing for Younger Readers and Creating Characters and a presentation of a new play exploring a hundred years’ of women’s suffrage, ‘Shoulder to Shoulder’ from The Play’s The Thing Theatre Company.
Tickets are on sale now here.
Most tickets are only £5 – or you can get a day-ticket for the Saturday or Sunday for up to eight events for £25.
With help from a grant from MK Community Foundation, the festival can also offer free tickets to 16-25 year-olds and people on low incomes for some events – see www.mklitfest.org/free-tickets for details.
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