Malton Literature Festival 2011

Aug. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- The North Yorkshire market town of Malton will come to life with literary events with the three-day festival celebrating prose and poetry. Ryedale writer and national bestseller Mike Pannett will be opening the festival on Friday 21 October. His first book Now Than Lad... was published in 2008, was serialised in the Daily Mail and broke the newspaper’s book club record, outselling any other book they had serialised. Mike will be reading from his latest book, Just the Job, Lad.

Luke Wright, “One of the funniest and most brilliant poets of his generation” (The Independent), will be performing his sell-out show from the Edinburgh Fringe, providing inspiration for budding performance poets to compete in Ryedale’s first slam poetry competition, hosted by award-winning poet and writer Andy Humphrey.

Author and teacher Andy Seed will read from his first volume of his entertaining memoirs All Teachers Great and Small, published in July 2011 by Headline. Andy will also be conducting a performance and poetry workshop for 7-11 year olds.

Following his appearance at the Edinburgh Book Festival, poet and author André Mangeot will present an evening of poetry and prose, reading from his best-selling poetry collection Mixer and his short story anthologies.

Adrian Plass, the well-known writer and speaker who has published more than 30 books in the last 20 years, including his best-selling The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, a gentle satire on the modern church, is another of the featured authors attending the festival.

The festival will be headquartered in The Milton Rooms, which will be the site of a major book fair where regional publishers and self-published authors will be able to sell and promote their books direct to the public. There will also be exhibitions by self-publishing companies and panel presentations on writing, self-publishing and publishing.

There will again be a Short Story and Poetry Writing Competition, open nationally to adults and young writers, with cash prizes for the winners. All winning entries and highly commended entries will be published in a book celebrating the festival.

The Malton Literature festival is being organised by the We Love Malton Events group and the private publishing company, Vivalogue Ltd. The principal sponsor for the event is the Malton Amenity Community Interest Company with additional support from Ryedale District Council.
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NOTES TO EDITORS:

For further information see www.maltonliteraturefestival.co.uk
or contact the festival co-ordinator:
Kilmeny Jane Denny 01904 749038 or admin@vivalogue.com

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Vivalogue Limited is a private publishing company based in the UK and Canada. We specialise in preparing professional quality, short-run books for private clients. Services include ghost-writing, editing, proof-reading, book design and printing.