Felixstowe Book Festival...2013

Felixstowe is to have its very own Book Festival and I’d love you to be involved.
Felixstowe Book festival will happen 15th and 16th June 2013.
I know that’s a long time to wait but please get involved right now.
Fuller details are below but this is what we would like to find out from you :very soon.:

• Suggestions of authors you would love to hear talk.
• Names of authors you have really enjoyed hearing giving talks.
• Other types of reading related events you would enjoy.
• If you are a writer what would you like to learn in a writer’s workshop?
• Suggestions of /Offers of sponsorship in kind ( web design, advertising, volunteering )

VENUES
We are thrilled to have been offered 2 lovely rooms at The Orwell Hotel
The Write the Blurb Bookshop and the library have offered us spaces as well.

FORMAT
Over the weekend we hope to have author events all day on both Saturday and Sunday including some for children.
Before the weekend we would like to have other one off events to raise the profile of the Felixstowe Book Festival. We want to get local schools, youth groups and other organisations involved.
The idea is that this should be the first of an ongoing annual event involving the whole town in a celebration of books and writing.

THEME
“A sense of place” This doesn’t have to be Felixstowe or Suffolk but would include any writers who evoke a strong sense of place in their work.

EVENTS- ideas so far
• Authors talking about their work.
• Writing workshop
• Anthology reading- writings about Felixstowe/ Suffolk – reading groups would be invited to choose appropriate poems or passages and to weave them into a public reading.
• Speed dating for books! 7 minutes to introduce your favourite book to someone else and make them want to read it!
• A platform for unpublished authors to try out their work on a friendly public.
• Children’s author and story telling
• Competition for children’s writing
• Author signings and book stall.

As well as offering a literary feast to people who already love books we want to involve as wide a variety of the community as possible in the inspiration, healing properties and sheer pleasure of reading.

TICKET PRICES
We aim to keep ticket prices as low as possible and to offer concessions.
We will also need people to person the doors at the talks in return for free tickets
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If you can help now with ideas of authors etc please contact me.
Meg Reid

meg@megreid.co.uk