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Winter Festival 23-24 November 2024 Spring • Winter • One-Offs Media partner @NewStatesman
Cambridge
Joined July 2009
Book festivals improve our world. And we need your support to flourish. Today we are proud to join eight other UK festivals with a message of our collective impact and shared mission.
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Love to see recent festival authors on the @GuardianBooks’ summer reading list! 📚💛 Including #ColmTóibín, @ArmisteadMaupin, @hishamjmatar, #AnneEnright, whose events you can watch on our CLF Player for just £15 per year:
Beach books at the ready: authors pick their essential summer reads
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RT @StratLitFest: Privilege to be part of the @thebookseller marketing conference talking about the impact of festivals on outreach work, t…
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Don’t miss our friends @BritishAcademy_'s Summer Showcase on 12-13 July 2024, a free festival of ideas #ForCuriousMinds. Be inspired to think differently about the world through engaging exhibits, workshops, talks, film screenings & performances. Explore:
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☀️Summer readin’, had us a blast!☀️ Office books from our Spring Festival. Who are you reading this summer?
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Huge congratulations to the winners of the @WomensPrize for Fiction and Non-Fiction, @V_V_G and @NaomiAKlein! 🏆💐
Together in all their glory! Brotherless Night by @V_V_G winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and Doppelganger by @NaomiAKlein winner of the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction: #WomensPrize With thanks to @audibleuk, @BaileysOfficial and @findmypast
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RT @TrinCollCam: Do you teach creative writing or art to UK students in year 9-11 at a non-fee paying school (or students in receipt of a f…
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RT @Act3Life: “All of us have our plans for the day & they don’t include climate change” depressing , real yet hopeful conversation. Thank…
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🌟SPOTLIGHT: ELIF SHAFAK🌟 To coincide with the publication of an extract of her ‘A Room Of One’s Own Lecture’ in the @NewStatesman, we’re spotlighting the amazing @Elif_Safak The recording of the lecture is currently FREE to watch on our CLF Player💛
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✨Special Bank Holiday offer from our partners the @university_arms✨ Stay at the hotel on Monday 27th May and get 1/3 off the price 🥂 Benefactors & Patrons will get a free upgrade + welcome gift (membership card required) Book
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RT @LucyCavColl: Thank you to @PFDAgents who hosted our judges for the final round of the Lucy Cavendish #FictionPrize. The top prize will…
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RT @HamishH1931: The new novel from ALI SMITH — it’s brilliant. I’ve read it twice — tiny nips and tweaks made yesterday by Ali —and it’s w…
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For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2024 we've collated a selection of events on our CLF Player. With events from novelist & advocate @matthaig1 to neuroscientist @camillalnord's #TheBalancedBrain, understand mental wellbeing via literature💛✨ Explore here:
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RT @BGPrize: On Monday 27 May, be sure not to miss @JohnVaillant speaking to nature writer @RobGMacfarlane about the remarkable story of Fo…
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RT @KatyaTaylor: If you missed my talk with Margaret Drabble last month @camlitfest you can now see it here: Catherine Taylor & Margaret Dr…
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⭐️A brilliant opportunity for writers on years 9-11, the Litmus Project 2024 via @TrinCollCam and launched by our honorary patron Ali Smith!⭐️
The Litmus project 2024, launched by writer Ali Smith, is open for entries! Students in years 9-11 at a state school (or a full scholarship to a fee-paying school) in the UK are invited to contribute on the theme 'Hostile Environment' 📷@camlitfest
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RT @LucyCavColl: The 2024 #Fiction Prize shortlist is out, with a variety of genres and incredible #writing. 📚 🔥 Congratulations to the six…
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RT @Melissa_Benn: Talking to the lovely @CarolineLucas at the recent @camlitfest about her political life, her political future and her ne…
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And SUNDAY at the festival - it's a wrap! Thank you to our wonderful, engaged audiences, our generous and incisive speakers, and our tireless volunteers and staff. We’ve had a blast and we hope you have too! For The Love Of Books. The CLF Team x 💛💛💛
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RT @terry_hayden: Was gutted I was working when @PryorFrancis was talking @camlitfest but the wonderful Christie sorted out a dedicated cop…
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