An Awesome Austen Event!

Are you an Austen fan? 

Are you THE Austen fan?

Would you like to meet and mingle with other like minded souls?

Then the Bristol Women's Literature Festival is about to make your day...

We’re looking for a young person aged 16-25 who has a passion for Jane Austen to take part in our next event. 

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice remains one of the UK’s best-loved novels 200 years after its publication. And to celebrate the fact, the Bristol Women’s Literature Festival want to invite young people aged 16-25 who love Jane Austen to take part in our film and panel event later on in the year.

We’ll be bringing together novelists, critics and lovers of Austen to explore the importance of her work and to understand why this wonderful novel and the five fabulous Bennett sisters still maintain a hold on our imaginations.

But most excitingly of all, we want you to be on our panel. 

We’re looking for the biggest Austen fan aged 16-25 to join our panel and celebrate Pride and Prejudice with us. All you need to do is tell us why you love Austen, and why you deserve a place in the panel, in 50 words.

If you can prove you’re Austen’s biggest fan, then there’ll be a seat at our table with your name on it.

Simply email sianandcrookedrib[at]gmail[dot]com to tell us in 50 words why you want to be part of the panel before 30 October 2013.

You need to be aged 16-25 to take part and to be free on Tuesday 26th November 2013. Travel and accommodation is not included in the prize.

Remember, follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me I own, and I laugh at them when I can. So make your entries as imaginative, creative and Austen-worthy as possible!

Headingley Literary Festival 2012

Just down the road from #ArcadiaLBC!

Headingley Literary Festival 2012

Started in 2008, this LitFest is run by the Headingley Network - a community organisation that - 

 works to improve the environment and facilities for the local community. The LitFest is run by a group of people who are local to Headingley and our idea is that we develop a literature festival that draws on the strengths of our local community to entertain, enlighten and delight us all. But, while our roots lie in our community, it is also our pleasure to invite and offer hospitality to people of the word from around the country and the world.                                    (from their website!) 

Programme of Events!

With so many different events and activities planned, I'm unlikely to be able to attend as many as I'd wish. Having said that, I'll probably be floating around before our book club on the 18th. 
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