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VIDEO: Festivals Going Digital: Do or Die
Have a watch of this recap from our first live Association webinar. If you’re a member of the Association you can watch the full session here in our forum.
Our second webinar 'Crossing Cultures and Embracing Diversity' took place on Tuesday 28 July. If you missed it you can also catch up with that session in our forum.
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Literary News Roundup - Our Highlights this Week - 06 August 2020
Elif Shafak launches How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division at Cambridge Literary Festival this month, Penguin Live kicks off with Zadie Smith and Intimations this evening, Graham Norton joins Dublin Book Festival lineup and more.
- Elif Shafak to launch new title How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division at 7pm Cambridge Literary Festival event on 27th August in conversation with New Statesman Deputy Editor Tom Gatti.
- Dublin Book Festival welcomes Graham Norton to its 2020 programme on 4 October which is set to include a range of pre-recorded and live online events from 27November to December all accessible via their website.
- Islay Book Festival moves from its Scottish whisky island backdrop to a digital landscape for its 2020 programme from 27 to 30 August. Headliners include Alexander McCall Smith and Sally Magnusson.
- 'We assume writing for adults is the pinnacle, but what book changed your life?' asks Murder Most Unladylike author Robin Stevens in this Guardian interview – from daring plot twists in her latest book inspired by Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile, to her obsession with Dianna Wynne Jones, and why telling stories is an honour.
- The Financial Times festival of ideas goes digital with its ‘FTWeekend Festival’ from 3 to 5 September. You can look at the full three-day programme here, which includes hundreds of speakers from Dr. Anthony Fauci to Natasha Tretheway and beyond.
- The Ohioana Book Festival welcomes over 140 authors digitally from 28 to 31 August. Organised by the Ohioana Library Association you can find out more about this US festival here.
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LATEST NEWS & BLOGS
It's coming up sunflowers for Istanbul International Literature Festival
After being unable to host its March festival, Istanbul International Literature Festival staged a digital event this week on its original theme of ‘sunflower literature’ - from 15 June until 19 June - events fittingly end with David Nicholls discussing Sweet Sorrow.
Virtually the Same - Or Is It?
As festivals whose dates are later this year or early next, decide on the shape their events might take what’s to be learned from those first movers who were forced to become the ‘early adopters’ of the latest tech?
A Winter Wonderland of Online Programming - Auckland Writers' Festival - 3 May 26 July
The 20th anniversary edition of the Auckland Writers’ Festival was due to take place from 12 to 17 May this year and like many of us, the Festival has had to move their best laid birthday plans online.
