#literary festival

[toadlett]

this weekend I'll be at CYMERA Festival creator's hall, along with a bunch of freinds! Ready to fight any beasts we come across! I'll have the last of my current batches of t shirts, plus new notebook bundles and loads of books and zines!

Come see me and my pals:

@sticksandsharks

@pppondi

@elljwalker

@quindriepress

[motziedapul]

Our literary festival was featured on the news! 🇵🇭✨ Truly wild to see the Pinoy Monster Anthology series flash onscreen 🙈

[crystalc27]

Sudha Murthy ji at the PILF (Pune International Literary festival) - My notes

My notes from the #PILF - Pune International Literary Festival. Session where Dr. Manjiri Prabhu in conversation with Sudha Murthy ji. @PuneIntLitFest #PuneInternationalLiteraryFestival

The PILF (Pune International Literature Festival) took place on 2nd to 4th December. The 3 day literary festival ( 2 day offline + last day online) had many highlights but, one that stayed was the inauguration conversation with Mrs. Sudha Murthy ji. Sudha Murthy, is an Indian educator, author and philanthropist who is chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. She is married to the co-founder of…

[thenewclassy]

Check out my Rose Glen Literary Festival book haul as well highlights from speakers Jenny Hale and Tala Shatara. https://cheapisthenewclassy.com/2023/02/check-out-my-rose-glen-literary-festival-book-haul.html

[kim4true]

Before Hurricane Helene

[philosophika]

Is anyone thinking of going to the Hay Literary Festival Colombia 2025? ~ ?Alguien está considerando asistir al Hay Literary Festival en Colombia el próximo año? !Quiero ir!

[islandgirl37]

RDP Sunday: Festival- Guanajuato's Festival Internacional Cervantino!

Guanajuato, Mexico celebrates the city’s artistic and literary heritage during its yearly International Cervantes Festival. Beginning in 1972, this year it will be held Fri, Oct 11, 2024 – Sun, Oct 27, 2024. Last year I showed up during the festival, unprepared. I had no idea it was going on. As I wandered around the winding cobblestone streets and passageways of the central area, I continually…

[mediaassociationtt-blog]

Brooklyn Literary Festival honours media veteran Kalipersad

At the conclusion of the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival which ran from September 05-08, NYC Mayor Eric Adams awarded a special citation, the City of New York Certificate of Recognition to journalist Dominic Kalipersad. At the end of the festival, Kalipersad made the following speech. I’m always slightly bewildered when people refer to me as an archivist or an historian. I’m also nearly…

[theotherpages]

Mother of Other Kingdoms

I had the rare opportunity to see and listen to Kai Coggin, Hot Springs Poet Laureate and host/curator of Wednesday Night Poetry live and in person yesterday. She was the poet in residence this weekend as part of the Escribe Aqui / Write Here Festival, hosted at the Betsy Hotel on Miami Beach. This is one of several events in support of Kai's most recent book, Mother of Other Kingdoms:

https://www.amazon.com/Mother-Other-Kingdoms-Kai-Coggin/dp/195724822X

Thanks to Miami-Dade Poet Laureate Caridad Moro-Gronlier for hosting the event. Elizabeth Moro-Gronlier captured full video. I will post a link when it's available.

[bloseroseone]

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[selbookfest]

If you’re a publisher and want to suggest an author for the inaugural SE London BookFest, please note our deadline is 15.03.24. And if you’re a local venue keen to be involved, the deadline is 15.04.24. All enquiries should be emailed to selbookfest@gmail.com

[atompowers]

[bogkeep]

i reread captive prince trilogy for the third or fourth time recently

[modern-prometheus]

"How like a winter

hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! [...]" - William Shakespeare, Sonnet 97

- Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow

"The cold earth slept below;           Above the cold sky shone;                 And all around,                 With a chilling sound, From caves of ice and fields of snow The breath of night like death did flow                 Beneath the sinking moon [...]" - Percy Bysshe Shelley, The cold earth slept below

- Ivan Aivazovsky, Moscow from Sparrow Hills

"And then she saw that there was a light ahead of her; not a few inches away where the back of the wardrobe ought to have been, but a long way off. Something cold and soft was falling on her. A moment later she found that she was standing in the middle of a wood at night-time with snow under her feet and snowflakes falling through the air." - C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

- Vincent van Gogh, Landscape with Snow

"I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. [...]" - Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush

- Walter Moras, Snowy Forest Landscape

Snow, However Cold - still winter

[benoits-neckerchieves]

He’s so adorable getting a front row seat to take pics of his wife 🥹🥹

Daniel Craig supporting his wife Rachel Weisz at the Cliveden Literary Festival in London, 22/09/2024. Source: @ kiana_Weisz on Twitter / X

[emcgoverns]

elizabeth mcgovern attends a reception at the queen’s reading room literary festival at hampton court palace (june 8, 2024) | 📸: chris jackson