BRADFORD Literature Festival has announced that it will be running a mini festival weekend next month.
The festival runs for 10 days in the Summer, attracting thousands of people to the city centre. Organisers have announced a number of events that will take place as part of its Words in the Winter event on December 7 and 8.
On Saturday 7 crafter extraordinaire Morwenna Catt will be at The Broadway Shopping Centre running free festive family craft sessions from 10am to 5pm.
An “B-Lit” poetry and open mic event will be held at Bread & Roses on North Parade on the Saturday from 5pm to 7pm. It will offer the chance for poets aged between 14 and 19 to perform their work in public.
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On Sunday 9 at 7pm there will be a Now That’s What I Call Poetry event held at Kala Sangam.
Names announced for the event so far include artist, writer and “Instapoet” Nikita Gill, who has over 500,000 followers on Instagram, and T.S. Eliot Prize nominee Roger Robinson.
More names will be announced before the event, which will be “pay as you decide.”
For more information on any of the events, visit bradfordlitfest.co.uk/events
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