A weekend of organised mayhem in a magical Papakata Tent; a children’s den on a massive scale! With hands-on science sessions courtesy of Eureka, Musical Storytimes for the littles ones and an array of award winning authors for all ages, come along for what is set to be a wickedly fun filled weekend. Sun 9 [...]
Attendees of the Yorkshire Business Market 2011 showed off their dark sides with some fantastic entries for our 10 Word Crime Story Competition! After much deliberation Erica, Literary Festivals Manager, judged the winner to be Andrew Geldart for his story: Old Pete’s contorted corpse was behind the pop-up banner – stabbed! Andrew wins 2 tickets to the Special [...]
Brand new for 2011, the Harrogate International Summer Festival will include a curated programme of literature events with a broad range and appeal in some of the most magnificent venues Harrogate has to offer. Our 2011 Literature Curator is Henry Sutton, author, journalist and books editor of the Daily Mirror. The impressive line up so [...]
This weekend saw the opening of the Harrogate International Festival Town Centre Box Office opposite the train station on Victoria Shopping Centre piazza. The Town Centre Box Office is open 7 days a week between 11am and 3pm. You can buy tickets for all Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival events as well for all [...]
The brightest and best of Britain’s crime writing fraternity flocked to Harrogate this weekend for the announcement of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. As Mark Billingham’s novel Death Message beat strong competition to scoop this sought after prize on the opening night of the 2009 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing [...]
Harrogate International Festivals won the Arts & Business Sustainability Award, Yorkshire for T&R Theakston’s sponsorship of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival.