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We’re delighted to have entered a new relationship with Wotton Arts Festival, which takes place each April at our nearest market town of Wotton-under-Edge.

Next year, Wotton Arts Festival will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, and its committee has invited Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival to be a part of it by providing an outreach literary event.

After an initial meeting, it’s been agreed that we will actually provide two events as part of its 2020 programme:

• a historical novelists’ debate on the theme “My era’s better than yours” – a lively panel of authors each championing the era in which their books are set
• a children’s Meet the Author event enabling young people to talk to authors writing for their age group

Each of these events will be managed by HULF Director Debbie Young, with historical novelist Lucienne Boyce chairing the debate and children’s author Kate Frost (who also writes for adults) directing the children’s activities. More details, including the names of other participating authors, will be announced nearer the time. Both events will take place on Saturday 2nd May, exactly a week after HULF 2020.

For more information about Wotton Arts Festival, a week-long programme of events that takes place late April/early May and its impressive forty-nine year history, visit its website: www.wottonartsfestival.org.uk.