Submissions are now open for storytellers, authors and performers to apply to take part in our Yorkshire Festival of Story 2023 programme. The two-week festival will take place online and in-person in North Yorkshire in November 2023.
Throughout the festival we will be responding to the provocation, ‘If stories and fairy tales speak truth to power, how can they help us to achieve justice in the world?’
If you or a storyteller/author you represent would like to be part of YFOS23, please keep reading to find out how to share the details with us.
About YFOS:
- We are the largest free storytelling festival in the world and reach more than 20,000 people each year through our online, in-person and hybrid festival events.
- We programme storytelling events for adults and children as well as a series of workshops, panel events and presentations.
- We have been proud to welcome literary powerhouses Ben Okri OBE, Joanne Harris MBE and Kevin Crossley-Holland as previous Festival Guest Directors and we are delighted to announce eminent fairy tale scholar Professor Jack Zipes as our Festival Guest Director for 2023.
- In previous years we’ve also attracted big names such as the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen, Sir Michael Morpurgo, Dame Marina Warner, Laura Simms, Mara Menzies, Mya-Rose Craig (Birdgirl), Alan Garner and Dame Jenni Murray.
- YFOS is run by the team behind arts charity Settle Stories, based in North Yorkshire.
- For the second year running we’re partnering with Bookshop.org and Gardners Books to sell books online and in-person.
If you would like to be a part of YFOS23, please complete our online submission form by clicking here or copying & pasting the following link into your browser: https://settlestories.
Have a question about programming or want to contact us directly? Email us at info@settlestories.org.uk.
Please note that while we consider every submission we receive, we are a very small team and are sadly unable to respond to every submission.
***Submissions deadline: 1st May at 6pm***
Thank you!
