Submissions are open for Yorkshire Festival of Story 2023
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 […]
Winners of the Children’s Story Competition 2022
This year we announced the winners of our Children’s Story Competition 2022 at Yorkshire Festival of Story with our fantastic judge Joanne Harris and in partnership with North Yorkshire County Council and Settle Community Library. We were looking for short stories of up to 750 words that feature a woodland creature or creatures by young […]
Young Reporter Review: Lost & Found at the Falcon Manor
Lost & Found with Elizabeth Garner and Patterson Dipper Yorkshire Festival of Story Sunday 27 November Written by Imogen Royston, aged 13 This Sunday evening, I went down to the Falcon Manor, Settle, to see a live reading of Elizabeth Garner’s new book, Lost & Found. My first impressions of the venue were that it […]
Young Reporter Review: Joanne Harris at Settle Community Library
Yorkshire Festival of Story Saturday 26 November Written by Imogen Royston, aged 13 Joanne Harris is a writer who lives in Yorkshire. Today I went down to Settle Community Library to take part in a writing workshop with her, and I have to say, it was very good. She began by making herself aware of […]
Yorkshire Festival of Story is back!
#YFOS22 4th — 27th November 2022 Free. Online. Everywhere. Book your tickets here “How can we use storytelling to respond to our most urgent threat – the climate emergency?” This is the question driving this year’s Yorkshire Festival of Story. You are invited to explore it with us. YFOS 22 will use epic and fairytales […]
4 storytime activities for the summer holidays
Stuck for ideas on how to keep your kids happy during the summer holidays? We’ve rounded up some of our favourite storytime activities for you to try out. Let us know how you get on by tagging us in your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram posts! 1. Visit your local bookshop or library Nothing beats a […]