Story-book town of Alnwick in Northumberland with its fairytale castle launches a new book and film festival.
Alnwick: where stories to come to life. All happening betwen 24-26th February 2023. Click to book which event you wish to attend, Please note there are a variety of venues hosting this event.
- Headliners crime writers Ann Cleeves and LJ Ross have sold 30 million books
- BBC’s Dr Janina Ramirez Raiders of the Lost Past
- BBC Radio 4. Liz Allard, Book of the Week producer on How to write for radio.
- Michael Heppell, Davina McCall’s life coach on how to write a book’
- In the first year of the Alnwick Story Fest, our aspiration is that Alnwick will be billed as the ‘story town’ of the North.
The Alnwick Story Fest celebrates the power of stories to transform our lives and mood, spark our imagination, inspire new directions, and cheer us all up.
The Alnwick Story Fest invites you to have fun, find new friends, learn new skills and mingle and meet with inspiring writers, film makers, artists and photographers over an exciting weekend in February 2023 on the beautiful Northumberland coast.
“It’s been a tough old time recently and Alnwick is hosting our very first Story Fest to bring our community and visitors together to have fun, make new friends, read books, watch films, listen to writers, poets, film makers and hunker down with stories we love. Our theme this year is ‘transformation’ and our weekend festival is full of interactive events exploring and celebrating stories that uplift and inspire and light up our lives in dark times,” says founder Suzy Walker
Headliners authors
• LJ Ross: LJ Ross is an internationally bestselling crime author, whose books have sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
• Ann Cleeves, OBE, is a bestselling British crime writer, who has sold over 5 million copies. Her books bring to life the characters of Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn, all which have been adapted into TV shows
• Dr Janina Ramirez, presenter of BBC Raiders of the Lost Past.
• Michael Booth, Obama's recommended travel writer
• Michael Heppell, Davina McCall's Life coach
• Liz Allard, Radio 4's award winning producer of book of the week
• Dan Jackson author of bestselling The Northumbrians
• Michael Chaplin, author of bestselling Newcastle United Stole My Heart
And the winner is….
Alnwick Story Fest are delighted to announce the launch of the Northern Film Prize, an award recognising short filmmaking that demonstrates the spirit and heart of the North-East of England, founded and sponsored by the author LJ Ross