This is Literature, Bristol Style

Walk into any bookshop, Discord server, or late-night Tumblr thread and you’ll feel it immediately: fandom isn’t just a readership, it’s a neighborhood. Few worlds show this better than Harry Potter. Nearly three decades on, the series still recruits new readers by the cohort (over 600…

Walk a reader through a stone corridor—prefects whispering, house banners stirring—and they’ll know where they are. The school story has been a cornerstone of children’s and YA fiction for more than a century, centering friendship, rivalry, rules, and growth in a bounded world with its own…

After more than a decade since the original trilogy, the world of The Hunger Games is returning to Panem for a new tale – and this time it centers on fan-favorite Haymitch Abernathy. Suzanne Collins’s upcoming fifth book, Sunrise on the Reaping, will follow the 50th…

LONDON, UK – In a thrilling announcement that has sent waves of excitement through the literary world, renowned author J. K. Rowling has revealed plans for a new Harry Potter prequel series. The series will delve into the mysterious past of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and…

We’re so looking forward to this year’s festival, we wanted to let you know what’s in store as soon as we could. For 2015, we’ve brought together a collective of very different writers with very different voices to build a calendar of events for everyone –…

In this our fourth year, we’re going low-key while we catch our breath after three big festivals in a row. We’ll be hosting a compact collection of performances, showcases and socials across the weekend of Friday 10th to Sunday 12th October 2014. We’ll have guests from Bristol,…