🌟SPOTLIGHT: ELIF SHAFAK🌟

To coincide with the publication of an extract of her ‘A Room Of One’s Own Lecture’ in the The New Statesman, we’re spotlighting the amazing Elif Shafak

The recording of the lecture is currently FREE to watch on our CLF Player💛

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✨Special Bank Holiday offer from our partners the @university_arms✨

Stay at the hotel on Monday 27th May and get 1/3 off the price 🥂

Benefactors & Patrons will get a free upgrade + welcome gift (membership card required)

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Thank you to Peters Fraser+Dunlop who hosted our judges for the final round of the Lucy Cavendish #FictionPrize .
The top prize will be awarded at the ceremony next week... stay tuned!
Congratulations to all shortlistees! 💫

The new novel from ALI SMITH — it’s brilliant. I’ve read it twice — tiny nips and tweaks made yesterday by Ali —and it’s with the copy-editor now. Coming this October!

For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2024 we've collated a selection of events on our CLF Player.

With events from novelist & advocate Matt Haig to neuroscientist Camilla Nord's #TheBalancedBrain , understand mental wellbeing via literature💛✨

Explore here: cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/clf-player.../

On Monday 27 May, be sure not to miss John Vaillant speaking to nature writer Robert Macfarlane about the remarkable story of Fort McMurray at Cambridge Literary Festival: cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/john-va…  #literature #climate

If you missed my talk with Margaret Drabble last month Cambridge Literary Festival you can now see it here: Catherine Taylor & Margaret Drabble | The Stirrings - Cambridge Literary Festival cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/clf-player/cat…

⭐️A brilliant opportunity for writers on years 9-11, the Litmus Project 2024 via Trinity College and launched by our honorary patron Ali Smith!⭐️

The 2024 #Fiction Prize shortlist is out, with a variety of genres and incredible #writing . 📚 🔥
Congratulations to the six talented authors 👏
Meet them at lucy.cam.ac.uk/news/fiction-p…
Who will take the top prize on May 23rd? Stay tuned to find out.

Talking to the lovely Caroline Lucas at the recent Cambridge Literary Festival about her political life, her political future and her new book arguing that the progressive left need to discover Another England, through literature and tapping into an alternative set of stories about our nation.

And SUNDAY at the festival - it's a wrap!

Thank you to our wonderful, engaged audiences, our generous and incisive speakers, and our tireless volunteers and staff. We’ve had a blast and we hope you have too!

For The Love Of Books.

The CLF Team x

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Was gutted I was working when Francis Pryor was talking Cambridge Literary Festival but the wonderful Christie sorted out a dedicated copy and it’s beautiful. Can’t wait to dive in! Flag fen was the first archaeological site I went to as a child and time team cemented my love of history!

Great evening Cambridge Literary Festival with Helen Lederer A great insight into a pioneering woman in comedy. Not content with her own success she has been instrumental in raising female Comedy literature with Comedy Women In Print Plus, got to meet these amazing women too. Women, empowering Women.

Had the best weekend Cambridge Literary Festival and did NOT anticipate Margaret Drabble asking me LIVE what I thought of the ‘T*ylor Sw*ft phenomenon’

Every writer should have MD interview them, in my opinion

Helen Lederer thank you for a great evening yesterday Cambridge Literary Festival
From 3 x Claire & 2 x Helen. #comedy #inspiring Comedy Women In Print

Thank you for joining us at Cambridge Literary Festival today Clare Balding 💙 - I enjoyed our super conversation about all things #dogs and great to welcome you back to The Cambridge Union

Pretty good Cambridge Literary Festival - 2 of the newly announced Channel 4 News Election Night coverage on your stage this w/e - Clare Balding 💙 & Cathy Newman 📚🤩🎤

Such a fab time ⁦Cambridge Literary Festival⁩ with Margaret Drabble today

Another fascinating debut panel at this year's Cambridge Literary Festival with Alex Clark discussing the work and practice of three brilliant writers: Sinéad Gleeson on HAGSTONE, Andrew McMillan on PITY and Holly Pester on THE LODGERS. Essential reads!!

three debut novelists📚what a thrill to be in Cambridge to chat with Holly Pester and Sinéad Gleeson this afternoon at Cambridge Literary Festival