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Launch of SI Leeds Literary Prize 2014

Ilkley Playhouse, Wildman Theatre, Weston Road, Ilkley LS29 8DW

in partnership with Ilkley Literature Festival

Saturday 5 October 2013, 7.30pm – 8.45pm

Following the success of the inaugural biennial prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women, SI Leeds, together with its partners, Peepal Tree Press and Ilkley Literature Festival, is delighted to announce the launch of the 2014 SI Leeds Literary Prize, to take place at the Festival on 5 October.

Acclaimed British novelist and Prize patron Bernardine Evaristo MBE will be discussing her groundbreaking new book Mr Loverman with Professor John McLeod of the University of Leeds. The event opens with Minoli Salgado, winner of the 2012 SI Leeds Literary Prize, in conversation about her career since the Prize award, and a reading from her winning entry A Little Dust on the Eyes.

Please join us. Tickets cost £5, and can be obtained online:

www.ilkleyfestival.org.uk

or by telephoning the Box Office: 01943 816714

 

Julie Widdowson

President, SI Leeds