Meet the Team
The Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival was set up in 2008 and the Festival team comprises:
Maggie O'Farrell
Festival Patron, novelist, award-winning author of Hamnet
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Picture: Lorentz Gullachsen
Julia Donaldson
UK's biggest selling children's author and Patron of our Outreach Work
Annie Ashworth
Trustee, Festival Director and Programming - email
Jo James
Operations Director and Programming - email
Charlotte Brennan
Festival Administrator and Fundraising Lead - email
Becci Smith
Family and Schools events programmer - email
Judy Reaves
Set Design and My Author Project
Liz Wise
Books with Friends Meetings Leader
Suzanne Worthington
Volunteers Coordinator - email
Alison Morris
Writers' Room Author Care
Kate Abbey
Programming
David Fletcher
Trustee and Money Man
Rupert Barnes
Festival Photographer
Lorentz Gullachsen
Photographer, Festival Faces Project
Tamsin Williams
Press and PR - Wigwam PR - email
Truly Content Ltd
Regional Press, PR and Digital Advertising
ProSound
Production
Trustees:
Annie Ashworth, David Fletcher, Philip Heath (Chair), Dr Diana Owen OBE, Madeleine Parker, Julia Wheeler
Festival Chairs:
Clare Clark
Olivia Chapman
Tim Hubbard
John Jefferies
Meg Sanders
Caroline Sanderson
Deirdre Shields
Julia Wheeler
Prison Workshop Team:
Annie Ashworth
Hollie Hughes, children's author
Smriti Halls, children's author
Patrick Kincaid
The Festival offers an opportunity for people to meet their favourite authors and celebrities and the chance to learn new skills. It has an extensive community programme, works in prisons and has one of the biggest educational and outreach programmes of any literary festival.
We also aim to have great fun doing it!
Festival Office: 01789 470185
The Stratford Literary Festival is Charitable Incorporated Organisation Number: 1164662.