About Literary Dundee
When the Dundee Literary Festival started, in 2007, it was almost entirely handmade
- the Dundee University team made each one of the 2000 tickets with a colour printer and a guillotine, we put leaflets through doors and sellotaped posters round the town. One of our chairs, a TV presenter, made cups of tea for visitors and we all made some cakes to tempt the authors.
Now, in 2012, the festival is bigger, slicker and altogether more professional, but it hasn’t lost it’s heart. We have a wonderful mix of events from literary fiction, poetry, sports, music, food, workshops, history, adventuring and lots of events for kids. The programme is a triumph,world class authors coming to Dundee to read from new work, let us into the secrets of their success as well as local authors, debut authors and even some killer events.
I’ve had some wonderful support this year - once again from our Creative Director Kirsty Gunn who has taken time out from her enormous success with her new novel The Big Music to programme some events and will be an integral part of the proceedings. Bob McDevitt has been the heart and soul of the 2012 programme and has done an amazing job.
Come and hear your favourite authors read from their work, but also come and try something new - that’s the fun of a festival. Join the Dundee Literary Festival story.
Anna Day
Director, Literary Dundee
