“The origin of all racism is Christian Europe.” Watch the full discussion with Rachel Shabi and Remona Aly on her novel The Truth about Antisemitism, on the Bradford Lit Fest YouTube channel. #Judaism #RachelShabi #Antisemitism #BradfordLitFest #Jewish

Shaykh Dr Ahmed Saad Al-Azhari joins us to launch Parables from the Qur’an, the much-anticipated follow-up to Contemplating the Qur’an. New podcast episodes every week. Listen via the link in our bio: 🎧 https://linktr.ee/bradfordlitfest #BradfordLitFest #Islam #Muslim #Quran

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, President of Zaytuna College, discusses Thomas Cleary, depression, mistranslations and teachings from Cleary’s translation of the Quran. Watch the full lecture on the Bradford Lit Fest YouTube Channel. #Islam #Quran #QuranTranslation #HamzaYusuf #ThomasCleary

“All the prophets came down and prayed at this spot.” Watch the full discussion with Dr Adnan Adas on The Evolving Architecture of Makkah on the Bradford Lit Fest YouTube Channel. #Makkah #Mecca #MasjidAlHaram #Islam #SaudiArabia

Book now for BLF’s Education Programme 24 June - 10 July 2026. Live shows and workshops with writers, poets, scientists and historians, all curriculum linked. Free for non-fee-paying schools and home educators across the North: https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/education-programme/

Will Europe stand firm as a force for democracy and stability, or splinter under pressure? Explore the power struggles and global forces that are redefining Europe. New podcast episodes every week. Listen here: 🎧 https://linktr.ee/bradfordlitfest #BradfordLitFest #Europe #EU

“Where is the responsibility of the UK in this problem?” Dr H. A. Hellyer, Salman Shaikh and Lubna Masarwa reflect on the War in the Middle East and the future of Gaza. Watch the full discussion on the Bradford Lit Fest YouTube Channel. #MiddleEastConflict #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #BradfordLitFest

Welcome to Yorkshire have written an article as we have been shortlisted for The Yorkshire Post’s Event of the Year. Read here: https://www.yorkshire.com/visitor-economy-news/bradford-literature-festival-is-finalist-in-regional-awards/ #BradfordLitFest #WelcomeToYorkshire #Yorkshire #YorkshireEvents

AI and Faith have published an article reflecting on our BLF2025 event AI and Religious Authority: When Machines Preach, Who Leads? The panel explored how AI is entering spaces once reserved for spiritual guidance. Read more: https://aiandfaith.org/insights/enchanted-by-ai/

Authors Shubnum Khan (The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years) and Genevieve Cogman (Damned) explore the power of fantasy to reshape the past and reimagine the present. New podcast episodes every week. Listen via the link in our bio: 🎧 https://linktr.ee/bradfordlitfest #BradfordLitFest #Podcast #Authors

Watch the full discussion with Michael Chessum and Ash Sarkar, talking through all things Culture Wars, Brexit, Corbynism and more. Live on the Bradford Lit Fest YouTube channel, recorded at the 2025 festival. #AshSarkar #CancelCulture #FreeSpeech #CultureWars #Debate

Read more about our 2026 education programme here: www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2557649...

Don’t miss the Stephen White Books pop-up sale with over 100,000 used books to explore, from bestselling fiction to hidden vintage gems. 📅 23–28 October 2025 📍 BizSpace Business Centre, Knowles Ln, Bradford, BD4 9SW Find out more here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1482206016232176

Listen to Dr Nafeez Ahmed, Naz Shah, Miqdaad Versi and Nabeela Rasheed for a timely and urgent discussion; from economic anxiety and online radicalisation to political polarisation. New podcast episodes every week. Listen here: 🎧 https://linktr.ee/bradfordlitfest #BradfordLitFest

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf discusses Jane Austen, her novel Sense and Sensibility, and how it relates to the world we live in. Watch here: https://youtu.be/ZJ3k-fYnSwk #JaneAusten #SenseAndSensibility #HamzaYusuf #ClassicBooks #LiteraryDiscussion #BradfordLitFest

Take a look at our #BLF2025 Impact Report. Over 187,000 people joined us for 750+ events, from world affairs to wellbeing to children’s stories, with voices like Ash Sarkar, Jeremy Corbyn and Celia Imrie. Read more: https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/about-us/previous-festivals/blf-2025/

Join historian and author, Manu S. Pillai for an illuminating talk on his latest book, Gods, Guns and Missionaries, with Professor Saeed Khan. New podcast episodes every week. Listen here: 🎧 https://linktr.ee/bradfordlitfest #BradfordLitFest #HinduHistory #ReligionAndPolitics #IndianHistory

Watch the full discussion between Dr. Kehinde Andrews and Saeed Khan on Malcolm X. Live on the Bradford Lit Fest YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/MjQiWbczfR0 #MalcolmX #CivilRights #BlackHistoryMonth #PoliticalHistory #FreedomAndJustice #RacialJustice

Listen to this week’s podcast as Professor Saeed Khan explores Syria’s extraordinary past. A land of prophets, poets, and empires.  🇸🇾 New podcast episodes every week. Listen via the link in our bio: 🎧 https://linktr.ee/bradfordlitfest #BradfordLitFest #Syria #HistoryofSyria

Watch the full discussion with Nabeela Rasheed, Daniel Levy and Wadah Khanfar as they discuss the ongoing devastation in Gaza and the West Bank. Watch now: youtu.be/krITgCt77Xw #IsraelPalestine #GazaConflict #MiddleEastPolitics #Israel #Palestine #BradfordLitFest

Join Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey as they discuss the poems that continue to inspire them. New podcast episodes every week. Listen via the link in our bio: 🎧 linktr.ee/bradfordli... #BradfordLitFest #JeremyCorbyn #Poetry #PoetryfortheMany #LenMcCluskey

The full discussion from our Monstrous Anger of the Guns event featuring Jeremy Corbyn in conversation on global disarmament, is now available on the Bradford Lit Fest YouTube channel: youtu.be/O4VAdkehcPc #JeremyCorbyn #GlobalDisarmament #ArmsRace #UKPolitics #GlobalSecurity

🎧 Season 4 is here! Get ready for weekly episodes of events from BLF 2025. 🤩 Join John Siddique, Saima Mir, Nadine Matheson and Kia Abdullah talking all things crime fiction New podcast episodes every week: 🎧 linktr.ee/bradfordli... #CrimeFiction #WritersMosaic #BradfordLitFest

As the school term winds down, our learning team is still hard at work, continuing Holocaust education outside of the classroom. Here’s Hannah, our Head of Learning at Holocaust Centre North, with Elissa, a third-generation Holocaust survivor @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social earlier this month.

Our penultimate slam heat at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social was phenomenal! Huge thanks to every poet who performed, including our stellar sacrificial @mlferg.bsky.social, and congratulations to our first-ever Loud Poets Bradford Champion Trystan Lewis! #BradfordLitFest #Bradford2025

What an incredible festival we had this year! But what was your standout moment? 🤩 #BradfordLitFest #Bookstagram #BookSky #LiteratureFestival

Yesterday we welcomed the @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social to the Cathedral for the annual 'Sacred Music' event, which featured powerful celebration of devotional music from across faith traditions. (1/3)

Brilliant talk today at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social listening to @robinince.bsky.social and @pierrenovellie.bsky.social talk about their books and neurodiversity. Very funny, and they were lovely enough to sign my books 🩷 I tried not to waffle, but I feel like I might have failed on that front 😅

And so, the 11th chapter of Bradford Literature Festival comes to an end. 752 events, 524 artists, and 187,366 attendees. Thank you to our sponsors and partners, the artists, the staff and volunteers who made it all happen, and all of you who made this year unforgettable. #bradfordlitfest

We have a very limited number of tickets back on sale for this event at 2pm today. Don’t miss out! www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/the-mo...

Last minute decision to take the family to see @robinince.bsky.social and @pierrenovellie.bsky.social at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social this afternoon. Seeing as I'm halfway through Pierre's book on Kindle and have Robin's latest to read next.

My first time at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social, in the lovely city hall for the Muslim Women in Media session. Hearing interesting stories and perspectives from the media coalface #BradfordLitFest by

📚 Poetry for the Many with Jeremy Corbyn & Len McCluskey – an evening of politics, poetry & powerful verse. 📍 St George’s Hall 🕗 Sunday 6 July, 8 PM #BradfordLitFest #PoetryForTheMany #JeremyCorbyn #LenMcCluskey

The Bard of Salford came to Bradford. 🎸 What an incredible evening with John Cooper Clarke and Nihal Arthanayake. He said his time at BLF was smooth; he gave us a taste of some new material and chatted about how he's never met Bob Dylan... #BradfordLitFest #JohnCooperClarke

If you are interested in a career in publishing, I'll be on the panel discussing it at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social tomorrow afternoon. Join us (both there and in the business)! #BradfordLitFest

Seamus Murphy's exhibition, Smoke and Mirrors, at the Bradford Literature Festival 2025, captures Nablus – the city at the heart of the film Paradise Now – revealing the ongoing reality of occupation and the enduring resonance of its themes 21 years later. observer.co.uk/cultu...

Bradford let's go!!! Tomorrow night is our penultimate Slam Heat of our 2024-25 Slam Series, hosted in partnership with the wonderful @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social, featuring @mlferg.bsky.social & 12 fantastic slammers! Tickets: www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/loud-p... #WhatsOnBradford #Bradford

Currently in the interval for this event. It's been fantastic so far, like a live audiobook. Superbly performed by @gavcross.bsky.social @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social

Huge thanks to @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social for my screening of Ghost Empire Mauritius-Chagos (2024) and a great Q & A, as well as an inspiring weekend of relevant and very thought provoking talks and fantastic concerts!

I'm back on the road in Bradford today, covering @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social. Early impressions are very good. Extraordinarily well organised festival, with a truly excellent programme of events. Some amazing stuff for kids and adults alike. Big fan. #BookFestival #LitFest #BookSky #Bookish

What a great turnout of budding sleuths for Can You Solve the Murder? Live at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social! Thanks to everyone who came along – lots of signed copies (and some Dog Sitter Detective, natch) now available at the @waterstones.bsky.social festival hub 😊🔍

Seen my first of two @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social events - a great look at haunted literature with some real life tales thrown in as well. I liked Clare's poetry and will probably grab a copy of their Uncanny-inspired 'I Know What I Saw' when it comes out. #Bradford2025

Bradford Literature Festival weekend 1- done! From shadows puppets, crafting & cosy crime to the powerful Ghost Empire Mauritius & Chagos film. It’s been a busy but brilliant weekend & a great introduction to all things literary, magical, cultural and political for my girls. Roll on next weekend!

Been to @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social today and had a great time. Saw Kirsty Logan, Michael Stewart and Molly Aitkin on a panel called Witchy Reads. Very enjoyable and interesting exploration of their "we really don't for into any genre and that's a good thing" work.

📢 Event Update: Due to delegation obligations, Husam Zomlot has had to withdraw from his event tomorrow therefore the event has been cancelled. Refunds will be issued within 14 days. If you'd like to book another event, please visit our website: bradfordlitfest.co.uk 💛

Looking forward to screening Ghost Empire § Mauritius-Chagos (2025) and discussion after with Nabeela Rasheed @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social this Sunday 29th June! www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/ghost-... @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @humandignitytrust.bsky.social

One week to go! Bradford's Literary Connections: Malachi Whitaker and JB Priestley. 2pm. Thursday 3 July. Festival Hub, Bradford Lit Fest. *Showcasing 3 recently discovered letters from JBP Priestley to Malachi Whitaker* Presenter: Valerie Waterhouse @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social

CAN YOU SOLVE THE MURDER? LIVE CONTINUES this coming week with events at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social, Waterstones Chelmsford, and Waterstones Fareham Whiteley! Join me for a unique, special-written interactive event to see if YOU can solve the mystery… Tickets available direct from the venues:

Celia Imrie and Fidelis Morgan will be attending BLF 2025 for an in conversation event with Fidelis Morgan. 📅 - Sunday 29 June 🏛️ - University of Bradford Book your tickets now, this is one you won’t want to miss! www.bradfordlitfest.... #CeliaImrie #Fiction #BradfordLitFest

Explore the rich history, architecture, and hidden stories of Bradford and beyond through guided walks, expert talks, and engaging discussions that bring our heritage to life. See the full lineup here: www.bradfordlitfest.... #Heritage #Bradford #BradfordLitFest