Media Alert: Gollancz fest line up Anouncement
Official Press release:
Gollancz Announces
Programme for The Gollancz Festival 2015
Gollancz, the science-fiction and fantasy imprint
of the Orion Publishing Group, is delighted to announce the programme of The
Gollancz Festival 2015 taking place at Waterstones Manchester Deansgate, 16
October 2015, and Waterstones London Piccadilly, 17 October 2015. We are
also thrilled to reveal partnerships
with The Prince Charles Cinema and The Gamer’s Bus.
The
award-winning Gollancz Festival 2014 was the first of its kind – an integrated multi-platform, digital and
physical one-day book event featuring live participation from almost 50 writers. Amongst other brilliant results, #GollanczFest reached nearly 9
million timelines on Twitter and has been watched nearly 18,000 times on
You Tube. Tickets for the 2014 event at Waterstones
Piccadilly sold out in three
weeks.
Even bigger and
better, the Gollancz Festival 2015 will offer four days of action-packed events
and creative digital programming. Headline authors will
include, amongst others: Ben Aaronovitch; Joe Abercrombie; Charlaine Harris;
Joanne Harris; Joe Hill; Ursula K Le Guin; Sarah Pinborough; Patrick Rothfuss;
Brandon Sanderson and Nalini Singh.
Tickets
for the Waterstones events in both Manchester and London will go on sale at 11am today, 6 August 2015, at an early bird
price of £8 (£6 for Waterstones loyalty card holders), with the ticket
price increasing to £10 (£8 for card holders) on 3 September 2015.
Both the events in Manchester Deansgate, 16 October
6–9pm, and London Piccadilly 17 October 2–6pm, will have two unique strands of
action-packed programming, followed by a group signing session including all
participating authors. Each attendee will receive a goody bag with some
spectacular exclusives. You can find
full details of the authors you can meet face-to-face, in Manchester and
London, and book tickets at gollanczfestival.com.
Gollancz is also thrilled to announce a partnership
with the Prince Charles Cinema who will be screening two films of Gollancz
titles, Minority Report and The Prestige, on the 15 and 18 October
2015. The
Gollancz Festival events at the Prince Charles cinema will include a short talk
by the hottest new talents in SF&F before each screening. There will be a
chance to meet the authors and get books singed the bar from 19.30pm (and again
after the films), with Minority Report starting at 20:15pm and The Prestige at 20:30pm. Each attendee will also receive a Gollancz Festival
goody bag. Tickets will go on sale on the 6 August
2015 at gollanczfestival.com.
Gollancz is
delighted to reveal that they will be working with the Gamer’s Bus to bring console and gaming pc’s to The Gollancz Festival venues in both
London and Manchester.
And Gollancz is very
pleased to be working with Future PLC, the publisher of SFX and Total Film magazines and
the website GamesRadar+, who will be
supporting traditional and digital events of The Gollancz Festival 2015.
We are also thrilled
to make this an international event, working with Hachette Australia and New
Zealand who will be running digital events from midnight–8am GMT on the 16
and 17 October.
Gollancz will be releasing the dynamic schedule of
digital author events in due course. For updates on digital events please register your
interest at gollanczfestival.com.
About
The Gollancz Festival 2015
The full list of
participating authors taking part in traditional and/or digital events
currently includes: Ben Aaronovitch; Joe Abercrombie; Mark Alder; Stephen
Baxter; Greg Bear; Bradley Beaulieu; Kit Berry; James Blaylock; Aliette de
Bodard; Anna Caltabiano; C. Robert Cargill; Elspeth Cooper; Paul Cornell;
Edward Cox; AJ Dalton; Stephen Deas; Jaine Fenn; Tony Gonzales; Charlaine
Harris; Joanne Harris; MG Harris; Joe Hill; John Hornor Jacobs; Antonia
Honeywell; Stephen Hunt; Simon Ings; Alex Lamb; David Langford; Ursula K Le
Guin; Philip Mann; Elizabeth May; Paul McAuley; Ian McDonald; Suzanne McLeod;
Simon Morden; Richard Morgan; Den Patrick; Sarah Pinborough; Tim Powers; Hannu
Rajaniemi; Alastair Reynolds; Adam Roberts; Al Robertson; Justina Robson; Pat
Rothfuss; Brandon Sanderson; Nalini Singh; Gavin Smith; Mark Stay; Tricia
Sullivan; Lisa Tuttle; Jon Wallace; Catriona Ward, Michael J Ward; Sean
Williams; Chris Wooding.
About
The Gollancz Festival 2014
Shortlisted
for the Publishers Publicity Circle Annual Awards, highly commended by Books
Marketing Society, and the winner of The Hachette UK Marketing and Publicity
Campaign of the Year 2014 Award, the Gollancz Festival was the UK’s first ever integrated virtual and
traditional literary festival.
About Gollancz
Gollancz is the oldest specialist SF
& Fantasy publisher in the UK. Founded in 1927 and with a continuous SF
publishing programme dating back to 1961, the imprint of the Orion Publishing
Group is home to a galaxy of award-winning and bestselling authors. Through our
long-running SF and Fantasy Masterworks programme, and major digital initiative
the SF Gateway, Gollancz have one of the largest ranges of SF and Fantasy of
any publisher in the world.
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