THE programme has been unveiled for the 2018 Kendal Mountain Literature Festival following its successful debut last year.
More than 40 authors and poets are set to appear at the event, featuring some of the UK’s foremost writers of nature, landscape and mountain literature.
The three-day celebration takes place from Friday November 16 to Sunday 18 as part of the wider Kendal Mountain Festival – the largest and longest-running annual gathering of the outdoor community in the UK.
Naturalist Mark Cocker, Canal Laureate Nancy Campbell, mountaineer Graham Hoyland and former hospice scribe Tanya Shadrick all appear as this year takes the theme of ‘connection’ to explore the latest and very best outdoor inspired literature.
In what will undoubtedly be a moving tribute to Britain’s war dead, Kendal Mountain Festival patron and esteemed mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington will join the National Trust’s commemoration of the Great Gift.
Literature has been a central part of Kendal Mountain Festival over the years, with the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature hosted at the festival since 2007.
The 35th Boardman Tasker Award will take place on Friday November 17 when the winner of this year’s shortlist will be revealed.
For line-up details and to buy tickets, visit www.mountainfest.co.uk/literaturefestival
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