We are thrilled to announce that Julian Sedgewick Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada will be joining the manga mad students of Swindon Wyvern Theatre on Tuesday 12th November as the headline of our 2024 Festival. #festivals #manga #secondaryschoollibrarians #Swindon

How honoured are we to be on the front cover of The School Library Association magazine?! Thank you again Steve Antony and School Library Association (SLA) for dedicating a cover to the Festival Team! 😀📚😀

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Look at that! Just look at it! What a cracking line up for the 17th Swindon Youth Festival of Literature.

Check out the amazing exhibition of this year’s Illustration Competition winners at Swindon’s Central Library until Nov 20th. Thanks to Steve Antony for judging the entries and Swindon Libraries for providing the space to showcase this talent! #librarieschangelives

Today is the day! Check out what’s happening during the 17th Swindon Youth Festival of Literature across the secondary schools of Swindon on our website swindonyfl.co.uk

We were lucky enough to have award-winning author Paul Dowswell in today to talk to and work with some of our students. Poignant, pertinent and powerful! Ridgeway School SwindonYFL

Looking forward to all these seats being filled very soon to see the amazing Carnegie nomination authors Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada! Bring on the Manga mad students of Swindon!

Award winning poet Ash Dickinson Ash Dickinson, kicked off @swindonyfl at Nova for his 14th year to teach Year 7 about Haikus

Author Julian Sedgwick and manga artist Chie Kutsuwada had us all GRIPPED with their ghost stories, artistic talents and more today at Wyvern Theatre Another fantastic SYFL day - how lucky are we! Ridgeway School SwindonYFL

It’s Day 3 of SwindonYFL and I’m off to Nova Hreod Academy 🥳 We will be talking all about the power of stories and the fun of codes and I cannot wait to meet a new team of #secretbreakers 🔍 This is such a fabulous festival and I am so thrilled to be part of it ✨

Poetry Part 1: A passion for poetry with plenty of performers, a Spanish Shadorma and a Six Wheeler with year 7 Ridgeway School and Ash Dickinson SwindonYFL

Poetry Part 2: Everyone, and we mean everyone, joined in this morning with Ash Dickinson Ridgeway School SwindonYFL. The Maths teachers couldn't resist the numbers...

Our students had a fantastic opportunity to listen and meet manga author Julian Sedgwick and illustrator Chie Kutsuwada at the Wyvern Theatre as part of this year's @swindonyfl

We welcomed local primary schools to Nova to hear bestselling author @JennyMcLachlan1 talk about her writing, her career as a writer and some of the characters in her books as part of @swindonyfl

Matt Oldfield was our 'Ultimate Author Hero' today! We hosted 290 Yr5 students from across Swindon who were captivated during his talk today - the atmosphere was electric! Ridgeway School SwindonYFL Matt Oldfield

Well done to our amazing team who took part in the @swindonyfl book quiz at Lydiard Park Academy last week. Special thanks to Mrs Shurley whose hard work brought the Festival to life at Nova again this year.

Last night's SYFL Celebration at Pattern Church was a fantastic evening! Congratulations to our competition winners & library ambassadors from all the schools and special thanks to the Mayor, Bower Bailey Solicitors Bert’s Books & National Literacy Trust for their amazing support! 📚🌟