BWWF25: Launch event with Emerald Fennell
Fri 26 Sept, 6 - 9pmWest Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
We're thrilled to kick off this year's Brontë Women's Writing Festival with Oscar-winning writer and actress Emerald Fennell!
Join us on Friday evening with a glass of bubbly, a chance to browse books from this year's panelists, and to hear all about writing novels and screenplays, including Emerald Fennell's hotly-anticpated adaptation of Wuthering Heights, coming to cinemas next February.
Tickets include a glass of fizz and vegan canapes provided by Cobbles & Clay (Haworth).
Doors open: 6pm
Helen Meller in conversation with Emerald Fennell: 7 - 8pm
Sat 27 Sept, 10:30 - 11:30am
West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
Our first panel of the day features three northern women writers in conversation with our Chair of Trustees and fellow author, Lucy Powrie.
We’ll be hearing from Amanda Smyth (Look at You), SJ Bradley (Maps Of Imaginary Towns) and Anna Chilvers (East Coast Road).
Sat 27 Sept, 12 - 1pm
West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
Join best-selling local author, Linda Green (The Woman with All the Answers), as she chats to Sairish Hussain (Hidden Fires), Colette Snowden (Captain Jesus) and Rozie Kelly (Kingfisher) about their novels and experiences being Northern women writers. Linda Green is also leading this year's Women's Writing workshops.
Sat 27 Sept, 2:30 - 3:30pm
West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
Join host Yvette Huddleston as we explore historical fiction set in Yorkshire and northern folklore. Yvette will be joined by Jennie Godfrey (The List of Suspicious Things) and Rachel Bower (It Comes from the River).
West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
Before there was Wuthering Heights and Thornfield Hall, there was Gondal – and there was Angria.
As children in Haworth, the Brontë siblings dreamed up a series of imaginary worlds. Among them was Angria, a fantastical kingdom that maps directly on to the coast of West Africa.
Now, nearly 200 years on, Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture invited four emerging writers – Claire Govender and Kristina Diprose from Bradford, and Akorfa Dawson and Peggy Kere Osman from Ghana – to create four new stories inspired by Angria yet rooted in the writers’ own imaginations. Following residencies at Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra and the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, this event offers you the opportunity to hear from the writers themselves, through sharing their work and their experiences of this collaboration between Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, Brontë Parsonage Museum, and Writers Project of Ghana.
West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
You’re invited to join us for an evening with Tracy Chevalier (Girl with the Pearl Earring) and Holly Ringland (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart).
Host Yvette Huddleston will be in conversation with the two authors discussing their novels and how they’ve both been inspired by the Brontës' writing.
Sun 28 Sept, 9:30 - 10:30am
Meet outside the Museum entrance.
Join Anna Chilvers for a morning walk – perhaps one taken by the Brontës themselves, tramping over the fields and lanes behind the Parsonage. Bring your notebook and a pen – weather permitting we will pause for writing breaks, recording the experiences of our senses and imaginations.
Sun 28 Sept, 11am - 12:30pm
West Lane Baptist Church, Haworth
We’re closing out the festival with the special opportunity to hear from Brontë Society Trustees and representatives from Arvon and the Women’s Prize for Playwriting about their work championing women’s writing.
Join host Helen Meller (Vice Chair of The Brontë Society and Co-Director of Lumb Bank and Arvon at Home) as she chats with Chair of The Brontë Society Lucy Powrie (Real When I’m With You), Trustee Ellie Keel (The Four), Trustee Penny Batchelor (The Woman Next Door) and Rozie Kelly (Kingfisher) from Arvon.
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