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Welcome to the thirteenth

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Swindon Festival of Literature!

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1 - 1 3 May 2006

Reaching thirteen, like becoming a teenager or
understanding prime numbers, can be a tricky business.
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Superstitions surround us. Festival longevity lulls us into
thinking we may last a while longer. But happiness
haunts us too, and lures us into literary pastures new.
Please join us!
Come and meet people who write books, who love words, and
like to use them well.When readers meet writers, enjoyable,
interesting, serious, unpredictable, funny, and memorable things
happen.
And that is just what we expect at this year's Swindon Festival
of Literature.
Lool< out for our Page 3 parade of writers, with their eagerly-
awaited crop of new books; an array of authors who explore
the world of art, history, education, and comedy; poetry
sessions that are numerous and various; storytelling indoors
and out; first-time literary film slots; and even, in view of
England's forthcoming football encounter, an event that takes a
peel< at Paraguay!
The Festival begins, as ever, with fun and the rising sun, at dawn
on that high ridge overlooking the town in Lawn Woods on
May Day.
And on each subsequent day there will be three or more
events, at midday, teatime, and in the evening, carefully spaced
and placed, to enable you to attend almost every event, should
you have the stamina! For the full at-a-glance Festival diary, turn
to the centre pages of this programme.
And then, mark your own diary, so that during the first thirteen
days of May you join us for Swindon's very own communion of
words: an opportunity to celebrate life, or lament it, and to love
literature, together.

Please read on, and come along.
MATT HOLLAND
Festival Organiser