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Barnsley is breaking boundaries by hosting its first ever <\/strong>Book Festival<\/strong><\/a> to showcase the variety of creative talent across the South Yorkshire town. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A range of events are taking place through February and March to champion local literature, art, and culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To some, Barnsley may not seem like an obvious choice for a literature festival, but for romance author Milly Johnson<\/a>, who launched her new book The Happiest Ever After <\/em>at the festival, it makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBarnsley having a lit fest? Why wouldn\u2019t we? Per square foot I think in Barnsley, it has far more artists, sculptors, actors, far more creatives than many towns I can think of,\u201d says Milly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Everybody else in the country has been ripping down libraries. Barnsley put one up”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

She adds that Barnsley\u2019s status as a former industrial town still influences how outsiders perceive the local people and their heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you tell someone you\u2019re from Barnsley, there\u2019s this thing where they have to go \u2018Oh Baahhhhhhhhhrnsley\u2019. People who have never been here associate Barnsley with pits and mines, they associate us with Kes, with muckstacks, with whippets, with flat caps. I\u2019m almost on a mission to show people that the Barnsley of today is not the Barnsley of yesterday. Everybody else in the country has been ripping down libraries. Barnsley put one up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The festival<\/a> was made possible by funding from Arts Council England, as part of the National Portfolio Organisation for Barnsley. It includes talks from authors, art workshops, poetry sessions, and drop-ins for families, welcoming visitors of all ages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Milly got her first publishing deal at the age of 40, and is now one of the UK’s Top 10 Female Fiction Authors<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jemma Conway, one of the organisers of the festival and programme manager at Barnsley Libraries, says: \u201cWe really wanted an opportunity for local people to see what local people have achieved. People like Milly Johnson, Andrew and Ian McMillan are really big household names, and they’re also massive champions of literature in Barnsley.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milly recalls the challenges she faced when trying to break into the industry as a northern writer. She had no choice but to spend around \u00a320 to send a manuscript to London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was a big thing,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a lot of money to have to send it down. It\u2019s expensive before you\u2019ve even started.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born and raised in Barnsley, Milly dreamt of becoming a writer but was unsure whether she could make it in the industry. After studying Drama and Education at the University of Exeter, she became an accountant at a building society, and started ghost-writing on the side, but her first publishing deal didn\u2019t come until she was 40. She is now one of the UK\u2019s Top 10 Female Fiction Authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“It was only when I embraced my northernness that I managed to break into the publishing industry”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Historically, the London-centric nature of the publishing industry permeated the kind of romance literature that was popular. The 90s and early 2000s saw the heyday of \u2018chick lit\u2019 \u2013 think Bridget Jones\u2019 Diary<\/em> or Confessions of a Shopaholic<\/em> \u2013 which centred around the disastrous love lives of women in their twenties living in London and working in PR, journalism or publishing. The genre has fallen out of fashion in recent years, partly because many of them reinforced tired sexist tropes, but also because their lives were not relatable for most women, particularly for working-class, northern women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI loved them, we all loved them, but they didn\u2019t relate to my life,\u201d says Milly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The need for ordinary, northern, female voices to be brought to the forefront in fiction helped Milly carve out her own niche within the genre. \u201cIronically I didn\u2019t think anyone would be interested in the north. But it was only when I embraced my northernness that I managed to break into the publishing industry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think probably at the time [the publishers] saw [that] my books could relate to all women of all ages. I\u2019m very very lucky to have a great spectrum of readership, and I just appealed to ordinary women. I know that living and breathing in the north I can write authentically about it. The world of literature has opened up to appeal to everybody, as it should. In a way I was representing a minority class. Working-class working people were not represented in books, and there was a need for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle Rawlins<\/a>, who is also due to talk at the festival this Saturday (February 24), is the author of Women of Steel<\/em> and the Steel Girls<\/em> series, which are based on the lives of real women who worked in Sheffield\u2019s steel works during WWII. She says: \u201cI think it\u2019s very important that every part of the country is represented in literature and it’s another form of memorialization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The perception that careers in the arts are limited to well-off, well-connected individuals living in London is pervasive, but in recent years things have improved for northern writers. More publishing houses have moved up north, with Harper North (the northern branch of HarperCollins) being established in Manchester in 2020. Milly and fellow author, Trisha Ashley, set up an X (formerly known as Twitter) account called Northern Authors<\/a>. It aims to create an online community for northern writers, illustrators and bookshops, making it easier for publishers and agents to find them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barnsley Book Festival has been welcomed as an opportunity for northern literature to be championed, while showing off the beauty, heritage and culture of the town. Michelle says: \u201cI’m always happy for the Steel Girls to be celebrated, but it feels more special that it’s in Yorkshire, because that’s where they belong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Milly, headlining a book festival in the town where she was born and raised is a \u201cpinch-me moment\u201d. She says: \u201cI love the fact that we have this festival here, and to show off. We\u2019ve got a great town centre, it\u2019s brilliant, it\u2019s bringing people in. I hope that they carry on. I hope that this is the first of many.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisers, authors and artists hope the festival will encourage more young people in South Yorkshire to pursue the arts. Jemma says: \u201cIt’s great that we can show our young local young people that this is a career, [and] that we’ve been able to host [the authors] as part of the festival, and especially on peoples doorsteps. We’ve got an amazing art scene, we’ve got an amazing literature scene so why not celebrate that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou don’t have to travel to London to see an amazing author. You can do that in Barnsley as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Barnsley Book Festival is taking place from Friday 2nd February to Saturday 23rd March 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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