Literary festival

[Ellen Cotter]

Hi all,
I'm new to this site and was wondering if you could help me...
I am in my third year of university and need some responses and ideas for a literary festival I am marketing.

I was wondering what are your first thoughts when I say literary festival?
What would make you attend a festival? (i.e. venues, prices, events, celebrities.)
What media channels would it be best to give you information? (i.e. Facebook, email, text. etc)

[Iain Sparrow]

I'm fine with "literary festival", but be sure to give it more character by including either the name of your university, or if the literary festival focuses on some specific aspect or genre of literature that is also fashioned into the name. The only reason I ever attend a literary gathering is if it focuses on literature I really enjoy, and/or there's at least one writer I'd really like to meet in person. And have a *face painting booth. I love those!
Also, why not visit the Art Department at your university and see if you could get a fellow student to design a logo for your festival. As an example; The Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival...
http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/


*I'm just kidding about the face painting booth.:)

~ps, if you need a cool logo just hit me up. I've been a professional graphic artist for longer than you've been alive, and I'll turn it out in an hour or less.

[Calidore]

I think literary-themed face painting would be a great touch. Many literary characters are known to kids, especially thanks to Disney.

[Iain Sparrow]

Then face painting it is!.. paint the little buggers up like the boys from Golding's Lord of the Flies.:)

[Hawkman]

You mean like Piggy, lying at the bottom of the cliff with his skull broken open... That would be quite an artistic challenge, perhaps one more suited to movie makeup departments :devil:

[Calidore]

Kids that bring their own hump could be painted as Quasimodo.

[Iain Sparrow]

Yeah that would work... though Piggy was the one character who got what he deserved.
There is no room for intellectual complexity and preserving remnants of civilized behavior when things have gone to hell in a handbasket.:)

Well, I think this thread has been hijacked by discussion over the finer points of Lord of the Flies.;)
I guess you know, folks have to eat at a literary festival... I say they barbeque a wild boar and display the head on a pike.

[Calidore]

How about kissing booths with men and women dressed in character?

Kiss Guinevere! Milady! Galadriel! Kiss Sir Robin! Lancelot! Quasimodo!