Our Festival Friends scheme offers you 12 months’ membership giving you benefits such as priority bookings.
By becoming a Festival Friend you can enjoy a range of benefits including…
- 12 months’ membership from 1 January each year
- Priority e-mailing of programme and ticket information one week before tickets go on general sale
- A special priority booking period of one week before the tickets go on general sale
- Invitations to two Festival events during the year
- Regular Festival Friends’ e-newsletter
- Ticket offers on Festival events in the final week before the Festivals open and during the Festivals
- Free draw for signed copies of books exclusively for Festival Friends
- Festival Friends’ membership card
Membership costs £25 (single) £35 (joint)
Terms and Conditions apply.
If you wish to become a Festival Friend, please email [email protected] who will provide you with all the details for signing up.
Congratulations to our Flash Fiction winners
We received 539 entries across three age categories in this year’s Flash Fiction writing competition on the theme ‘Home’.
7th July 2020
Working with Illustration Students at the University of Derby
This year, we worked with students on the University of Derby Illustration course to illustrate our Festival programme. Derby Book Festival Director Vicky Daws...
28th May 2020
Pop Up Poems
Spread the joy of poetry across Derby and beyond with our PopUp Poems!
26th May 2020
Book-related activities for children
Inspire and entertain your children with these brilliant book-related activities. Let their imaginations run wild!
18th May 2020
What we're reading: Festival co-founder Sian Hoyle
While we all stay at home, we've been asking members of the DBF team which books they've been reading and, in some cases, re-reading. This week Festival co-foun...
18th May 2020