The 2009 programme was from 12th - 18th October and showcased the following events:
Monday 12th October, 7pm - 9.30pm, £3.50 in advance or £4.50 at the event.
Haiku Double Event
The Literary Festival will be presenting a Haiku double-event open to all: a talk / reading followed by a workshop. The first part will provide an exciting introduction to the haiku form through a number of readings and an enlightening talk that dispels many of the myths surrounding the form and opens us to its real poetic power.
Following straight on from this will be an interactive haiku workshop in which all attendees will learn how to write their own haiku. Together these events promise to be an experience to remember and it is hoped that all participants will take away with them the beginning of a life-long love affair with, and learning process of, a poetic form of deceptive simplicity.
Christopher White, published haiku poet and member of the British Haiku Society, along with a guest speaker and veteran haiku workshopper, will be presenting these two fantastic events in the hope of sharing the wonderful world of haiku literature with the general public. This form of poetry, which has its roots in Japan, has expanded globally and is finally finding its feel in languages other than Japanese. Given this it seems timely that such a beautiful poetic form should be shared with a broader audience and a greater understanding of it be promoted.
Whether you are a novice or veteran poet, begin a lifelong love affair with Haiku's deceptive simplicity. The introductory talk will be followed by an interactive workshop presented by Christopher White and David Cobb, founder of the British Haiku Society.
For more information or to book your place at this event, please call Christopher White on 07816 571167. Cheques should be made payable to Christopher Andrew White.
Ticket is £3.50 in advance or £4.50 at the event. Venue: The Wessex Hotel, West Cliff Road, Bournemouth. BH2 5EU. 
Above: Julia Churchill, leading Children's literary scout from the Greenhouse Literary Agency.
Tuesday 13th October, 11 - 6.30 pm, £15.
Writing for Children with leading literary scout & publisher
Are you the next J.K. Rowling? Come to this event and showcase your work to Julia Churchill, leading London Children's Literary Scout from The Greenhouse Literary Agency - www.greenhouseliterary.com. Julia is looking for unusual books or stories and will give a talk, run a question and answer session and conduct one-to-one 10-minute surgeries together with Leah Thaxton, Children's Fiction Publisher at Egmont Publishing - www.egmont.co.uk.
Ticket is £15. Venue: Wentworth College, College Road, Bournemouth. BH5 2DY. ONE TO ONE SURGERIES ARE NOW FULLY BOOKED BUT SPACES STILL AVAILABLE FOR TALK AND Q&A. 
Above: the jacket of Brian Jenner's new book - "I'm just phoning to chase my invoice".
Tuesday 13th October, 7.30 - 9pm, £10.
Book launch: "I'm Just Phoning to Chase My Invoice" by Brian Jenner.
Seasoned speech writer Brian Jenner will be launching his new, humourous guide to the pitfalls of starting your own business. Brian will read excerpts from his book and answer any questions that members of the audience may have about this useful topic. There will be potential for business networking after the event itself. Brian's new book is a collection of funny stories about the perils of self-employment. Brian collects the popular quotations for The Business every month, and his book includes quotations, jokes and wisdom about the challenges of running a business. “I spent nearly three years running BoMoCreatives in the town and that gave me lots of insights and amusing stories about entrepreneurs, especially those who do creative things,” says Brian. Brian will be giving a talk on how you can improve your writing skills when composing letters, website copy or presentations for your business. This will be followed by networking in Bournemouth’s most bohemian bar.
Ticket price is £10, which includes a glass of wine and a £2 discount on Brian's new book, "I’m Just Phoning to Chase My Invoice". For more details and to book this event, please call Brian on (01202) 551257.
Venue: Conference room at the Ink Bar, Richmond Hill, Bournemouth.
Thursday 15th October, 7pm - 9pm, £3 in advance, £4 at the event.
Getting into Print - various ways of getting your writing published - panel discussion featuring published writers Janine Pulford, Pam Fudge and David Hay.
Janine Pulford runs her own publishing company and also produces a monthly regional magazine. She was educated in Reigate in Surrey. She is married with two sons and lives in Dorset. In 1990, she wrote her first novel, then decided to join a creative writing class to learn ‘how to write a novel’. Since then she has written two more. In the mid-nineties Janine became a columnist with her local daily paper and in 1998 she was invited to become editor of a local community magazine, Viewpoint Magazine. In 2002 she was presented with a prestigious NUJ (National Union of Journalists) award for her journalistic capability and professionalism. The following year she became a director of a publishing company and in that role she now edits four community magazines. Though she loved her work, her ambition was to publish her own novel. Aggracore has presented her with this opportunity. This inspired work started as a couple of doodles until she had fifty-four A4 size pen-and-ink doodles, which joined in all directions and almost filled the entire floor-space of her lounge. Following the illustrations, the novel took twelve weeks to write. Despite the unique concept of her work, Janine could not arouse the interest of any publishers or agents. “For this, I am grateful,” she says, “because it made me set up my own publishing company, Pulford Paperbacks, so that I could publish Aggracore myself.” She believes the format of her novel is unique - the first of its kind.
David Hay has published his epic novel "The Fundamentalist" through Authorhouse and will be on hand to describe his experiences of getting his book into print. David was born in St Pancras, London in 1947. He was educated locally before embarking upon a career in teaching, not only in the UK but throughout Africa - Uganda (1968-69), Zambia (1970-73), Botswana (1975-78), Lesotho (1984-85), Saudi Arabia (1990-2003) and Libya (2003). He has travelled extensively throughout Africa and the Middle East. Teaching enabled him to get a close insight into people of different ethnic groups, cultures and religions. Students of all ages speak openly to their teacher. "The Fundamentalist" is his first novel, about the march of Islam to take over the world, and he is putting the finishing touches to the sequel, "The Suicide Bomber", which is due out later this year! I am married to my second wife Lynette and we live together in Bournemouth. David says: "My son Joseph is 39 and is an electrician living with Lou in Bristol. He has a son, Dylan now six. My daughter Clare, 32, lives in Duisburg, Germany, with her son Max, five, and daughter, Jaz, four. Their mother, my first wife, Theresa, died of pancreatic cancer at the beginning of the year. Clare and Joe dealt with the death and burial with tremendous sensitivity and maturity. I am very proud of them both.
Pam Fudge started her writing career with short fiction and her stories have been published on a regular basis since 1984 by the majority of women’s magazines in the UK. She has also had two full-length Romances, Reluctant For Romance and Romantic Melody published in the nineties. Pam’s third book, and her first mainstream novel, Widow On The World, was published in 2006, followed by High Infidelity in 2007, A Blessing In Disguise in 2008, Second Best in 2009 and A Change For the Better has just been accepted for publication in 2010. For eleven years Pam tutored Writing For Pleasure And Profit classes for the local Adult Education Service, with a number of successes among her students. She was also a Home Study tutor for Writers News. Pam also works as an administrator at Bournemouth University.
This discussion will be chaired by Penny Legg, of the Society of Women Writers & Journalists. Penny Legg is a freelance writer, photographer and editor. Her work has been published in a number of newspapers and magazines in the UK and abroad. She is the Editor of 'The Woman Writer' for the Society of Women Writers and Journalists and is also a member of the National Union of Journalists. She is currently working on four local history books, to be published in 2010 and 2011, and is a non-fiction tutor for the distance learning college, The Writers Bureau.
Venue: The Wessex Hotel, 11-13 West Cliff Road, Bournemouth. BH2 5EU.
Friday 16th October, 7 - 10pm, £2 (advance ticket) / £3 on the door.
Bournemouth Literary Festival Five Years Birthday Party - A great opportunity to network with other literary and arty types and for us to say 'thank you' to our supporters as we celebrate the first 5 years of the festival
Party goers who still have a spring in their step and stardust in their hair will be able to stay on after our festival party and boogie the night away - in fact, into the early hours of Saturday! Venue: Be Bar & Club, 4 Terrace Road, Bournemouth. BH2 5NN.
Saturday 17th October, 10 am - 1 pm (ages 7-11), Free.
A World of Wonder: discovering, imagining and writing folktales - Children's Creative Writing Workshop
This Children's Creative Storytelling session includes art, writing and music and opens children to a world full of mischievious, magical and entrancing stories from England to India, Africa to New Zealand. Children will delve into stories that have been passed on through generations, write their own tales and create a collage to celebrate the stunning diversity of imagination across our plannet.
Ticket is Free and can be booked at Creative Creatures on www.creativecreatures.moonfruit.com or tel: 01929 555157.
Venue: Bournemouth Library, 22 The Triangle, Bournemouth BH2 5RQ.
Above left: Mario Reading.
Above centre: Peter John Cooper emoting!
Above right: Keith Bennett, performance poet in full flow!
Saturday 17th October, 5.30 - 7 pm, £3 in advance or £4 at the door.
Poetry Trio Mash Up
An entertaining evening of comedy, improvisation, music, magic and poetry with the effervescent trio of: Keith Bennett, Peter John Cooper and Mario Reading.
Tickets are £3 in advance or £4 and include one drink.
Venue: The Winchester Pub, 39 Poole Hill, Bournemouth BH2 5PW.
Sunday 18th October
Bournemouth Literary Heritage Walk with John Walker, local guide and historian
Official Bournemouth guide and local historian John Walker will be leading his annual "Bournemouth's Literary Heritage" guided walk on Sunday 18th October 2009. This walk, which lasts about 1 3/4 (1.75) hours at a reasonable pace and ends at the Square, aims to cover all Bournemouth's links with the literary greats - what they wrote or said while living in and/or visiting the town. Reference will be made to Shelley, Stevenson, Hardy, Tolkien, Wilde and many more. See www.bournemouthwalks.com for further details. The walk leaves from outside St Peter's Church, Hinton Road, Central Bournemouth at 2pm on Sunday 18th October.
The cost is £3.50 per person. There is no need to book, just turn up.
For further details, contact John on Johnwal@hotmail.co.uk
For more details or to book tickets, please contact Lillian Avon on 01202 417535 or email her at: info@bournemouthliteraryfestival.co.uk