Festival team
Festival Chief Executive and Director: Sally Dunsmore
Festival Board Directors: George Warren (Chairman), John Harris (President Emeritus), Graham Benson (Deputy Chairman)
Festival President: Miles Young
Special Advisor: Tony Byrne
Strategic Advisor: Lucian Hudson
Director of Children’s and Young People’s Programme: Andrea Reece andrea.reece@zen.co.uk
Executive Consultant – Film, Television and Theatre: Graham Benson
Website and content editor: Derek Holmes
Graphic design: Stafford & Stafford
Festival manager: Brenden Carlton
Assistant to Special Advisor: Sarah Burch
Director of Academic Programmes: Jem Poster
PR and Assistant to the Director: Katie Read
Marketing: Rachel Byrne
Green Room Managers: Rachel Byrne and Jill Dunsmore
Programme printers: Oxford University Press
Digital Strategy & Website Design: BearRamElk
Consultant Chef: Paul Bloomfield
Sheldonian Theatre events manager: Ben Truesdale
St Hilda’s College writers’ day programme director: Triona Adams
Photography: KT Bruce
Festival event assistants: Isabelle Simmonds and Emma Roderick
Festival stewards: We also thank all the voluntary festival stewards for their time and generous support throughout the festival. If you are interested in volunteering at the festival please contact volunteers@oxfordliteraryfestival.org
Patrons: Dame Joan Bakewell, Professor Colin Blakemore, Professor John Carey, Professor Richard Dawkins, Daisy Goodwin, Joanne Harris, Peter Kemp, Mark Lawson, The Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, CH, PC, Dr David Starkey, Sir Peter Stothard, Ian and Carol Sellars, Professor Ian Goldin, Alex Preston



























































