• Olivia (Liv) Chapman is an experienced event manager, book festival programmer, event chair, conference facilitator and workshop leader.

    She is Creative Director at Hexham Book Festival in Northumberland, and works with Word Up North on the BBC Contains Strong Language festival and Ilkley Literature Festival. She is a freelance programmer with Cheltenham Festivals across the Literature and Science Festivals, and Stratford Literary Festival in Warwickshire.

    She has worked with literature development organisations across the country, including the Society of Authors.

    She has worked in Publishing and the Literature Development charity sector since 2005, and has worked on festivals and writer development projects across the country. Liv has engaged communities of all identities, faiths, ethnicities, and interests to write. Liv has also worked with schools and MATs to develop programmes of work to bring writers into schools to inspire children to read and write.

    Liv’s training is in Marketing and PR (Chartered Institute of Marketing, 2009). She’s a graduate of the London School of Economics (BSc International Relations, 2005) and was part of the 2015 AMEX Leadership Academy, a Common Purpose Programme for non-profit leaders in partnership with the American Express Foundation that supports a new generation of Resilient Changemakers.

    Liv is available for freelance work, and can be contacted below.

    Find out more:

    Book Festivals

    Writer Training

    Schools and Young People

    Work, education and training

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