The Gibunco Gibraltar International Literary Festival is almost upon the Rock, starting as it does on the 12th of this month. Guests will be flown in, they will discuss their writing, there will be signings aplenty and one hopes a splendid time will be guaranteed for all.
However, literary festivals have come in for criticism from time to time, not least from the New Statesman, owner of this Gibraltar hub on the website. The article to which that link leads is not about the Gib festival as such but it’s fairly damning about the way some festivals have moved: packed out with celebrities rather than writers and padded out with comedians and politicians. Worse, it suggests, the writers rarely get paid for any of their appearances.
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