Litteraturfestival på Strynø: for store og små
When the summer holidays arrive, Strynø Litterære Forening (Strynø Literary Association) kicks off the Literature for young and old festival.
Strynø's annual literature festival in the green ‘LITERATURE FOR BIG & SMALL’ will once again - for the fith year in a row - take place during the first weekend of the summer holidays. This year: 27 - 29 June 2025
At Strynø's summer festival, you can meet your favourite author - or be inspired by a new one - up close, with a view of the sea and island. Authors will read and engage in dialogue with the audience under an old tree, in a flowering garden, on a rocking jetty or around the campfire in the evening, where professionals in the art of oral storytelling will also tell captivating stories from the archipelago. All in the familiar relaxed, attentive and unpretentious ‘Strynø Litterære Forening’ setting.
Strynø is only a 30-minute ferry ride from Rudkøbing and is always worth a visit for the whole family - but not least in the midsummer sun and in such good company as this weekend.
The programme for Strynø Literature Festival 2025:
FRIDAY 27.06.25
6.00 pm
COMMON DINNER at Strynø Gl. Mejeri (authors and audience.)
19.30 pm, MEJERIET
Ø-MANIFEST THEN & NOW: Authors Maj My Humaidan and Nadia Kløvedal Reich debate the ‘Ærø Manifesto’ (2023) and the ‘Langeland Manifesto’ (1972) with the audience.
SATURDAY 28 JUNE.
11.00 am, SKOLEN
Author Gry Kappel Jensen, writing workshop for older children, about the fantasy genre.
12.30 pm, MEJERIETS TERRACE
Author Anne Klahn, writing workshop for young and old, based on her programme for upper secondary school and youth school at Ørstedskolen.
2.00 pm MEJERIET
Poet, author Ulrikka Gernes on her novel ‘A girl left the room’.
15.30, SMAKKECENTRET
Poet Christel Wiinblad on her new poetry collection ‘Deep Purple’.
17.00, UNDER THE OLD TREE AT SMAKKEN
Author Morten Pape on his writing (most recently ‘Key Child’)
6.30 pm
COMMUNAL DINNER AT THE SMACK CENTRE
19.30, AT THE SMAKKEN CENTRE'S BOWLING PLACE
Poet Nicolaj Stochholm.
21.00, AROUND THE CAMP BOWL
Fellow storytellers Aske Ebbesen and André Andersen tell sea and robbery stories, based on legends and travellers' tales from Strynø and the archipelago.
SUNDAY 29 JUNE.
10.00 am, SMAKKECENTRETS TELTPLADS:
Storyteller ELLEN MORTENSEN talks to the youngest, based on her storytelling programme with students from Strynø School and Nordskolen in May.
11.00 am, HAVEN VED MEJERIET:
ABOUT STRYNØ'S POETIC SOUND WALK ‘November bursts in May’ by the creators: Stine Arbo and Marie Leth Meilvang.
13.30, MEJERIET
Gyldendal editor SIMON PASTERNAK on new winds in the publishing industry
14.00, THE DAIRY
Translator SARA KOCH on her work translating Karl Ove Knausgård, among others
15.30, THE SMACK CENTRE
Author LIV NIEMANN DUVÅ on her new novel, ‘Down from Heaven’
16.30, SMAKKE CENTRE CAMPFIRE
Author SIGNE GJESSING - ‘You can also just write about the stars’.
17.30, UNDER THE OLD TREE AT THE SMACK CENTRE
Author Madame Nielsen on ‘The Book of the Dead’
18.30, AT THE HARBOUR:
SPECIAL GUESTS & CLOSING with snacks and bubbles
COMMUNAL DINNER AT THE DAIRY