Penny Speaking at Brontë Women's Writing Festival 2025

Penny is one of the authors appearing at this year’s Brontë Women’s Writing Festival in Haworth, West Yorkshire.

The annual festival celebrating women writers across fiction, non-fiction, poetry and scripts, takes this place year from Friday 26 - Sunday 28 September. Inspired by the Brontës’ evocative northern home, this year’s focus is on writers from and based in the North, and on stories that centre around northern landscapes and Brontë influence. 

Established and new writers speaking at the festival include best-selling authors Tracy Chevalier, Holly Ringland and Jennie Godfrey, as well Oscar-winning writer and actress Emerald Fennell, who’ll be discussing her new Wuthering Heights film adaptation, due to hit cinemas in 2026.

Local writer Linda Green will deliver in-person and online novel-writing courses, for writers inspired by the Brontës and the Yorkshire landscape. 

Image courtesy of Brontë Parsonage Museum

Full event and ticket details will be available on the Bronte Parsonage Museum website nearer the date.

Penny Batchelor, who was born and brought up in South Yorkshire, has been a trustee of the Bronte Parsonage Museum since 2020. She holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in English Literature, having specialised in Victorian literature.