Event reports
Here is a complete list of the events that took place at the 2003 Festival together with links to reports of what took place:
| September | |
| Sunday 14 | The Queen of the Planets with Cat Weatherill and Daniel Morden |
| Monday 15 | Durham Horror Story: Youth showcase |
| Thursday 18 | Writing the North: Sean O'Brien and Linda France |
| Friday 19 | Patrick McCabe and Tony White |
| Saturday 20 | Humphrey Carpenter: I Told You I Was Ill - Spike Milligan |
| Monday 22 | Vane Women: Light and Dark |
| Friday 26 | Guy Masterson: Fern Hill |
| Saturday 27 | Ken Campbell: I'm not mad, I just read different books |
| Sunday 28 | The Golem: told by Shonaleigh Cumbers |
| October | |
| Thursday 2 | Razed Voices One: with Kate Fox and The Travelling Waverlies |
| Friday 3 | Mooning Demons, with Valerie Laws and Ann Alexander |
| Saturday 4 | The Frankenstein Dialogues, with Ben Haggarty and Sianed Jones |
| Saturday 4 | Alexei Sayle |
| Sunday 5 | And then she screamed... with Ramsey Campbell, Simon Clark, Chaz Brenchley and Elle Ludkin. Chair: Gail-Nina Anderson. |
| Wednesday 8 | Whisper Ring Uwe Kolbe plus Johannes Bauer |
| Friday 10 | Ouroboros Rules with Sean Burke, Ron Butlin, Joel Lane and Henry Sutton. Chair: John Williams. |
| Monday 13 | John Hegley: The Sound of Paint Drying. |
| Tuesday 14 | Hydrogen Jukebox: Death Metal Special. |
| Wednesday 15 | Dan Rhodes and J Robert Lennon |
| Thursday 16 | Anne Fine: The Monster Child Razed Voices Two |
| Friday 17 | John Kinsella and Chris Wallace-Crabbe |
| Saturday 18 | Medbh McGuckian and Micheal O'Siadhail |
| Sunday 19 | Steve Bell If |
| Sunday 19 | Terry Jones Was Chaucer Murdered? |
