Literary Festival Directory A-Z
The list below includes some events that are no-longer being staged - recorded here for the posterity.
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Aberderon - RS Thomas Literary Festival
Africa Writes - Festival of African Literature
The Agatha Christie FestivalAlderley Edge Community Book Festival (Oxfam)
Ampthill Litfest (formerly Ampthill Literary Festival) - Bedfordhsire
ArchWay With Words Book Festival, LondonAsia House Festival of Asian Literature
Aspects Irish Literature Festival
Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival
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Bard of Armagh Festival of Humerous Verse
Bare Lit Festival - A Festival for Writers of Colour
Barnes Children's Literature Festival
Barnt Green BookFest
Bath Festival of Children’s Literature
BeaconLit - The Beacon Villages festival of books and writing
Benedict Kiely Literary Weekend Festival
Beverley Nichols Weekend (The), Gatton, Cambridgeshire
Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature & Thought
Beyond the Border - Wales International Storytelling Festival -
BIG LIt- The Stewartry Book Festival - Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
Big Oak Literary and Arts Festival - Londonderry
Birmingham Literature Festival
Black Hut Festival of Writing, Music & Film- Hastings, East Sussex
Blairgowrie, Rattray & The Glens Book Festival
Blenheim Palace Literary Festival
Bold Strokes LGBTQ Book Festival, Nottingham
Books, Borders, Bikes, Peebleshire, Scotland
BOOKED! The Convention BookTastic Book Festival. Children's book festival, BedfordBorderlines Carlisle Book Festival
Bournemouth Literary Festival (ceased we believe)
Bournville BookFest - Birmingham, West Midlands
Brentford Children's Literary Festival - Essex
Bristol Festival of Literature
Bristol Poetry Festival - Reborn as Lyra -The New Bristol Poetry Festival in 2019
Bristol Women's Literature Festival
BroadstairsLit - Kent
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival
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Caerleon Festival - Literature on the Lawn
Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival
Chagword - Dartmoor's Literary Festival in Chagford
Chalke Valley History Festival
Charmouth Literary Festival - Dorset
Cheltenham Literature Festival
Chiddingstone Castle Literary Festival , West Kent
Chipping Camden Literature Festival
Chipping Norton Literary Festival
Chorleywood Literature Festival (edge of the Chilterns)
Cirencester Children's Literary Festival
Clayesmore School Festival of Reading
Cleckheaton Literature Festival
Cork International Short Story Festival
Crossing the Tees: Middlesbrough and Stockton Book Festival (formerly Middlesbrough Literary Festival)
Croydon Literary Festival - Greater London
Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival
Cúirt International Festival of Literature (Galway, Ireland)
Cuisle Limerick City International Poetry Festival
Cuckfield BookFest - West Sussex
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Dalkey Book Festival (Republic of Ireland)
Darlington Arts Festival - incorporating the Writers Festival, County Durham
Dartington Hall Way with Words Festival
Delapre Festival of Books - Northampton
Derbyshire Literature Festival
Diva Literary Festival - Birmingham
Do Not Go Gently - Music & Literary Festival (Dylan Thomas)
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Edinburgh International Book Festival
Evesham Festival of Words - Worcestershire
Exeter Literary Festival, DevonEype Literary Festivals, Dorset
Faversham Literary Festival - Kent
Festilitt - Parisot Literary Festival (France)
First FictionsFishbourne Literary Festival 'Fishbourne Loves Books' - West Sussex
Fowey Festival of Words and Music
Frome Festival - Writers and Publishers Day
Furness Litfest- CumbriaGibraltar International Literary Festival
Greenacres Writers' Literary Festival
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Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival
Harrogate International Festivals’ Raworths Literature and Lecture Series
(The) Hastings Lit Fest - East Sussex
Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival, Gloucestershire, Cotswalds
Helston - The Little Local Litfest - Cornwall
Hillingdon Festival of History and Literature
HowTheLightGetsIn - Powys, Wales - Arts festival with comprehensive literary component
Howth Midsummer Literary Arts Festival, Ireland
Huddersfield Literature Festival
Humber Mouth Literature Festival
Isle of Wight Literary Festival
Immrama Lismore Festival of Travel Writing
John Hewitt International Summer School
John O'Connor Writing School and Literary Arts Festival - Armagh, Northern Ireland
Kent Festival of Writing - County Kent
Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine
Kibworth Book Festival - Leicestershire
King's Sutton Literary Festival
Knutsford Literature Festival -
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Llangwm Literary Festival, Pembrokeshire, WalesLeeds Lit Fest, Yorkshire
Literary Kitchen Festival - Peckham, London
Liverpool Literary Festival - Merseyside, North- West England
Lewes Speakers FestivalLinlithgow Book Festival, West Lothian
Books Unbound Festival - Hammersmith, London
London Sports Writing Festival
London Welsh Literature Festival
Louder Than Words Festival - Manchester
Lowestoft Library Literary Festival
LSE Space for Thought Literary Weekend
Lyra -The New Bristol Poetry Festival
Manchester Literature Festival
Manchester Childrens Book Festival
Marlborough Literature Festival
Middlesbrough Literary Festival now reborn as - Crossing the Tees: Middlesbrough and Stockton Book Festival
Minehead Literary Festival, Somerset
Montgomeryshire Literary Festival (Monty Lit Fest) - Montgomeryshire, Wales
MurderOneFest. Ireland's International Crime Writing Festival. DublinNarbeth Book Fair, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Newcastle Poetry FestivalNewcastle Winter Book Festival
Newham Word Festival, East London
Nibfest - Notting Hill International Book Festival
NiddFest Literary Festival - Celbrating Nature in Writing
Noirwich Crime Writing Festival
North London Literary Festival
Northwich River Weaver Literary Festival
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Off the Shelf Festival of Words
Omagh Literary Festival Honouring Bendidict Kiely (formerly Bendidict Kiely Weekend)
Ottery St. Mary Coleridge Literary Festival
Oswestry LitFestOxford (Sunday Times) Literary Festival
Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest)
Parisot Literary Festival - Festilitt
Penistone Literature Festival - South Yorkshire
Penzance Literary Festival Cornwall
Petworth Literary Weekend, West Sussex
Plymouth International Book Festival
Pocklingtom Literature Festival
Poetry in Aldeburgh taking place 2nd -4th November, 2018 (formerly Aldeburgh Poetry Festival)
Pontypridd Children’s Book Festival - Gŵyl Lyfrau Plant PontypriddPop Up Festival (various locations as the name implies!)
Portobello Book Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Proms at St Jude's Music and Literary Festival (Hampstead, London)
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Redbridge Book and Media Festival
Red Line Book Festival, Dublin, Ireland
Revolving Words - the Festival of Railway Literature
Richmond Upon Thames Literature Festival (Formerly Book Now Festival) RS Thomas Literary Festival - Aberderon, North WalesRunnymede International Literary Festival
Rye Arts Festival - East Sussex (strong literary stream most years)
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Salisbury International Arts Festival
Salisbury Literary Festival, Wiltshire
Scarborough Literature Festival
Scottish International Storytelling Festival
SEA FEVER - North Norfolk's Festival of Poetry + Prose - Saturday May 12, 2018 (previously Poetry-next-the-sea, Wells-next-the-Sea which ran from 1997 to 2017)Shoreham Wordfest (Shoreham-by-the-Sea) - West Sussex
Shoreham Wordfest Celebrating Shakespeare- Shoreham-by-the-Sea, West SussexShrewsbury Children's Bookfest ,Shropshire
Shrewsbury Festival of Literature, Shropshire
Sidmouth Literary Festival - East Devon
Skulduggery in Stowmarket – Suffolk
SO: To Speak - Southhampton's Festival of Words
South Asian Literature Festival (SALF)
Southam Book Festival, Warwickshire
St Clementin Bilingual LitFest
Stoke Newington Literary Festival
Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival
Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival
Stroud Book Festival - Gloucestershire, England
Sturminster Newton Literary Festival - Dorset
Surrey Heath Literary Festival
Stoke Newington Literary Festival
Strokestown International Poetry Festival
Swanwick Writers' Summer School
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Ted Hughes Festival, West Yorkshire
Thame Arts & Literature festival
Thames Valley History FestivalTheakstons Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
The Word - A Day for writers in Lancashire
Todmorden Book Festival, West Yorkshire
Throckmorton Literary Festival
Tidelines Book Festival - North Ayreshire
Tiverton Literary Festival - Devon
Tring Book Festival, Hertfordshire
UK Southern Book Show - West SussexUniversity of Aberdeen Writers' Festival
University of East Anglia Literary Festival
University of Warwick Book Festival
University of Warwick Book Festival at Warwick Arts Centre (BookFest)
Unpublished Fiction Writers Open Reading - Wood Green, London
VERVE Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word - Birmingham City Centre
Voewood Festival - Arts Festival with strong literary stream
Wantage (not just) Betjeman Literary Festival
Wessex Children’s Book Festival
Westbourne Book Binge, Bournemouth - Dorset
Westgate Literary Festival. Kent
Weston Literature Festival- Weston-super-Mare, Somerset
Weymouth Leviathan - Maritime Literary Festival - Dorset
Whitlit - Whitsable Literary Festival
Wigan and Leigh Words Festival
Winchester Poetry FestivalWinchester Writers’ Conference Festival and Book Fair
Wolds Word (Louth, Alford and Lincolnshire Wolds)
Words in Walden - Saffron Walden, Essex
Worlds Literature Festival (Norwich Writers Centre)
World Literature Weekend (London Review of Books)
Worcestershire Literary FestivalWords in Motion at the Big Chill
Yeovil Literary Festival - Somerset
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