Each year, in October, residents of the small town of Mere in Wiltshire, along with their friends, get together to put on a Literary festival to support the local Linkscheme charity. The festival caters for a wide range of interests including events for children, and audiences are drawn from those living in this rural district and visitors to the town, among them those shortlisted or commended in the biennial open poetry competition.s.
When? 2016 marks the 20th running of the Mere Literary Festival. The Festival will take place from 10th-16th October.
Where? Mere, Warminster, Wiltshire, UK
Who? TBA
Website? Mere Literary Festival
Festival Director? 2015 - Adrienne Howell
Previous Festivals? Established in 1997
2015 - Victoria Glendinning Mere Historical Society (Rose Cox) Marion Molteno Pennybank Writers Melanie Gow Mere Gardening Club (The NGS Yellow Book) Catherine Simmonds (School workshops) Alan Chedzoy Stewart Binns Sonia Purnell Heather Chamberlain Tony Davies Chris McCully (Poetry Competition Head Judge)
2014: James Taylor Philip Coward Malcolm Welshman Christopher Nicholson Jennie Ann Rake John O'Neill Katie Campbell Rebecca Westcott Damien Lewis Gilla Primrose (a.k.a. Anna Birch)
2013
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