2014 will see the City's first Literary Festival, presented by local newspaper the Herts 
Advertiser and sponsored by The Book Midwife, will be a four-day celebration of story-telling, of every kind: great works of literature, journalistic writing, poetry, non-fiction, copy-writing and blogging will all be included.
St Albans does have some particularly heavy-weight literary boasts. The first draft of the Magna Carta was drawn up in St Albans cathedral; Francis Bacon, scientist and writer, thought by many to be the author of some of Shakespeare’s plays, lived in Gorhambury House; Dickens penned some of Bleak House in the City; and the brilliant scientist and writer Stephen Hawking was educated at the oldest public school in the country, St Albans School, which sits in the shadow of the Cathedral in the City centre.
When? 2015 TBC - No event in 2015 as far as we can tell - ed
6th-9th November, 2014
Where? St. Albans, Herts
Who? In 2014- Liz Fraser, Tamsyn Murray, Mike Carey, Lucy Saxon, Leigh Russell, James Runcie, Jessica Chivers, Carol Hedges, Anthony Nixon ++ Check out authors booked
Twitter? @StALitfest
Facebook? St Albans Literary Festival
If you are involved in this festival you can update or change details via the organisers page . Authors can list here.