Literary Festivals 2024

April

Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival
Cambridge Wordfest
Cardiff Children’s Literature Festival
Chipping Camden Literature Festival
Chipping Norton Literary Festival
Colonsay Book Festival
Eype Literary Festivals, Dorset
First Fictions
Free the Word!
Frodsham Literature Festival
Hexham Book Festival
Hoo’s Kids Book Fest
Laugharne Weekend Festival
Leigh and Wigan Words Together Festival
London Word Festival
Nibfest – Notting Hill International Book Festival
Redbridge Book and Media Festival
Scarborough Literature Festival
Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
Wise Words Festival
York Literature Festival

May

Aberdeen Writers Festival
Boswell Book Festival
Bournemouth Festival of Words
Brighton Festival
Chalfont St Giles and Jordans Literary Festival
Charleston Literary Festival
Chipping Camden Literature Festival
Derbyshire Literature Festival
Eastbourne Book Fest
Festival of Stories, Lytham
Fowey Festival of Words and Music
Guernsey Literary Festival
Greenacres Writers’ Literary Festival
Leicester Book Festival
Listowel Writers’ Week, County Kerry
Middlewich Literary Festival
Prestwich Book Festival
Sheffield Lyric Festival
Stratford Upon Avon Literary Festival
St. Ives Literature Festival
Swindon Festival of Literature
Salisbury International Arts Festival
Surrey Heath Literary Festival
Ullapool Book Festival
University of Aberdeen Writers’ Festival
University of Warwick Book Festival at Warwick Arts Centre (Bookfest)
Telegraph Hay Festival

June

Althorp Literary Festival
BeaconLit – The Beacon Villages festival of books and writing
Belfast Book Festival
Belfast Festival at Queens
Beyond the Border – Wales International Storytelling Festival
Borders Book Festival
Broadstairs Dickens Festival
Chalke Valley History Festival
Chichester Festival
Dalkey Book Festival
Dinefwr Literature Festival
Eastbourne Book Fest
Felixstowe Book Festival
Hay Festival Kells
Hebden Bridge Festival
University of Warwick Book Festival
Listowel Writers’ Week, County Kerry
Middlesbrough Literary Festival
Northwich River Weaver Literary Festival
Prestwich Book Festival
Stoke Newington Literary Festival
Telegraph Hay Festival
Wembley Wordfest
Winchester Writers’ Conference Festival and Book Fair
Worcestershire Literary Festival
Worlds Literature Festival (Norwich Writers Centre)
World Literature Weekend (London Review of Books)

July

Ashbourne Festival (Ashbourne)
BBC Proms Literary Stream
Beyond the Border – Wales International Storytelling Festival (Biennial even years)
Buxton Festival (Derbyshire)
Chichester Festival
Dartington Hall Way with Words Festival
Ealing Literary Festival
Frome Festival – Writers and Publishers Day
Harrogate International Festivals’ Raworths Literature and Lecture Series
Hay Festival Kells
Ipswich Arts Festival (Suffolk)
John Clare Festival
Latitude Festival (Suffolk)
Literary Footsteps in the Forest at Epping Forest (Essex)
Ludlow Festival (Shropshire)
Manchester Childrens Book Festival (Biennial)
Penzance Literary Festival (Cornwall)
Port Eliot Lit Festival (Cornwall)
Shoreditch Festival
Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival
Theakston Old Peculier Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
TS Eliot Festival
West Cork Literary Festival (Ireland)
West Meon Festival of Books

August

Edinburgh International Book Festival (Scotland)
Inverness Book Festival (Scotland)
Voewood Festival (Norfolk)

September

Alderley Edge Community Book Festival (Cheshire)
Appledore Book Festival (Devonshire)
Bath Festival of Children’s Literature (Somerset)
Bloody Scotland (Scotland)
Bristol Poetry Festival (Gloucestershire)
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival (Devonshire)
Graham Greene International Festival (Hertfordshire)
Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival (London)
Ilkley Literature Festival (Yorkshire)
Kings Lynn Poetry Festival (Norfolk)
Nairn Book & Arts Festival (Scotland)
St Ives September Festival (Cornwall)

October

Appledore Book Festival (Devonshire)
Athlone Literary Festival (Ireland)
Bath Festival of Children’s Literature (Somerset)
Belfast Festival at Queens (Ireland)
Beverley Literature Festival (Yorkshire)
Bewdley Festival (Worcestershire)
Birmingham Book Festival (Midlands)
Bournemouth Festival of Words (Devon)
Brighton and Hove City Reads (Sussex)
Burnham Market Book Festival
Canterbury Festival (Kent)
Chapter and Verse Festival
Cheltenham Festival of Literature
Chester Literature Festival (Cheshire)
Crystal Palace Children’s Book Festival
Durham Book Festival
Dylan Thomas Festival (Wales)
Essex Poetry Festival
Exeter Poetry Festival (Devon)
Frinton Library Festival
Guildford Book Festival (Surrey)
Havant Literary Festival
Hillingdon Festival of History and Literature
Ilkley Literature Festival (Yorkshire)
Knutsford Literary Festival
Lancaster Lit Fest (Lancashire)
Lewes Live Literature
Literary Dundee (Scotland)
Liverpool Irish Festival
Manchester Literary Festival
Mere Literary Festival
Morley Literature Festival (Yorkshire)
New Writers UK
North Pennines Story Telling Festival
Poole Literary Festival
Saffron Walden Literary Festival
Scottish International Storytelling Festival (Scotland)
Sentinel Literature Festival
Sevenoaks Literary Celebration
DSC South Asian Literature Festival
Thame Arts & Literature festival
Times Literature Cheltenham Festival
Torbay Poetry Festival
Warwick Words (Warwickshire)
Wellington Literary Festival
Wells Festival of Literature
Wigtown Book Festival (Scotland)
Wirral Bookfest
Word Up
Wolds Word (Lincolnshire)
Wonderful Words
Woodstock Celebrates Books
Wordsworth Trust

November

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival (Suffolk)
Bard of Armagh Festival of Humorous Verse
Belfast Festival at Queens (Ireland)
Bridport Literary Festival (Dorset)
Chorleywood Literature Festival (Hertfordshire)
Cambridge Wordfest (Cambridgeshire)
Dublin Book Festival (Ireland)
Dylan Thomas Festival (Wales)
Folkestone Literary Festival (Kent)
Lavenham Literary Festival (Suffolk)
Lennoxlove Book Festival (Scotland)
Linlithgow Book Festival (Scotland)
Literary Leicester Festival (Leicestershire)
Northern Children’s Book Festival (Northumberland)
Petworth Literary Weekend (West Sussex)
Richmond Upon Thames Literature Festival (London)
Small Publishers Fair (London)
Southwold Literature Festival (Devon)
The London History Festival (London)
Wordpool (Lancashire)