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Any literary festival, no matter what their size or location is welcome to join
Held every other year, Calabash is three days and nights of readings and live music beside the beach in Treasure Beach, Jamaica.
The South Dakota Festival of Books annually features more than 60 regional, national and international authors and publishing professionals.
Founded by the Portuguese writer Ana Filomena Amaral, director of Arte-Via Cooperative, based in Lousã, Portugal
The much-loved Carlisle based festival, celebrating the written and spokenword, will run from Thursday 30 September to Sunday 3 October
Ideogramma is an encounter of writers and poets, from all over the world, who came together for four days of literature
Brussels Planetarium Poetry Fest is a niche festival, fully devoted to contemporary avant-garde, in conversation with the mainstraim.
The biennial Passa Porta Festival brings over 100 national and international writers, thinkers and artists to Brussels for 4 days in March.
The Newcastle Writers Festival will celebrate its 14th year in 2026.
A celebration of reading, writing, and publishing, the Kentucky Book Festival takes place each November in Lexington
We are an annual literary festival normally held on the last weekend of November.
The Southbank Centre is the UK’s largest arts centre and is one of the top five visitor attractions, with a year-round literature programme
FILBA FOUNDATION is an ONG dedicated to the promotion of literature in all its forms and among all kind of readers.
Read My World is a yearly international literature festival which aims to celebrate literature in the broadest sense of the word
New Zealand's premier festival of books and writing, delivering a six-day, 200 event programme annually in May
Launched in 2006, the Seoul International Writers’ Festival (SIWF) is a global literary festival
More a year-round literary festival, with pop up minifestivals within including JLF London, Africa Writes and others.
The Margate Bookie began in a disused warehouse in 2015. It now holds a four-day day festival
Reflecting the city to its residents, its literature to the nation, and its creative ambition to the world.
The tenth International Writers Festival in Jerusalem was held this year in an unusual hybrid format.
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The world’s oldest Literature Festival (est. 1949) and the Autumn’s premier literary event. Each year we welcome close to 1,000 writers, thought-leaders and agenda-setters from around the world for a 10-day celebration of the written and spoken word in the centre of regency Cheltenham, a beautiful spa town on the edge of The Cotswolds.
Durham Book Festival is a Durham County Council event produced by New Writing North. The festival takes place in and around the beautiful city of Durham each October and features a range of thinkers, writers and performers, as well as a commissions programme and community projects.
Established in 2017 and now in its seventh year, Cliveden Literary Festival will take place from 21st – 22nd September 2024. Hosted at the iconic Cliveden House in Berkshire, the 2023 festival heard Zadie Smith and Maggie O’Farrell explain their magical literary craft and discuss the future of literary fiction; Mary Beard and Tom…
