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LIST OF BOOK FESTIVALS in UK and Ireland

I compiled this list after struggling to find a comprehensive index of book festivals in the UK and Ireland online, hoping that it will eventually contain  every book festival.  To make the list more manageable, I haven't included any poetry-only festivals, festivals dedicated to one author, festivals where literature is only a peripheral part of the event, or festivals not active since 2020. ** Festivals are now sorted chronologically, from the current month. **

TBC - To be confirmed. TBA - To be announced.

If you know of any festival that hasn’t been included, message me on social media or email me at alanjonesbooks@gmail.com.

Feel free to share this list or use it as you see fit, but I'd appreciate being credited, and it would be great if you could take a look round my website while you’re here, or have a glance at my blog.

Many thanks to everyone who has sent in festival information. Special thanks must go to @Scotbookfests and @LitScotland for their Scottish book festival lists, and Eoghan Egan for sending me his list of Irish festivals, all of which were an immense help.

REGION

GENRE

DATES

EVENT

LOCATION

TWITTER

CONTACT

Scotland

Crime

Regular throughout year

Noir at the bar edinburgh

Edinburgh, Scotland

@NoirBarEdin

@CollinsJacky

England

All

Regular throughout year

WORDfest Crawley

Crawley, West Sussex, England

@crawleywordfest

info@wordfestcrawley.org

England

All

Regular throughout year

Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival

Hawkesbury Upton, Gloucestershire, England

@HULitFest

Web Form

England

All

Regular throughout year

Milton Keynes Literary Festival

Milton Keynes, England

@Mklitfest

Web Form

England

Children

Regular throughout year

The Manchester Children’s Book Festival

Manchester University, Manchester, England

@MCBFestival

N\A

England

Crime

Regular throughout year

Hull Noir

Hull, East Yorkshire, England

@HullNoir

Web Form

England

All

Nov 1-16, 2024

Tring Book Festival

Tring, Hertfordshire, England

@tringbookfest

Web Form

England

All

Nov 3-9, 2024

Bridport Literary Festival

Bridport, Dorset, England

@BridLitFestival

bridport.tic@bridport-tc.gov.uk

England

All

Nov 3, 2024

Berkofest Adult Book Festival

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England

@BerkoFest

N\A

England

All

Nov 6-10, 2024

Stroud Book Festival

Stroud, Gloucestershire, England

@BookStroud

info@stroudbookfestival.org.uk

Ireland

All

Nov 6-10, 2024

Dublin Book Festival

Dublin, Ireland

@DublinBookFest

info@dublinbookfestival.com

Scotland

All

Nov 8-10, 2024

Mallaig Book Festival

Mallaig, Lochaber, Scotland

@WriteHoolie

Web Form

England

All

Nov 14-19, 2024

Derby Book Festival (Autumn edition)

Derby, England

@DerbyBookFest

sian@derbybookfestival.co.uk

England

All

Nov 14-24, 2024

The Shape of Things to Come

Folkestone, Kent, England

@CreativeFstone

info@creativefolkestone.org.uk

England

Outdoor

Nov 21-24, 2024

Kendal Mountain Book Festival

Kendal, Cumbria, England

@KendalBookFest

nfo@mountainfest.co.uk

Scotland

All

Nov 23-28, 2024

Pentland Book Festival

Currie, Edinburgh, Scotland

@PentBookFest

Web Form

England

All

Nov 23-24, 2024

Cambridge Literary Festival (Winter)

Cambridge, England

@camlitfest

hello@cambridgeliteraryfestival.com

Scotland

All

Nov 23-24, 2024

Cove & Kilcreggan Book Festival

Cove Burgh Hall,  Cove, Argyll, Scotland

N\A


England

All

Nov 25-Dec 1, 2024

St Andrew's Book Festival

London, England

@standrewsbkfest

info@standrewsbookfestival.org

England

All

Dec 4-7 2024

Newcastle Noir

Newcastle, England

@newcastlenoir

Web Form

England

Travel

Jan 30-Feb 2, 2025

Stanfords Travel Writers’ Festival

Manchester, England

@StanfordsTravel

Web Form

England

All

Jan 31-Feb 2, 2025

Wolverhampton Literature Festival

Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England

@WolvesLitFest

art.gallery@wolverhampton.gov.uk

Scotland

All

Feb 8-11, 2025

Winter Words Festival, Pitlochry

Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland

@PITLOCHRYft

Web Form

England

All

Feb 18-Mar 9, 2025

Portsmouth BookFest

Portsmouth, Hampshire, England

@PompeyBookFest

bookfest@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

England

All

Feb 21-Mar 2, 2025

Faversham Literary Festival

Faversham,  Kent, England

@FavershamLit

info@favershamliteraryfestival.org

Scotland

Crime

Feb 2025 TBA

Granite Noir

Aberdeen, Scotland

@GraniteNoirFest

Web Form

England

Religious Literature

Feb 28-Mar 2, 2025

Church Times Festival of Faith and Literature

Banbury, Oxfordshire, England

@faithlitfest

events@hymnsam.co.uk

England

All

Feb 2025 TBA

Derby Book Festival

Derby, England

@DerbyBookFest

sian@derbybookfestival.co.uk

England

Crime

Mar 1, 2025

Bay Tales Live

Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, England

@bay_tales

baytales20@gmail.com

England

Jewish

Mar 1-9, 2025

Jewish Book Week

Kings Place, Kings Cross, London, England

@JewishBookWeek

info@jewishbookweek.com

Scotland

All

Mar 3-9, 2025

Kirkcudbright Book Week

Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland

N\A

deangriss@btinternet.com

IIreland

All

Mar 7-9, 2025

Ennis Book Club Festival

Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland

@ebcf

info@ennisbookclubfestival.com

England

All

Mar 11–13, 2025

London Book Fair

Olympia, London, England

@LondonBookFair

Web Form

England

All

Mar 12–16, 2025

Words by the Water

Keswick, England.

@WBTWKeswick

info@wordsbythewaterkeswick.com

England

All

Mar 2025 TBA

Deptford Literature Festival

Deptford, London, England

@STWevents

festival@spreadtheword.org.uk

England

All

Mar 27-30, 2025

Lichfield Literary Festival

Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

@lichfieldfest

boxoffice@lichfieldfestival.org

England

All

Mar 29-Apr 6, 2025

Oxford Literary Festival

Oxford, England

@oxfordlitfest

info@oxfordliteraryfestival

England

All

Mar 2025 TBA

Litfest

Lancaster, Lancashire, England

@Litfest

marketing@litfest.org

England

All

Mar 2025 TBA

York Literature Festival

York, England

@yorklitfest

info@yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk

Scotland

Crime

Mar 2025 TBA

Wee Crime Festival

Grantown on Spey, Scotland

N\A

thebookmark.grantown@googlemail.com

England

All

Mar 2025 TBA

Shrewsbury Festival of Literature

Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

@SY1litfest

info@shrewsburylitfest.co.uk

England

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Beyond the Book Festival

Brighton, East Sussex, England

@beyondbookfest

Web Form

England

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Huddersfield Literature Festival

Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

@Hudd_Lit_Fest

info@huddlitfest.org.uk

Wales

Crime

Apr 2025 TBA

Gŵyl Crime Cymru Festival

Aberystwyth, Wales

@GwylCrimeFest

gwylcrimefest@gmail.com

England

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Cambridge Literary Festival (Spring)

Cambridge, England

@camlitfest

hello@cambridgeliteraryfestival.com

Ireland

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Granard Booktown festival

Granard Town, Co. Longford, Ireland

@GranardBooktown

granardbooktown@gmail.com

Wales

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Abergavenny Writing Festival

Abergavenny, Wales

@AberWritingFest

Lucie@parkinwhitman.co.uk

Ireland

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Cúirt International Festival of Literature

Galway, Ireland

@CuirtFestival

info@cuirt.ie

Channel Islands

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Guernsey Literary Festival

Guernsey, Channel Islands

@GuernseyLitFest

admin@guernseyliteraryfestival.com

Scotland

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Paisley Book Festival

Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

@BookPaisley

louise.oliver@renfrewshire.gov.uk

England

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Hexham Book Festival

Hexham, Northumberland, England

@hexhambookfest

info@hexhambookfestival.co.uk

Wales

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales

@LlandeiloLitFst

LlandeiloLitFest@mail.com

Scotland

All

Apr 2025 TBA

Colonsay Book Festival

Colonsay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

@ColonsayBookFes

richard@thehopes.co.uk

England

All

May 7-11, 2025

Stratford Literary Festival

Stratford-upon-Avon, England

@StratLitFest

 info@stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk

England

All

May 2025 TBA

WOWFest

Toxteth, Liverpool, England

@wowfest

info@writingonthewall.org.uk

England

All

May 2025 TBA

Deepings Literary Festival

Market Deeping, Peterborough, England

N\A

enquiries@deepingsliteraryfestival.co.uk

Scotland

Crime

May 2025 TBA

Crime and Thriller Weekend

Cromarty, Ross-shire, Scotland

N\A

 info@cromartyartstrust.org.uk

England

All

May 2025 TBA

Swindon Festival of Literature

Swindon, Wiltshire, England

@SwindonLitFest

swindonlitfest@lowershawfarm.co.uk

England

All

May 2025 TBA

Chipping Campden Literature Festival

Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, England

@campdenlitfest

Web Form

England

All

May 2025 TBA

Crimefest

Bristol, England

@CrimeFest

info@crimefest.com

Scotland

All

May 2025 TBA

Boswell Book Festival, Dumfries House, Ayrshire

Dumfries House, Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

@bozzyfest

N\A

England

All

May 2025 TBA

Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature

Fowey, Cornwall, England

@fowey_festival

Web Form

England

All

May 2025 TBA

Norfolk and Norwich Festival

Norwich, England

@NNFest

 info@nnfestival.org.uk

England

All

May 2025 TBA

Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival

Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

N\A

info@theamelia.co.uk

England

All

May 2025 TBA

Burnham on Sea Book Festival

Burnham on Sea, Somerset, England

N\A

info@burnhambookfest.co.uk

England

All

May 2025 TBA

The Bath Festival

Bath, England

@TheBathFestival

info@bathfestivals.org.uk

Ireland

All

May 2025 TBA

International Literature Festival Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

@ILFDublin

info@ilfdublin.com

Wales

All

May 22 - Jun 1, 2025

Hay Festival

Hay-on-Wye, Hereford, Wales

@hayfestival

admin@hayfestival.org

Scotland

All

May 2025 TBA

Kilted Scribblers (11am-3pm)

Victoria Hall, Cromarty, Ross-shire, Scotland

N\A

kiltedscribblers@gmail.com

Ireland

All

May 2025 TBA

Listowel Writers' Week

Listowel, Kerry, Ireland

@ListowelWW

N\A

Scotland

Sci-Fi

May 2025 TBA

Cymera

The Pleasance, Edinburgh,Scotland

@CymeraF

support@cymerafestival.co.uk

England

All

May 2025 TBA

Capital Crime

Battersea Park, London

@CapitalCrime1

INFO@CAPITALCRIME.ORG

England

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Essex Book Festival

University of Essex, Colchester, England

@EssexBookFest

hello@essexbookfestival.org.uk

Scotland

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Glasgow Comic Con

Glasgow Club, Bellahouston, Glasgow, Scotland

@glasgowcomiccon

Web Form

Scotland

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Girvan Arts Festival

Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland

N\A

info@girvanartsfestival.com

England

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Clevedon Literary Festival

Clevedon, England

@clevedonlitfest

clevedonfestival@gmail.com

England

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Montgomeryshire Literary Festival

Montgomery, Powys, Wales

@montylitfest

enquiries@montylitfest.com

England

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Books by the Beach

Scarborough, Yorkshire, England

@scarboroughbook

booksbythebeach@hotmail.com

England

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Sturminster Newton Literary Festival

Sturminster Newton, Dorset, England

@SturminsterF

sturlitfest1@gmail.com

England

Crime

Jun 2025 TBA

Boston Book Festival - Crime

Boston, Lincolnshire, England

@book_boston

info@bostonbookfest.co.uk

England

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Crossing the Tees Book Festival

Teeside, England

@CrossingtheTees

info@crossingthetees.org

Ireland

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Dalkey Book Festival

Dalkey, Co Dublin, Ireland

N\A

https://www.facebook.com/dalkeybookfestival

Scotland

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Borders Book Festival, Melrose

Melrose, Borders, Scotland

@BordersBookFest

info@bordersbookfestival.org.

Ireland

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas

Borris, Co Carlow, Ireland

@dalkeybookfest

info@festivalofwritingandideas.com

England

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Bradford Literature Festival

Bradford, England

@BradfordLitFest

info@bradfordlitfest.co.uk

England

History

Jun 2025 TBA

Chalke Valley History Festival

Broadchalke, Nr. Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

@CVHISTORYFEST

janepb@cvhf.org.uk

England

Children

Jun 2025 TBA

Barnes Children's Literature Festival

Barnes, London, England

N\A

N\A

England

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Felixtowe Book Festival

Felixstowe, England

@felixstowebook

fbfbookclub@gmail.com

England

Crime

Jun 2025 TBA

UKCBC Live (Details TBA)

Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds, Yorkshire

@ukcrimebookclub

N\A

England

Political

Jun 2025 TBA

Orwell Festival of Political Writing

Bloomsbury, London, England

@TheOrwellPrize

james.tookey@theorwellprize.co.uk

England

All

Jun 2025 TBA

Leeds Lit Fest

Leeds, Yorkshire, England

@LeedsLit

enquiries@leedslitfest.co.uk

England

All

Jul 2025 TBA

Penzance Literary Festival

Penzance, England.

@PenzanceLitfest

info@pzlitfest.co.uk

England

lit \ music

Jul 2025 TBA

Buxton International Festival

Buxton, Derbyshire, England

@BuxtonFestival

info@buxtonfestival.co.uk

England

All

Jul 2025 TBA

Hertford Club Literary Festival

Hertford, Hertfordshire, England

@HertfordLitFest

Web Form

England

lit \ music

Jul 2025 TBA

Frome Festival

Frome, Somerset, England

@Frome_Festival

office@fromefestival.co.uk

England

All

Jul 2025 TBA

Newark Book Festival

Newark, Nottinghamshire, England

@NewarkBookFest

Web Form

England

All

Jul 2025 TBA

The Repton Festival

Repton, Derby, Derbyshire, England

N\A

info@reptonliteraryfestival.co.uk

Ireland

All

Jul 2025 TBA

West Cork Literary Festival

Bantry, Co Cork, Ireland, Ireland

@wcorklitfest

info@westcorkliteraryfestival.ie

England

Short Stories

Jul 2025 TBA

Flash Fiction Festival

Bristol, England

@FlashFicFest

jude@flashfictionfestival.com

England

All

Jul 2025 TBA

BeaconLit Book Festival

Ivinghoe, Bucks, England

@beaconlitbucks

Web Form

England

Crime

Jul 2025 TBA

Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival

Harrogate, England

@HarrogateFest

info@harrogate-festival.org.uk

Scotland

All

Jul 2025 TBA

BIG LIT: The Stewartry Book Festival

Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries & Galloway

N\A

enquiries@thebakehouse.info

England

Women, multicultural

Jul 2025 TBA

Primadonna Festival

Stowmarket, Suffolk, England

@PrimadonnaFest

primadonnafestival@gmail.com

Scotland

Children

Aug 2025 TBA

Wee Mac Arran Children's Book Festival

Arran, Scotland

@ArranWee

weemacarran@gmail.com

Scotland

Crime

Aug 2025 TBA

Bute Noir

Rothesay, Bute, Argyle, Scotland

@ButeNoir

butenoir@hotmail.com

Scotland

All

Aug 2025 TBA

Fringe by the Sea

North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland

@fringebythesea2

info@fringebythesea.com

England

Crime

Aug 2025 TBA

St Hilda’s College Crime Fiction Weekend

Oxford, England

@HildasCrime

harris.ferguson@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk

Wales

All

Aug 2025 TBA

Llangwm Literary Festival

Llangwm, Pembrokeshire, Wales

@llangwmlitfest1

llangwmlitfest@gmail.com

Scotland

All

Aug 2025 TBA

Edinburgh Book Festival

Edinburgh, Scotland

@edbookfest

admin@edbookfest.co.uk

England

Children

Aug 2025 TBA

Durham Children's Book Festival

Durham, Co Durham, England

@DurhamMarkets

info@durhammarkets.co.uk

Ireland

All

Aug 2025 TBA

Ennistymon Book Town Festival 

Ennistymon, Co Clare, Ireland

@BooksEnnistymon

ennistymonbooktown@gmail.com

Scotland

All

Aug 2025 TBA

Nairn Book and Arts Festival

Nairn, Scotland

@Nairn_Festival

info@nairnfestival.co.uk.

Scotland

All

Aug 2025 TBA

Beyond Borders International Festival

Peebles, Scotland

@BeyondBorders__

info@beyondbordersscotland.com

Scotland

All

Aug 2025 TBA

Islay Book Festival

Islay, Scotland

@islaybookfest

Web Form

England

All

Aug 2025 TBA

Queen's Park Book Festival

London, England

@QPBookfest

Web Form

Oct 2025 TBA

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Taunton Literary Festival

Taunton, Somerset, England

@TauntonLitFest

brendonbooks@gmail.com

Scotland

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Outwith Festival

Dunfermiline, Fife, Scotland

N\A

https://www.facebook.com/OutwithFestival/

Scotland

All

Sep 2025 TBA

St Duthac Book & Arts Festival

Tain, Easter Ross, Scotland

@StDuthac

N\A

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA


Chiswick Book Festival

Chiswick, London, England

@W4BookFest

boxoffice@chiswickbookfestival.net

Scotland

Crime

Sep 2025 TBA

Bloody Scotland

Stirling, Scotland

@BloodyScotland

info@bloodyscotland.com

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Tetbury Book Festival

Tetbury Goods Shed, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

@TetburyBookFest

tetburybookfestival@gmail.com

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Hastings Book Festival

Hastings, Sussex, England.

@HastingsbookFes

info@hastingsbookfest.org

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Rye Arts Festival

Rye, East Sussex, England

@Ryearts

chairman@ryeartsfestival.org.uk

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Appledore Book Festival

Appledore, England

@AppledoreBkFest

director@appledorebookfestival.co.uk

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival

Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England

@BudleighLitFest

festival@budlitfest.org.uk

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Richmond Walking and Book Festival

Richmond, Yorkshire Dales, England.

N\A

info@booksandboots.org

Channel Islands

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Jersey Word Fest

Jersey, Channel Islands

@JerseyWordFest

info@jerseyfestivalofwords.org

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Boston Book Festival

Boston, Lincolnshire, England

@book_boston

info@bostonbookfest.co.uk

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Cliveden Lit Fest

Cliveden House, Berkshire, England

@clivedenlitfest

info@clivedenliteraryfestival.org

Scotland

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Ness BookFest

Inverness, Scotland

@NessBookFest1

NBFinverness@gmail.com

Isle of Man

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Manx Litfest

Isle of Man

@manxlitfest

manxlitfest@gmail.com

England

Romance

Sep 2025 TBA

Romance Author & Reader Event RARE22

Excel, London 2023, Worldwide

@rarevents

rarettes@gmail.com

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

North Cornwall Book Festival

St Endellion, Cornwall, England

@NCornBookFest

tickets@ncornbookfest.org

Scotland

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Byres Road Book Festival

Hillhead, Glasgow, Scotland

@byresrdbookfest

info@visitwestend.com

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Marlborough literature festival

Marlborough, Wiltshire

@MarlbLitFest

N\A

Ireland

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Write by the Sea

Kilmore Quay, Co Wexford, Ireland

@write_KQ

festival@writebythesea.ie

Scotland

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Wigtown book Festival

Wigtown, Newton Stewart, Scotland, DG8

@WigtownBookFest

mail@wigtownbookfestival.com

Scotland

Children

Sep 2025 TBA

Big Dog book Festival

Wigtown, Newton Stewart, Scotland, DG8

@BigDoGFest

mail@wigtownbookfestival.com

England

Children

Sep 2025 TBA

Bath Children's Literature Festival

Bath, England

@bathkidslitfest

N\A

Scotland

Women

Sep 2025 TBA

Edinburgh Women's Fiction Festival

Edinburgh, Scotland

@EdWomensFicFest

edinburghwomensfictionfestival@gmail.com

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Henley Literary Festival

Henley-on-Thames, England, RG9

@HenleyLitFest

info@henleyliteraryfestival.co.uk

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Birmingham Literature Festival

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

@BhamLitFest

programming@writingwestmidlands.org.

England

All

Sep 2025 TBA


Shoreham Wordfest

Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, UK

@ShorehamArt

general@shorehamwordfest.com

Scotland

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Tidelines Book Festival

Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

@TidelinesFest

tidelinesbookfest@gmail.com

Scotland

All

Sep 2025 TBA

Braemar Literary Festival

Braemar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

N\A

N\A

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Isle of Wight Literary Festival

Isle of Wight, EnglandUnited Kingdom

@IOWLF

secretary@isleofwightliteraryfestival.com

England

Black Literature

Oct 2025 TBA

Black History Month

Toxteth, Liverpool, England

@wowfest

info@writingonthewall.org.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Cuckfield Book Festival

Cuckfield, England

@CuckfieldBF

info@cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Ilkley Literature Festival

Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England

@ilkleylitfest

info@ilkleylitfest.org.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Cheltenham Literature Festival

Cheltenham, EnglandUnited Kingdom

@cheltfestivals

N\A

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Wimbledon Literary Festival (Sunset)

Manchester, England

@McrLitFest

office@manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Manchester Literature Festival

Manchester, England

@McrLitFest

office@manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk

Scotland

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Portobello Book Festival

Portobello Library, Portobello, Scotland

@PortyBookFest

portobellobookfestival@gmail.com

England

Crime

Oct 2025 TBA

Chiltern Kills

Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England

@ChilternKills

N\A

England

Black authors

Oct 2025 TBA

Black British Book Festival

Birmingham, England

@BBBookFestival

info@legacycoe.co.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Guildford Book Festival

Guildford, Surrey, England

N\A

alexandrews@guildfordbookfestival.co.uk

Scotland

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Bookmark Book Festival

Blairgowrie Community Campus

@bookmarkblair

secretary@bookmarkblair.com

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Berwick Literary Festival

Berwick , Northumberland, England

@BerwickLitFest

https://www.facebook.com/berwicklitfest/

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Mere Literary Festival

Mere, Wiltshire, England

N\A

contact@mereliteraryfestival.com

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Durham Book Festival

Durham, Co Durham, England

@durhambookfest

laurafraine@newwritingnorth.com

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England

@HarrogateFest

info@harrogate-festival.org.uk

Scotland

Indie

Oct 2025 TBA

Caithness Book Festival

Wick, Caithness, Scotland

N\A

glyn.salisbury@btinternet.com

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Off the Shelf

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England

@otsfestival

offtheshelf@sheffield.ac.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Clapham Book Festival

Clapham, London, England

@ClaphamBookFest

claphambookfestival@gmail.com

England

Children

Oct 2025 TBA

Wokingham Children’s Book Festival

Wokingham, Berkshire, England

@WBC_Libraries

artsandculture@wokingham-tc.gov.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Falmouth Book Festival

Falmouth, Cornwall, England

@BookFalmouth

colin@falmouthbookfestival.com

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Wimbledon Literary Festival (Sunset)

Wimbledon, London

@Wimbookfest

info@wimbledonbookfest.org

Ireland

Crime

Oct 2025 TBA

Murder One Festival

Dublin, Ireland

@MurderOneFest

N\A

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Wells Festival of Literature

Wells, Somerset, England

@wellslitfest

admin@wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk

Scotland

All

Oct 2025 TBA

International Storytelling Festival

Edinburgh, Scotland

@scotstoryfest

info@tracscotland.org

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

London Literature Festival

South Bank, London, England

@litsouthbank

hello@southbankcentre.co.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Yeovil Literary Festival

Yeovil, Somerset, England

@YeovilLitFest

manager.yeovil@waterstones.com

Scotland

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Orkney Storytelling Festival

Orkney, Scotland

@OrkneyStoF

orkneystof@hotmail.co.uk

Scotland

All

Oct 2025 TBA

West over Sea

Tobermory, Mull, Scotland

@TobermoryBookF1

info@westoversea.co.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Stratford Literary Festival Winter Weekend

Stratford-upon-Avon, England

@StratLitFest

 info@stratfordliteraryfestival.co.uk

England

All

Oct 2025 TBA

Moulton Literary Festival

Moulton, Lincolnshire, England

@MoultonLitFest

N\A

Scotland

All

Oct 2025 TBA


Faclan Hebridean Book Festival

Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

@anlanntair

info@anlanntair.com