Bookings and
Reservations
See details included with each event
Tickets for most events can be booked in advance either online, by phone, or from the venue box office.
ONLINE TICKET SALES
For most events, you can book your tickets online by clicking the "Book this event online" link beside the event details. All bookable events can also be found in the May section at… swindontheatres.co.uk
BOOK BY PHONE
To book by phone, call the number beside the event.
ON THE DAY
Or, on the day, tickets, if still available, can be bought on the door at each venue.
But please, with popular events, please check first for availability!
The ticket price in brackets applies to people entitled to concessions.
DOUBLE TICKETS
Most evening events scheduled at Swindon Arts Centre are available to buy as a double ticket at a reduced price. But these discounted tickets cannot be bought online. Should you wish to purchase double tickets, please call the box office on 01793 614837 or 01793 524481.
If you have any queries about booking or the Festival in general, please email us or ring 01793 771080.
Alexandra Heminsley
Mon May 5
Bee Wilson
Wed May 7
Gavin & Tom
Wed May 7
David Pearson
Thu May 8
Stefan Collini
Fri May 9
Jacqueline Wilson
Sun May 11
Jonathon Porritt
Thu May 15
Anne Widdecombe
Tue May 6
John Carey
Wed May 7
Rachel Joyce
Thu May 8
Lisa Appignanesi
Fri May 9
Korky Paul
Sun May 11
Nathan Filer
Mon May 12
Tracey Thorn
Thu May 15
Welcome to the twenty-first
Swindon Festival of Literature!
Our passion and founding spirit is rooted in love of the word, good reading, exploratory talk, finding out about things, making connections, and the notion that life is for learning, and, where possible, pleasure.
This is a festival that brings people together in Swindon to enjoy things well-thought, well-written, and well-said.
Now that we are twenty-one, we are meant to be properly grown up. This means that we can not only have fun but also be serious and idealistic about things that matter in our everyday lives.
We intend to do just that, with adventurous authors, terrific talks, delightful discussion, wonderful workshops, and excellent entertainment.
If you like the idea of Literature celebrated this way, please read on. We want this celebration of good writing and clear thinking to connect with the texture of life as we know it, today, yesterday, and in days to come, with all its challenges, difficulties, and delights.
This is the way it is at the Swindon Festival of Literature. Writers meet readers and readers meet writers. We talk, we listen, we think, we drink a little, and also like to laugh. As a result, enjoyable, interesting, challenging, unpredictable, funny, and even memorable things happen.
In its attempt to lure you along, this year’s Festival includes novelists, poets, philosophers, storytellers, historians, columnists, adventurers, broadcasters, artists, and activists.
For the full at-a-glance Festival diary, turn to the centre pages of this programme.
And then, mark your own diary, so that from 5th to 17th May you know where to be, if you want to be meeting, greeting, and listening to writers, thinkers, entertainers, and fellow Festival followers.
Please read on, and come along.
Matt Holland
Festival Director/Organiser
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