Steven Berkoff
Tue May 6
A C Grayling
Wed May 7
Andrew Motion
Thu May 8
Ben Okri
Fri May 9
Harriet Lamb
Sun May 11
Welcome to the fifteenth
Swindon Festival of Literature!
Daffodils, dandelions, and flower-filled roundabouts apart, Spring in Swindon signals the start of the festival season.
First out of the blocks is the Festival of Literature!
Now that we have stretched our bodies out of winter slumber, let’s stretch our minds.
This year’s Festival offers entertainment, exploration, and ideas aplenty. It includes prize-winning novelists, poets, politicians, philosophers, scientists, storytellers, historians, film-makers, fairtrade-makers, artists, and activists. Ours is a festival that sets out to prove that when readers meet writers, and writers meet readers, enjoyable, interesting, serious, worthwhile, unpredictable, funny, and memorable things happen.
The Festival begins, as ever, with fun and the rising sun, at dawn on that high ridge overlooking the town in Lawn Woods – on the Spring Bank Holiday, Monday 5th May!
And on each subsequent day, there will be three or more events, at midday, teatime, and in the evening, carefully spaced and placed, to enable you to attend almost every one, should you have the stamina! see the full at-a-glance Festival diary, turn to the centre pages of the programme.
And then, mark your own diary, so that from the 5th to the 18th May you know where to be, if you want to be meeting, greeting, hearing, talking, listening, and celebrating the world of words, with others!
Please read on, and come along.
MATT HOLLAND
Festival Organiser
John Pilger
Wed May 14
Tim Smit
Wed May 14
Marina Lewycka
Thu May 15
Self Sufficient-ish Twins
Sun May 11
Annamation
Sun May 11
