Julian Clary
Mon May 4
Margaret Drabble
Wed May 6
Michael Morpurgo
Thu May 7
Bob Wilson
Tue May 12
Colin Dexter
Tue May 14
Welcome to the sixteenth
Swindon Festival of Literature!
Sweet sixteen we are, and keen to act our age, by being bold, bright, and beautiful.
This year’s Festival offers entertainment, exploration, and ideas aplenty. It includes novelists, poets, politicians, philosophers, scientists, storytellers, sportsmen, historians, comedians, artists, and activists. Ours is a festival that sets out to prove that when readers meet writers, and writers meet readers, enjoyable, interesting, challenging, worthwhile, unpredictable, funny, and memorable things happen.
Ours is a festival that sets out to prove that when readers meet writers, and writers meet readers, enjoyable, interesting, challenging, 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 4th 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! For a list of all events, go to the Festival Diary page.
And then, mark your own diary, so that from the 4th to the 16th 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
Nigel Lawson
Tue May 5
Deborah Moggach
Wed May 6
Alistair McGowan
Fri May 8
Ruth Padel
Wed May 13
David Attenborough
Fri May 15
