Welcome To Our Festival
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17-25 October 2025
Welcome to the Wells Festival of Literature, set up in 1992 to celebrate the written word and to encourage the love of books.
Wells Festival of Literature
Celebrating its 33rd Year in 2025
Wells Festival of Literature is a registered charity entirely run by a committee of volunteers, funded by ticket sales, competition entries and generous local sponsors and Friends.
VISITORS A YEAR
DISTRIBUTED IN 2024
IN 2024
“It was a joy to be part of the Festival.
I was so impressed by the engagement of the audience and by the knowledge and passion of this year’s
interviewers and speakers.”Susie Dent – 2024
News for 2025
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Recipes for success
Women whose lives have been successful in wildly differing ways are just some of the highlights of this year’s Festival….
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Winning story
A speaker at last year’s Wells Festival of Literature has been awarded this year’s Women’s prize for nonfiction for her…
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Survival, spies and justice
Wells Festival of Literature this year plays its part in commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second…
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A taste of things to Come
Fermented foods, late love and an elephant trek are just some of the intriguing range of topics that mark the…
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