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16-24 October 2026
Set up in 1992 to celebrate the written word
and to encourage the love of books.
2025 Highlights
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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Still time to book the Quiz
Brainy bookworms have the chance to test their literary know-how at the Festival’s fun quiz night at Cedars Hall. Once…
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Small boats, big Hearts
We Came By Sea, by Horatio Clare, gives a different side to the small boats crisis from the one we…
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Top award for Masud Husain
Festival speaker, neurologist Masud Husain, has won the 2025 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize for his book Our Brains,…
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justice for war crimes
Will we ever see Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu on trial, asks Steve Crawshaw in Prosecuting the Powerful. As someone…
