Getting ahead of ourselves!
The 2024 Festival starts on Friday 18 October but if you were in Cedars Hall on 11 July, you might…
The 2024 Wells Festival of Literature starts here!
With only a few months left until this year’s Festival gets under way, activity behind the scenes is already evident….
2023 Festival
All photos by Jo Shepherd
2022 Festival
All photos by Jo Shepherd
The judges are ready for our 2024 Competitions. Are you?
2023 saw another fiercely contested, but hugely popular, quartet of competitions! The standard in all four categories was high and…
2024 Young Poets Competition
Our Young Poets Competition is offering bigger cash prizes this year than ever before: First Prize will be £200, Second…
2024 Open Poetry Competition
Enter our 2024 Open Poetry Competition to make sure you are in with a chance of winning one of our…
2024 Book for Children
The winner of our 2024 Book for Children Competition will receive £750. £300 is second prize with £200 being offered…
2024 Short Story Competition
Enter our Short Story Competition and be in the running for winning one of our prizes to celebrate your success….
2023 Festival Highlights
The 31st Wells Festival of Literature is now over but it has left us some wonderful memories, every one of…