2020 Festival: Reaching New Audiences
This year’s record-breaking International Competitions (most ever entries, biggest prize-money) have been leading the way for our 2020 Festival by…
2020 Festival: Book Group Event Confirmed
We are delighted to announce that Max Porter will be our author for the Festival’s ever popular Book Group Event,…
2020 Festival: First Speaker Announced
With the current situation still so uncertain, we would like to reassure you of one certainty: our intention is still…
2020 International Competitions: Now Open
The first day of April is a very familiar date! But as far as Wells Festival of Literature is concerned,…
2019 Festival: Starts with Pizzaz!
The 27th Wells Festival of Literature opened yesterday evening with a packed audience at a sell-out event – Diarmaid MacCulloch’s…
2019 Festival: Change of Speaker
We are sorry to report that Peter Hennessy, who was due to speak at a Literary Lunch on Friday 25…
2019 Festival: Additional tit-bits!
Our 29th Festival will be jam-packed with appetising events – including a mouth-watering discussion between Felicity Cloake and Caroline Waldegrave…
2019 Festival: Change of Speaker
We are sorry to report that Kamal Ahmed, who was due to speak in Wells on Saturday 19 October at…
2019 Festival: Updates to the Programme
Ticket sales for the forthcoming Festival are selling fast with Chris Patten’s First Confession now sold out and several other…
2019 Festival: Chris Patten’s Event Sold Out
Tickets for Chris Patten’s First Confession on Saturday 26 October at 2 pm have now sold out, with further events…