2020 Festival: Heading Towards a Sell-Out
Tickets for our 28th Festival have been on sale for a very short time and yet events are already beginning…
2020 Festival: Full Programme Almost Available!
As August closes, our Festival programme opens: full details will be posted here on the website on Monday 31 August,…
2020 Festival: More Topics to Entertain You
If you have been hankering after a taste of the High Life recently, we have some great news: it’s coming…
2020 Festival: It Promises to be Quite a Year!
After an extremely tough year, we can reassure you of some bright spots ahead. Still committed to putting on a…
2020 International Competitions: Now Closed
After a bumper crop of entries from all over the world, our International Competitions have now closed for this year….
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…