become a friend today and reAp the benefits

  • Priority booking: ticket sales for Friends will open a full week before general booking is available.
  • £10 per ticket (standard ticket price £12.50)
  • Event invitation – to an exclusive ‘invitation only’ occasion.
  • Brochure mailing: delivered hot off the press straight to your home!
  • Friends will automatically be added to our mailing list to receive email updates from the Festival.
single membership £30 Joint membership £50 Postal Form
  • Mike Gunton
  • Audience at Friends Event

successful Friends Event July 2025 with Professor Danielle Schreve

The Wells Festival of Literature Friends scheme offers members the chance to become a Patron of the Arts and be more involved with all aspects of the Wells Festival of Literature. The scheme encourages our audiences to become actively engaged with what the Festival seeks to achieve, ensuring that we continue to provide a stimulating, entertaining and popular programme in the years ahead.

With the ongoing support of our Friends, we hope to increase our educational work, and so further extend the love of literature and learning among the young people of our county.

Membership Details
The Friends Membership runs from 5 November 2024 to 4 November 2025. You can pay your 2025 membership fee online using your credit or debit card details, or by postal form if you wish to pay by cheque, standing order or bank transfer (BACS).

By Invitation only
Every year the Committee of Wells Festival of Literature says ‘Thank You’ to the Friends, Sponsors and supporters of the Festival at a unique event featuring a special speaker. This takes place early in July in advance of the main festival in October.


“I enjoyed everything about my time at the Wells Literary Festival – from the kindness and efficiency
of the organisers to the enthusiasm of the audience.
It’s a model festival which deserves to go from strength to strength.”

Jonathan Coe – 2024