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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
