Festivals

ARGYLL AND BUTE

Colonsay Book Festival.  April.

Dunoon Film Festival.  November.

Tarbert Book Festival.  November.

Tarbert TT16mm Film Festival.  August.

AYRSHIRE

Boswell Book Festival. May.

BRISTOL

Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival September

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

Cambridge Film Festival.  September.

Cambridge Literary Festival.  April.

CARDIFF

Cardiff Children's Lit Fest.  March/April. 

Iris Prize Festival. October. 

CEREDIGION

Mwldan Film Festival, Cardigan. January.

CHANNEL ISLANDS

Guernsey Literary Festival.  September. 

CITY OF EDINBURGH

Edinburgh Film Festival.  June.

CORNWALL

Cornwall Film Festival.  November.

Fowey Festival of Words and Music.  May.

Looe Literary Festival. November.

Penzance Literary Festival. July.

Porthleven Literary Festival.  April.

North Cornwall Book Festival, St Endellion.  October.

St Ives Literature Festival.  May.

St Martin's Film Festival, St Martin's, Cornwall.  October.

COUNTY DURHAM

Durham Book Festival. October.

CUMBRIA

Words By The Water, Keswick. March.

DERBYSHIRE

Buxton Festival Book Weekend. November.

Derbyshire Literature Festival. May.

DEVON

Agatha Christie Festival  English Riviera.  September.

Appledore Book Festival. September.

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival. September.

Ilfracombe Film Festival. April.

Plymouth International Book Festival.  October.

Sidmouth Literary Festival.  June.

Torbay Poetry Festival.  September.

DORSET

Charmouth Literary Festival. October.

Dorchester Literary Festival. October.

Purbeck Literary Festival. February/March. 

Purbeck Film Festival.  October. 

Sherborne Literary Festival. October. 

Weymouth Leviathan Maritime Literary Festival. March. 

DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY

Wigtown Book Festival.  Late September/early October. 

EAST AND WEST SUSSEX

Cine-City Film Festival, Brighton.   November.

Oska Film Festival, Brighton. November.

EDINBURGH

International Film Festival. June. 

ESSEX

Essex Book Festival.  March. 

FIFE

StAnza Poetry Festival, St Andrews. March. 

GLASGOW

Glasgow Film Festival.  February. 

GLOUCESTERSHIRE


Cheltenham Poetry Festival  Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.  April.

Cheltenham Literature Festival Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.  October.

Chipping Campden Literature Festival.  May.

HAMPSHIRE

Pride Film Festival, Portsmouth. February.

Making Waves Film Festival, Portsmouth. September. 

Portsmouth Bookfest. February/March

HERTFORDSHIRE

St Albans Literary Festival. November.

HIGHLAND

Cromarty Film Festival. December.

Fling Film Festival. October.

Inverness Film Festival. November. 

ISLE OF MAN

Manx Litfest.  September. 

Isle of Man Film Festival. September.

ISLE OF WIGHT


Isle Of Wight Literary Festival. October. 

KENT

Broadstairs Dickensian Festival. June. 

Folkestone Book Festival. November.

Rochester Literature Festival. September/October

Wheels and Fins International Film Festival, Broadstairs. August.

Whitstable Literary Festival.  May. 

LANCASHIRE

Lancaster LITFEST.  March.

LONDON

BFI London Film Festival.  October.

British Academy Literature Week. May.

East End Film Festival.  June/July.

Greenwich Book Festival. May.

Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival. September.

Soho Literary Festival.  September.

MERSEYSIDE

In Other Words.  Liverpool Literary Festival.  April/May. 

Liverpool Film Festival. October/November.

NORFOLK

Coast Art and Literary Festival, Sheringham and Cromer.  October/November.

King's Lynn Fiction Festival.  March.

NORTHERN IRELAND

Belfast Book Festival.  June. 

NORTHUMBERLAND

Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. September.

Berwick Literary Festival. October.

Hexham Book Festival.  April/May.

OXFORDSHIRE

Blenheim Palace Literary Festival. September.

Chipping Norton Literary Festival.  April.

Henley Literary Festival. September/October.

Oxford Literary Festival Oxford, Oxfordshire.  March.

POWYS  

Hay Festival Hay-On-Wye, Powys. Literature and arts festival. Late May/early June.

SCOTTISH BORDERS

Borders Book Festival, Melrose.  June. 

SHROPSHIRE

Shrewsbury Festival of Literature.  November. 

SOMERSET

Bath Film Festival.  November.

Bath Literature Festival.  March.

Jane Austen Festival, Bath, September.

Wells Film Festival. April.

SUFFOLK

Aldeburgh Literary Festival.  February/March. 

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. November. 

SURREY

Guildford Book Festival. October. 

SUSSEX

Charleston Festival,   Charleston, Firle, Lewes.  May.

Cine-City, Brighton

Eastbourne Book Festival.  September.

TYNE AND WEAR

Newcastle Film Festival.  March/April.

WILTSHIRE

Swindon Festival of Literature.  May. 

YORKSHIRE

Bradford International Film Festival.  March/April. 

Bradford Literature Festival.  June/July.

Bram Stoker International Film Festival. Whitby.  October.

Celluloid Screams Horror Film Festival, Sheffield. October.

Gothic Film Festival, Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds. October/November.

Huddersfield Literature Festival. March. 

Ilkley Literature Festival.  October.

Leeds International Film Festival.  November.

Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival.  October.

Scarborough Book Festival.  April. 

The Leeds Big Bookend.  June.