I’ve compiled a list of literary festivals in the UK and Ireland. There are now 142 listed. This is not exhaustive, but I’ve found as many as I can. If there is one not listed, please let me know via my contact page. You can see when the events are on the calendar, or scroll down for a list with weblinks.
England
Appledore Book Festival – Devon
Aldeburgh Literary Festival – Suffolk
Barnes Children’s Literature Festival – London
Bath Children’s Literature Festival
Bay Tales Live – North East
Berwick Literary Festival – Northumberland
Birmingham Literature Festival
Black British Book Festival – Birmingham
Bridport Literary Festival – Dorset
Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing – West Yorkshire
Budleigh Salterton Literature Festival – Devon
Buxton International Festival – Derbyshire
Capital Crime Festival – London
Cheltenham Literature Festival
Chipping Campden Literature Festival – Gloucestershire
Chiswick Book Festival – London
Clevedon Litfest – Somerset
Cliveden Literary Festival – Berkshire
Creative Folkestone Book Festival
Cuckfield Book Fest – West Sussex
Daunt Books Festival – London
Deptford Literature Festival – London
DESIblitz Literature Festival – Birmingham
Falmouth Book Festival – Cornwall
Faversham Literary Festival – Kent
Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature – Cornwall
Foxes’ Retreat Festival of Writing and Reflection – Derbyshire
Garden Museum Literary Festival – Gloucestershire
Hexham Book Festival – Northumberland
Huddersfield Literature Festival
I Am Writing Festival – Bristol
International Literary Festival – Grimsby
Isle of Wight Literary Festival
IW Story Festival – Isle of Wight
Jane Austen Festival – Bath
Kendal Mountain Book Festival – Cumbria
King’s Lynn Literature Festivals – Norfolk
Ledbury Poetry Festival – Herefordshire
LitFest – Lancashire
Lit Fest – Southampton
Lyme Crime – Dorset
Manchester Literature Festival
Marlborough Lit Fest – Wiltshire
MK Lit Fest – Milton Keynes
Muslim LitFest – Birmingham
Noirwich – Norwich
Northern Short Story Festival – Leeds
Off the Shelf Festival of Words – Sheffield
Oundle Festival of Literature – Northamptonshire
Penzance Literary Festival – Cornwall
Petworth Festival – West Sussex
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival – Suffolk
Queen’s Park Book Festival – London
Raworths Harrogate Literature Festival
Rye Arts Festival – East Sussex
Salisbury International Arts Festival
Shaftesbury Book Festival – Dorset
Sherborne Travel Writing Festival – Dorset
Stanfords Travel Writers Festival – London
Stories Festival – London
Stratford Literary Festival – Stratford-upon-Avon
Sturminster Newton Literary Festival
Swindon Festival of Literature
The Agatha Christie Festival – Devon
Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival – Harrogate
The Hertford Literary Festival
The Persephone Festival – Bath
The Queen’s Reading Room Festival – London
The South Downs Poetry Festival
Two Rivers Book Festival – Norfolk
Warwick Words History Festival
Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Cork International Poetry Festival
Cork International Short Story Festival
Cúirt International Festival of Literature – Galway
Ennis Book Club Festival – Co Clare
Festival of Writing and Ideas – Co Carlow
Franco-Irish Literary Festival – Dublin
International Literature Festival Dublin
Listowel Writers’ Week – Co Kerry
Scotland
Aye Write – Glasgow
Big Lit – Dumfries & Galloway
Bloody Scotland – Stirling
Bookmark Book Festival – Perthshire
Borders Book Festival – Melrose
Boswell Book Festival – East Ayrshire
Burns & Beyond – Edinburgh
Colonsay Book Festival – Inner Hebrides, Scotland
Cromarty Crime & Thrillers Weekend
Cymera – Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival
Granite Noir – Aberdeen
Nairn Book & Arts Festival – Inverness
Push the Boat Out – Edinburgh
StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival – St Andrews
St Duthac Book and Arts Festival – Easter Ross Peninsula
WayWORD Festival – Aberdeen
Word On the Street – Dingwall
Wales
Monty Lit Fest – Powys
Charlotte Clark 