24 – 27 September 2026
A book festival in beautiful Wiltshire with events for all.
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Marlborough LitFest began in 2010 and showcases fiction and non-fiction, including events for children, writing workshops, poetry readings and more.
As a charity we provide free events for young children, local schools and adults every year. This year we reached 1200 primary and secondary school children in Marlborough, Pewsey, Devizes and Calne.
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As part of LitFest’s 2026 schools outreach programme, we celebrated World Book Day with two free events for local schoolchildren, with authors Jon Stock (who also writes under the name JS Monroe) and Catherine Bruton.
Marlborough LitFest is delighted to announce its first confirmed authors for 2026 as historian and educationalist Sir Anthony Seldon and award-winning novelist Kit de Waal.
Our Festival Patron is acclaimed stage and theatre actor, Sir Simon Russell Beale.
The generous support of our sponsors brings wonderful cultural events to Marlborough and allows us to run our free events for schools and others
