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2024 festival programme launched

Marlborough LitFest celebrates its 15th year with a packed programme full of more than 40 events offering a myriad of topics for all ages across the festival weekend from 26-29 September 2024. On offer this year is an exciting mix of debut authors and established writers in fiction and non-fiction,

More Authors Announced: Sarah Perry, Robert Peston & Martin Sixsmith

Marlborough LitFest is delighted to announce that Sarah Perry, Robert Peston and Martin Sixsmith will join LitFest Patron Sir Simon Russell Beale, Celia Imrie, Robert Hardman and Zeinab Badawi at this year’s 15th festival from 26 – 29 September 2024. There’s still time to enter LitFest’s fifth national Love Books

2024 Love Books Competition Entry Details

LOVE BOOKS COMPETITION We want you to tell us why you love your favourite book, poem or play. Your response should be in the form of a piece of text of up to 750 words. Entrants should explain what they love about their chosen read, highlighting key areas of interest, and why they

Fifth Love Books Competition Launched

Marlborough LitFest is excited to launch its fifth national Love Books competition, to celebrate and share a love of reading amongst all ages. The annual competition is open to anyone across the country in three age groups: 13-15 years, 16-19 years and 20 years and above – with winners in

First 2024 Event Announced: Sir Simon Russell Beale Discussing His Memoir

Marlborough LitFest celebrates its 15th year in 2024 from 26-29 September and the festival programme is currently being put together to provide an exciting mix of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children’s authors and free family activities over the festival weekend. The first announcement for the 2024 line-up is LitFest Patron, Sir

Sunday Times PR Coverage

We were delighted to read this The Times and The Sunday Times article from 24th December 2023 (shown in the photograph) by author Tomiwa Owolade who attended last year’s LitFest, summing up his highlights of 2023: “…The best place was Marlborough. I spoke at a little building just outside a church

LitFest Patron, Sir Simon Russell Beale

We were delighted when Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE agreed to be our first Patron in 2020. The critically acclaimed actor of stage and screen, who was knighted in October 2019, now lives locally. He has visited the Festival a number of times, appearing in 2016 prior to playing Prospero

Children’s LitFest 2023 Review

Marlborough LitFest’s 2023 expanded children’s programme featured an extensive range of activities for all ages. With storytelling slots, free author talks to local schoolchildren as well as a bumper crop of children’s authors on offer, LitFest’s 2023 children’s programme featured a variety of events to keep all ages entertained. In