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
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
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
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
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
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
Where do the months go? One moment members of the LitFest committee are scouring the books pages for authors, devising our programme and sharing our plans with local business sponsors. The next we’re welcoming around 40 writers – first-timers alongside big names – to the Green Room in the Town
2023 has seen another successful Marlborough LitFest Love Books competition, with a record 160 entries in its fourth year. One of LitFest’s aims is to celebrate the power of reading to shift perceptions and to open up opportunities. The annual LitFest Love Books competition invites participants to explain their choice of
Ticketholders will have been informed that Jacqueline Crooks has had to pull out of the Hixcox Debut Authors event at 5.30pm on Saturday 30 September as a consequence of the rail disruption over the weekend. However we are extremely fortunate that author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce has stepped in to
Follow our Marlborough High Street trail and work out the book clues! To celebrate Marlborough LitFest 2023 we are hiding clues to books in the shop windows up and down Marlborough High Street and beyond. From 16 September you can use the map inside the leaflet (pick up from a
