Stratford Literary Festival

Stratford Literary Festival Booking: 0333 666 3366 for Festival events, creative writing classes and children's events in spring

Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival takes place in spring each year and features a variety of events including celebrity authors and personalities, panel discussions, writing workshops, guidance on getting published and discussions on politics and current affairs. The Festival takes authors into schools, and has a Children's Book day featuring authors, illustrators and workshops. The festival also runs projects based in the community, working especially with the elderly.

Huge congratulations to the Patron of our Outreach Work Julia Donaldson on becoming a Dame!She has had an extraordinary ...
14/06/2026

Huge congratulations to the Patron of our Outreach Work Julia Donaldson on becoming a Dame!

She has had an extraordinary impact on children’s love of reading for so many years and so many children - many now adults - love and have loved her charming, funny, beautiful stories. We are so proud that she is a champion of our work to encourage children to a life-long love of reading, and our work in prisons to maintain vital family connections.

What a treat to have the wonderful Maggie O'Farrell with us yesterday and what a privilege it is that she is our Festiva...
13/06/2026

What a treat to have the wonderful Maggie O'Farrell with us yesterday and what a privilege it is that she is our Festival Patron!

A packed Rother Street Arts House heard her talk to Fiona Lindsay about her latest book Land set in Ireland, why you should write what you don’t know and how emotional it was to write the scene of ’s death.

She is a remarkable writer and it was an utter pleasure to listen to her share her craft.

And here’s Sunday’s photo round-up 📸✨With some wonderful closing moments across the day, Sunday was a brilliant end to a...
11/05/2026

And here’s Sunday’s photo round-up 📸✨

With some wonderful closing moments across the day, Sunday was a brilliant end to an unforgettable weekend at Stratford Literary Festival Spring 2026.

A special thank you to Rupert Barnes for capturing the spirit of the festival across all four days 📸

10/05/2026

You may have seen that we offer Dungeons and Dragons and Warhammer workshops for adults and children at our festival. And here’s one of our Dungeon Masters Sophie to tells us why 🔨

Tabletop role play gaming is a fantastic way of participating in collaborative and immersive storytelling. Let your imagination run wild and take full control of the storyline in the game. Whether our attendees were playing for the first time, or had already played previously, they loved the workshops! ✨

10/05/2026

We love hearing the positive words that everyone has to say about our festival 🥰

Whether it’s those who have worked closely with the team as a speaker at the event - such as , those who are local and always look out for our events, or those who are joining us for the first time! We’re very grateful to everyone who comes along to support us 📚✨

Here’s a look at just some of the events we had on Saturday of the Spring Stratford Literary Festival 2026!📸📚Our final d...
10/05/2026

Here’s a look at just some of the events we had on Saturday of the Spring Stratford Literary Festival 2026!📸📚

Our final day is already underway, don’t miss out on the chance for last minute tickets to our Sunday events!🤩 the link is in our bio 🔗

It’s the final day of Stratford Literary Festival Spring 2026, but the fun isn’t over yet… 📚Today, you can join Philippa...
10/05/2026

It’s the final day of Stratford Literary Festival Spring 2026, but the fun isn’t over yet… 📚

Today, you can join Philippa Perry and Richard Coles in conversation to discuss her new crime novel, Jo Hamilton is sharing her story of the Post Office Scandal, Rob Biddulph is putting on a drawing workshop, and Mark Gatiss will close the weekend.

Don’t miss out on the final day’s events! Tickets are still available at the link in our bio. 🔗

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