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Between Friday 16th October and Friday 23rd October, 2009

The programme for the 2009 Festival will be uploaded in August 2009

Please bookmark this website and check again in the Summer

Click left to enter the competitions and see what happened last year

LECTURES ARE GIVEN BY PRINCIPAL AUTHORS, POETS, JOURNALISTS, BROADCASTERS AND OTHERS

IN THE BISHOP'S PALACE AND OTHER VENUES IN

THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY. THIS YEAR’S PROGRAMME WILL BE PUBLISHED IN AUGUST 2008

Rosie Boycott recommends the Wells festival as her fourth literary festival favourite in Oldie Magazine

Competitions

We run annual international poetry and short story competitions with up to £500 cash prizes.

This year the short-list judges will be: once again, the last (1999 - 2009) Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion and, for the short stories, the author Fiona Walker.

Entries are invited now but will close on 31 July 2009

The Festival is run by a small committee of volunteers. It is a charity whose purpose is to encourage literature amongst school-children Any financial surplus goes towards this purpose. Many events have been arranged for them over the years including talks by the children’s laureate.

If you wish to contact the Chairman please email him on:

petercrossley@mbzonline.net

Registered Charity No 104565: Company Number 2827744: Registered Office: Gable House, Parbrook, Glastonburt, BA68PB