10th DORCHESTER LITERARY FESTIVAL 2024

Saturday 12th - Saturday 19th October 2024

Literary festivals are such a pleasure, for both readers and writers. Readers get to hear what goes on behind the making of a book, and share their interest with a room full of other excited book lovers. Writers get to meet their bosses – the people we’re actually writing for! It’s a thrill to me as a novelist to talk with readers of my books and hear their views: surprising, amusing, sometimes controversial, and always interesting.

Dorchester Literary Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year: 10 years of fascinating and entertaining guests, from cooks to crime writers, poets to politicians, Hardyeans to historians, scientists to cyclists. I have loved witnessing the festival’s growth and success. For a small town, Dorchester punches above its weight when it comes to culture, and the Dorchester Literary Festival is one of its gleaming jewels. Here’s to another 10 years!

Tracy Chevalier - Festival Patron

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Dates for your Diary

From 14/09/2024 until 01/08/2026
Starts 09:00 until 18:00

MARK CHUTTER A LITERARY WALK – WESSEX WRITERS

On 13/10/2024
Starts 12:00 until 14:00

Alan Hollinghurst

On 16/10/2024
Starts 18:00 until 21:00

The Year Clock

On 24/10/2024
Starts 19:00 until 21:00

Thomas Hardy Society visit to Stourhead

Sep2024

Neolithic site found under Max Gate

Sep2024

A Hedgehog Hospital for Dorset

Aug2024

Thomas Hardy Society Schools Outreach

Aug2024