Dates for your diary - Literature 2022

The Literature Festival 2022 - Diary Dates now ready

Cheltenham Literature Festival?is the world’s first literature festival, leading the way in celebrating the written and spoken word, presenting the best new voices in fiction and poetry alongside literary greats and high-profile speakers, while inspiring over 9,000 school children with a love of books through its Literature for Schools programme.

Take a look at next years festival dates and get them added to your diary, you do not want to miss out. 7 - 16 October 2022.

The Festival also has an accompanying year-round programme of education and talent development outreach including its flagship?Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils?project which has rolled out nationally, enabling teachers and their pupils to rediscover the joy of reading.

The other programmes include: the award-winning?Beyond Words, a creative writing project working with vulnerable young people unable to access mainstream education in Gloucestershire,?Words That Burn,?a national human rights poetry project created in partnership with Amnesty International and?Write Now, a unique mentoring, workshop and networking project that nurtures young people’s creative writing abilities.

Still leading the way in celebrating the written and spoken word, the world’s first literature festival will?Read the World, presenting the best new voices in fiction and poetry alongside literary greats and high-profile speakers. The Festival’s pioneering mix of in-person and online events won it a coveted FutureBook 2020: Best Lockdown Event award and its Literature for Schools programme inspires a love of books in thousands of school children.