Swindon Festival of Literature is an annual
literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include ...
festival
A festival is an event ordinarily celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival c ...
held in
Swindon
Swindon () is a town and unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in Wiltshire, England. As of the 2021 Census, the population of Swindon was 201,669, making it the largest town in the county. The Swindon un ...
, Wiltshire, England.
It was founded in 1994 by Matt Holland of Lower Shaw Farm, its HQ, and Dominic Winter (1953 - 2014).
For a quarter of a century, the Swindon Festival of Literature made May a high spot on Swindon’s cultural calendar. In 2019, to help Swindon celebrate all that it has to offer, and to offer all that it has to celebrate, in the arts, the Festival of Literature became the Swindon Spring Festival - of literature and the arts.
The spoken and written word is still at the heart of the festival, with plenty of authors, talks, discussions, and workshops.
But the new-look festival also celebrates other art forms. It includes dance, drama, music, film, and circus performances from the Festival’s partners in Swindon and from artists and performers further afield.
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Literary festivals in England
Festival of Literature
Festivals in Wiltshire
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