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Poetry Festivals

We would appreciate any help towards ensuring that all
regularly held festivals which are of interest to poets are listed here.

More General Literary Festivals are below the Poetry Festivals list

Below this listing there are some further lists for USA and Australian Festivals.


JANUARY


FEBRUARY

Bath Literary Festival - Bath - UK
http://www.bathlitfest.org.uk/

MARCH

Words by the Water Literature Festival - Kendal, West Cumbria - UK

http://www.wayswithwords.co.uk.

Essex Book Festival - Essex, UK
http://www.essexbookfestival.org.uk/

Kings Lynn Literary Festival - UK
http://www.lynnlitfests.com/

Oundle Festival of Literature - Northamptonshire - UK
http://www.oundlelitfest.org.uk/: (Events through the year)

http://www.stanzapoetry.org/

Text Festival - Bury - UK
Next 2016 - Biennial
http://www.textfestival.com/

York Literature Festival - York UK

http://www.yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk/

Huddersfield Literature Festival - Huddersfield - UK
www.litfest.org.uk

APRIL: South Downs Poetry Festival - Hampshire and Sussex.- UK
events through the year see website; www.sdpf.org.uk

Truro Festival - UK

http://www.trurofestival.co.uk

Austin International Poetry Festival - Texas - USA
Now in its 13th year http://www.aipf.org/

Liverpool Biannual International Poetry Festival - Liverpool/Wirral UK
Information from info@poetrykit.org

Writing on the Wall Festival - Liverpool UK
http://writingonthewall.org.uk/
0151 707 4313
info@writingonthewall.org.uk

Cambridge Literary Festival - Cambridge UK
http://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/

Wenlock Poetry Festival - Much Wenlock, Shropshire, UK

MAY

Dublin Writers Festival - Dublin - Ire

http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com/

Dorchester Festival of Music and Arts - UK
Some literary content
http://www.dorchesterarts.org.uk/

St Ives Literature Festival - UK

http://stiveslitfest.info

Dulwich Festival - London, UK
http://www.dulwichfestival.co.uk/

Chorlton Arts Festival - Manchester, UK
www.chorltonartsfestival.com

Spring Pulse Poetry Festival - Cobolt Ontario - Canada

www.springpulsepoetryfestival.com

Bodmin Moor Poetry Festival - Sterts Arts Centre, near Liskeard, Cornwall - UK

www.bodminmoorpoetryfestival.co.uk

JUNE

Annikki Poetry Festival - Finland

http://www.annikinkatu.net/runofestivaali/english.htm

Paris Lit Up - France

http://parislitup.com/about-us/

Bridlington Poetry Festival - UK

www.bridlington-poetry-festival.com

Charles Causley Festival - Launceston - UK - UK
Tickets: 01566 772321
‎Email: ccf.organiser@gmail.com
http://charlescausleyfestival.co.uk/

Grassington Festival - Yorks, UK

http://www.grassington-festival.org.uk:80/

The Guardian Hay Festival - Hay-on-Wye - UK
https://www.hayfestival.com/portal/index.aspx?skinid=1&localesetting=en-GB

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival - Hebdon Bridge - UK
http://hebdenbridge.co.uk/index.html

International Poetry Festival - Rotterdam, Holland
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/activity/news/27702/Vertaal-zelf-festivalpoezie

Lowdham Book Festival - Lowdhan, Nottingham - UK
http://www.lowdhambookfestival.co.uk/

T S Eliot Festival - Little Gidding UK

http://www.littlegidding.org.uk/


JULY

Frome Festival - Somerset, UK
http://www.fromefestival.co.uk/
Hebden Bridge Festival - UK
http://hebdenbridge.co.uk/index.html

Henley Festival - UK
http://www.henley-festival.co.uk/

Ledbury Poetry Festival - Ledbury, UK
www.poetry-festival.co.uk: Penzance Literary Festival - UK; www.pzlitfest.co.uk

Lichfield Festival - UK
http://www.lichfieldfestival.org/

Ways with Words - Dartington Hall Festival - UK
http://www.wayswithwords.co.uk/


The Gerard Manley Hopkins International Literary Festival - Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org
AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival, Devon, - UK
http://www.budlitfest.org.uk

Tucson Poetry Festival - USA
http://www.tucsonpoetryfestival.org/

Rye Festival - UK
www.ryefestival.co.uk: Stratford-on-Avon - UK

www.shakespeare.org.uk/poetryfestival
Stratford-on-Avon - UK: www.shakespeare.org.uk/poetryfestival

Royston Arts Festival - UK: http://www.roystonartsfestival.org/

Small Wonder, Short story Festival - Charleston, UK Situated 6 miles east of Lewes, East Sussex
http://www.charleston.org.uk/smallwonder/index.html

OCTOBER

Poetry Swindon - Swindon, UK

http://www.poetryswindon1.blogspot.co.uk/p/festival.html

Belfast Festival - Belfast, NI

http://www.belfastfestival.com/

Derwent Poetry Festival - Matlock Bath October 27-28, UK http://www.templarpoetry.co.uk
Tucson Poetry Festival - Tucson, USA
http://www.tucsonpoetryfestival.org/

Manchester Poetry Festival - UK
http://www.manchesterpoetryfestival.co.uk/

Essex Poetry Festival - UK
http://www.essex-poetry-festival.co.uk

Torbay Festival of Poetry - UK

http://www.acumen-poetry.co.uk/

North Cornwall Book Festival - UK

www.northcornwallbookfestival.org

Los Gatos/Listowel Writer's Week, California - USA

http://writersweeklosgatos.com/

Warwick Words - Festival of Literature and Spoken Word - UK: www.warwickwords.co.uk

Poetry International (biennial) - London, UK
http://www.rfh.org.uk/poetryint/flash.html

NOVEMBER

The Pacific Festival of the Book - Victoria, Canada
www.pacificfestivalofthebook.com
Derwent Poetry Festival - Bath: http://templarpoetry.com/products/derwent-poetry-festival-full-festival-ticket

The Dylan Thomas Festival - Swansea
http://www.dylanthomas.com/: Looe Literary Festival - UK

www.looeliteraryfestival.co.uk

Cornwall Contemporary - UK

www.cornwallcontemporary.wordpress.com

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival - UK: http://www.thepoetrytrust.org/festival/programme/

Woodstock Poetry Festival - Woodstock UK
http://www.woodstockbookshop.co.uk/

Ways With Words Southwold Literature Festival - UK http://www.wayswithwords.co.uk
Richmond Literature Festival - London, UK: http://www.richmondliterature.com/

Lancaster Lit Fest - UK
http://www.litfest.org/