Tickets are on sale for the Red Funnel Isle of Wight Literary Festival, Thursday 11th – Sunday 14th October 2018. To view the programme and purchase tickets click here.
Tickets are on sale on line only for the Red Funnel Isle of Wight Festival Youth Zone, Saturday 20th – Sunday 21st October. To view the programme and buy tickets click here.

Isle of Wight Literary Festival 2018

MAIN PROGRAMME TICKETS

To view the Red Funnel Isle of Wight Literary Festival programme and purchase tickets click here.

A 10% discount is offered on purchases of six or more £9 tickets. Tickets are also available from The Isle of Wight Visitor Information Centre, Newport Monday to Friday from 09.30 to 15.30, St Mary’s Entrance, Northwood House from 13.00 to 14.00 Tuesdays and Thursdays and from the Telephone Box Office 07510314180 from 17.00 to 18.00 on Mondays and Wednesdays.

You can download the two page pocket guide and quickly browse the programme. IWLF 2018 Pocket Guide

YOUTH ZONE TICKETS

To view the exciting programme and purchase tickets for the Red Funnel Isle of Wight Literary Festival Youth Zone click here.

This year’s Youth Zone is being held the weekend after the main programme, Saturday 20th – Sunday 21st October in Northwood House, Cowes. The House will be magically transformed into the Entertain Space, Think Space, Imagine Space, Head Space, Create Space, Courtyard Space, Make Space and Book Space.

2018 Programme

Browse our Bookshelf

2017 Youth Zone Gallery

Friends & benefactors

Volunteers

Festival Radio

The award-winning team that brings Cowes Week its very own radio station, Cowes Radio for more than 30 years, are once again broadcasting online at the Red Funnel Isle of Wight Literary Festival. Steve Ancsell and friends will be providing key event information throughout the four days and interviewing as many of the people that their microphones can reach, giving insights to the talks, topics and the books the visiting authors are so passionate about.

Listen in here online by clicking the play arrow button. And if you visited the event, do send us your views – or just a good old request for a mention – to; studio@877fm.uk.

Launch IWLF Radio Player

FEEDBACK FROM ATTENDEES

“Every session I attended was excellent and all probably in different ways. The standard was extremely high I thought – even though I had thought last year’s Festival could not be bettered for me!”
Festival Attendee

“Ruth Rosen’s talk was magical in every sense. Her reading of Keats poetry and letters certainly provided the ‘escapism’ from the realities of daily life as underlined by the Programme Director, Anthea Parker, in her Foreword to the Isle of Wight Literary Festival programme.”
Sue Hicks

FEEDBACK FROM PRESENTERS

“Just to thank you for a wonderful visit to the IOW! It was such a privilege to bring an autumnal Cuckoo to the Literary Festival. I had a lovely audience with some great questions and I really enjoyed the special atmosphere of the weekend.”
Nick Davies

“It is certainly one of the best I’ve been to, really friendly and efficient, with all the writers being made to feel special and welcome.”
Christopher Somerville

“I loved it! I think the festival was a great success and I have the advantage of being able to compare it to others. Nothing else has quite the camaraderie or the devoted audiences.”
Jane Thynne