Isle of Wight Literary Festival

SAVE THE DATES  5th – 8th October

Over 45 speakers  including Lynda La Plante, Tracy Borman, Robert Hardman, Joanne Harris,  and Alan Johnson took part in the 2022 Festival.  Plans are already underway for this year’s Festival – Thursday 5th – Sunday 8th October. Be sure to put the dates in your diary so you don’t miss out.

IWLF 2022

Talks from the 2022 Festival are available on our YouTube channel. To find out who former Home Secretary Alan Johnson thinks gave the most memorable speech while he was in parliament; to learn the inside story of the Concorde crash from former chief Concorde pilot Mike Bannister; and to discover how to build an aircraft carrier from documentary maker Chris Terrill click here.

Steve Ancsell and the award-winning team AirwavesTV that produces Cowes Week provided coverage for the 2022 Festival.   Steve and team, who have produced our two digital festivals, carried out interviews with speakers and others involved in the festival set up and recorded several speakers.

You can watch interviews  and digital sessions from previous years on the Isle of Wight Literary Festival You Tube channel.