SAVE THE DATES
9th - 12th October 2025
Northwood House in Cowes is our primary festival venue supported in addition by St.Mary's Church on the edge of the Northwood estate.
Additional venues support and host events for us including, The Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes Enterprise College and The Island Sailing Club. For details on all our venues, head to our ABOUT PAGE.
KING'S AWARD FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE
The Isle of Wight Literary Festival has been honoured with The King’s Award for Voluntary Service; this is the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK and is the equivalent of an individual being awarded an MBE. The Festival has been recognised for its contribution to the education, cultural life and wellbeing of the community. In addition to the four-day event, the Festival also supports a Schools’ Programme, which takes authors, illustrators, poets and story tellers into schools to educate, entertain and inspire pupils.
Well done to all our volunteers for their efforts and dedication. This award is richly deserved.
2025 SPEAKERS
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WRITE ON WIGHT
SPECIAL EVENTS
FESTIVAL SPONSORS
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2024 Highlight Video
A celebration of our 2024 festival including our Main Author Programme, LitFeast segment, Write on Wight, Schools' Programme and our special events.
DISABILITY ASSISTANCE
We can accommodate all physical and hidden disabilities. The volunteers manage the venues and access to them, so will be able to prepare any requirements you may need.
All venues have disabled access. For our St Mary's venue and those unable to walk very far we have a golf buggy on hand to transport visitors.
We suggest that when booking your tickets please contact our volunteers at
volunteer@isleofwightliteraryfestival.com if you require assistance or please visit the volunteers desk on arrival at the festival.
Festival Tea Towel
Designed in collaboration with local Isle of Wight artist Maria Ward for our literary festival.
Printed and sewn in the UK, this panama cotton tea towel measures 68cm x 48cm, a bright addition to the kitchen and a perfect present.
LITFEAST SPONSORS
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SCHOOLS SPONSORS
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“They were a lovely on the ball audience who asked some brilliant questions and said some lovely things. It was just such a pleasure.”
Jo Brand
Comic, Actress and Author
of Born Lippy (2019 Festival Feedback)
“There is something really special about the Isle of Wight Festival, this was my second appearance there and I’ve thought so both times. It has such a lovely atmosphere – the weather just couldn’t make a dint in that!!”
Kate Hamer
Author of Crushed (2019 Festival feedback)
“This is a super, super literary festival. There are 350 literary festivals in this country. I feel like I’ve been to almost all of them! I’ve certainly been to over a hundred of them and this is right at the top. Because it’s the trifecta as far as every writer is concerned. They laugh at the jokes, they ask intelligent questions, penetrating intelligent questions, and they also bought the book. So you put those three things together and any writer is going to be happy to come.“
Andrew Roberts
Author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny
(2019 Festival feedback)
“A great treat for authors every year. Delightful surroundings and very efficient organisation. A thoroughly worthy cause!”
Peter Snow
(2018 Festival feedback)
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Northwood House | Ward Avenue
Cowes | Isle of Wight | PO31 9AZ
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