Design Practice II//Product/Range/Distribution//Literary Festivals.

http://www.literaryfestivals.co.uk/festivalslist.html


Researching some general literary festivals within the United Kingdom, to act as inspiration for potential promotional and marketing designs within my project outcome, specifically to promote my new branded Grimms Fairy Tales book series.


For me, the literary festival that particularly stands out in the Hay Festival, down in my neck of the woods (I live in Shropshire, so it's just next door!) in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. The Hay Literary Festival is one of the largest and most popular in the entire world, and attracts wonderfully talented and prolific guest speakers, combining literary topics with theatre and music- this year attracting speakers such as children's author, Michael Morpurgo and musician, comedian, and composer Tim Minchin (who has, most recently, scored the West End production of Roald Dahl's classic story, 'Matilda').


I will go on to look at Hay in a little more detail, though I think this has really great potential for my design project, and something that I could get really excited about- as well as putting my designs into further more context (as well as being Penguin/Puffin branded).


More design developments can be found on my Design Practice blog.

Aberdeen Writers Festival

Aldeburgh Literary Festival

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival

Althorp Literary Festival
Appledore Book Festival
Asia House Festival of Asian Literature
Athlone Literary Festival
Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival
Ayot Literary Festival
Bard of Armagh Festival of Humerous Verse
Bath Festival of Literature
Bath Festival of Children’s Literature
BBC Proms Lit Festival
Belfast Festival at Queens
Beverley Literature Festival
Beyond the Border - Wales International Storytelling Festival
Big Oak Literary and Arts Festival - Londonderry
Books, Borders, Bikes, Peebleshire, Scotland
Borders Book Festival
Boswell Book Festival
Bournemouth Literary Festival
Brighton Festival
Brighton and Hove City Reads
Bristol Poetry FestivalBudleigh Salterton Literary Festival
Burnham Market Book Festival
Buxton Festival

Cambridge WordFest,

Cambridge Winter Wordfest,
Canterbury Festival
Caomhnú Literary Festival
Chalke Valley History Festival
Charleston Festival
Cheltenham Literature Festival (Times )
Chipping Norton Literary Festival
Chorleywood Literature Festival (edge of the Chilterns)
Coleridge Literary Festival
Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival
Cúirt International Festival of Literature (Galway, Ireland)

Dartington Hall Way with Words Festival
Daphne du Maurier Festival
Dublin Book Festival
Dublin Writers Festival
Dundee
Durham Book Festival
Dylan Thomas Festival

Ealing Literary Festival
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Essex Book Festival
Essex Poetry Festival
Eype Literary Festivals, Dorset
Word Up, London
First Story Festival
Folkestone Book Festival
Free the WordFrome Festival - Writers and Publishers Day

Gort Literature Festival
Graham Greene Festival
Guardian Hay Festival
Guernsey Literary Festival
Guildford Book Festival

Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival
Havant Literary Festival
Hay Festival

Hebden Bridge Festival

Henley Literature Festival
Hexham Book Festival
Hillingdon Festival of History and Literature
Huddersfield Literature Festival
Humber Mouth Literature Festival
Ilkley Literature Festival
Islay Book Festival
Immrama Lismore Festival of Travel Writing
Inverness Book Festival
John Clare Festival
Kings Lynn Literary Festival
Kings Lynn Poetry Festival
King's Sutton Literary Festival
Knutsford Literature Festival -
Laugharne Weekend Friday
Latitude Festival
Lavenham Literary Festival
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Literary Leicester Festival
LennoxLove Book Festival
Lincoln Book Festival
Lichfield literature
Linlithgow Book Festival, West Lothian
Literary Dundee
Litro Live!
London History Festival
London Literature Festival
London Word Festival
LSE Space for Thought Literary Weekend
Manchester Literature Festival
Manchester Childrens Book Festival
Marlborough Literature Festival
Middlesbrough Literary FestivalMorley

Nairn Book and Arts Festival

Newcastle Winter Book Festival

New Writers UK

North Herts Book Festival

Ottery St. Mary Coleridge Literary Festival

Oxford (Sunday Times) Literary Festival

Peak Festival

Penzance Literary Festival Cornwall

Petworth Literary Weekend, West Sussex

Pocklingtom Literature Festival
Port Eliot Lit Fest

Richmond Upon Thames Literature Festival (Formerly Book Now Festival)
Redbridge Book and Media Festival

Saffron Walden Literature Festival

Salisbury International Arts Festival

Scarborough Literature Festival

Scottish International Storytelling Festival

Sentinel Literature Festival

Sevenoaks Literary Celebration

Shoreditch Festival

South Asian Literature Festival (SALF)

Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival

Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival

STANZA Poetry Festival

Surrey Heath Literary Festival

St. Ives Literarture Festival

Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Strokestown International Poetry Festival

Swindon Festival of Literature

SW11 Literary Festival  

Times Cheltenham Literature Festival

Thame Arts & Literature festival
Theakstons Harrogate Crime Writing Festival
Throckmorton Literary FestivalTS Eliot Festival
Ullapool Book Festival
University of Aberdeen Writers' Festival
University of East Anglia Literary Festival
Warwick Words
Wells Festival of Literature
Wenlock Poetry FestivalWest Cork Literary Festival
West Meon Festival of BooksWigtown Book Festival
Winchester Writers’ Conference Festival and Book Fair
Wirral Bookfest
Wolds Word (Louth, Alford and Lincolnshire Wolds)
Woodstock
Worlds Literature Festival (Norwich Writers Centre)
World Literature Weekend (London Review of Books)
Worcestershire Literary FestivalWordfringe
Words in Motion at the Big Chill
York Literature Festival