3RD - 6TH OCTOBER 2024

Northwood House in Cowes is our primary festival venue supported in addition by St.Mary's Church on the edge of the Northwood estate.

This year additional venues will be supporting and hosting 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.

For an EVENT MAP of Northwood House click here.

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.

KING'S AWARD FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

SPEAKERS

SCHOOLS

PROGRAMME

FESTIVAL SPONSORS

“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)