STROUD BOOK FESTIVAL 2021
Stroud Book Festival 2021 runs in venues in Stroud 3-7 November.
We are thrilled to launch this year's Festival illustration, designed this year by Lucia Leyfield. Read more about it in our blog here
To watch our 2020 events again, do visit our YouTube channel
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ABOUT STROUD BOOK FESTIVAL
Stroud Book Festival celebrates all things books. Headed up by a team of local authors, literary and cultural professionals, and with Ian McEwan as patron, the festival presents a creative programme of high-quality, entertaining and thought-provoking events to engage this vibrant local community. Stroud Book Festival contributes to the town’s thriving cultural landscape, making sure books are fully represented.
LATEST NEWS & UPDATES
The Big Reveal: Meet our Stroud Book Festival Illustration for 2021 by Louise Brice
Joining the extremely talented list of past Stroud Book Festival illustrators is Lucia Leyfield, artist, letterer and creative educator..
Why Stroud has a Book Festival by Caroline Sanderson
As co-director of Stroud Book Festival, the news that Stroud has been named “Best Place to Live” in the UK by The Sunday Times has entirely refocused my mind on the reasons why we have a book festival, just as we announce the 2021 dates for our (everything crossed) live and in-person events from 3-7 November.
STROUD BOOK FESTIVAL 2020 – Launch of full programme
Dear Friends of Stroud Book Festival, In this, our 5th birthday year, we are thrilled to launch our online programme for 2020. Every single one of our 24 online events has been programmed in the spirit of celebrating community, not just in Stroud and the Five Valleys, but also in the context of our wider…
We did it! £10,000 raised to make the 2020 Festival free and accessible to all
We are overjoyed to announce that we have raised over £10,000 to meet the target of our crowdfunding campaign. Our fundraising campaign, which ran for 6 weeks over the summer and ended on 31st August, was launched to help make the 2020 online programme of events free and accessible to everyone, whatever their means, location…
Festival Illustration announced, 16 July 2020
This year’s Stroud Book Festival will be ONLINE! Please watch this space for news on our crowdfunder, launching end of July 2020.
Stroud Book Festival ONLINE this year
This year’s Stroud Book Festival (4th-8th November) will take place ONLINE.