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Dates for your diary
Now
Tickets are already on sale for our Summer Launch event with Patrick Gale on 29th June 2026
Our Creative Writing Competition is open for entries for Adults & Children alike!
May 2026
Programme revealed and Priority Booking for members of our Supporters Scheme
1st June 2026
Programme revealed and Priority Booking for our Newsletter Subscribers
29th June 2026
Summer Launch event with Patrick Gale on 29th June 2026 - with special 25% off offer for attendees
1st JULY 2026
General Booking Opens
We hope you will join us for the exciting next chapter of our festival’s story as we GO ALL IN to join the National Literacy Trust’s Year of Reading.
In 2025 we...
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Grew our audience by 30% and sold 72.13% of our possible capacity!
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Engaged 1130 local school-aged children in activities and events, including author visits to 4 local schools.
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Provided 160 free tickets for U18s for author events plus 3 bursary workshop places for those in financial need.
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Delivered a fortnight of events workshops and walks for the first time.
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Engaged over 4,000 local audience members to embrace literacy, empathy, discussion and community.
“I had a wonderful time at the Bury Festival: an engaged and intelligent audience, an excellent chair and a very welcoming set of hosts. I'd strongly recommend it to any author.”
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"One of the most welcoming literary festivals I’ve had the honour of speaking at. Without question, attending Bury Lit 2023 was one of my highlights of the year."
"Bury is a friendly, well attended and well organised festival in a most delightful location: it was a pleasure to be a part of it in 2023. The talks were interesting and so were the questions."
“I absolutely loved my experience at Bury Lit Fest - the organisers, the volunteers, and the audience were all fantastic!”
Sam Leith,
guest author BLF 2024
Ashley Hickson-Lovence
guest author BLF 2023
Marion Gibson, guest author BLF 2023
Kirsty Capes
guest author BLF 2024