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WELCOME TO THE

FIFTEENTH

SWINDON FESTIVAL

OF LITERATURE!

5 – 18 May 2008

Daffodils, dandelions, and flower-filled roundabouts apart,
Spring in Swindon signals the start of the festival season.

First out of the blocks is the Festival of Literature!

Now that we have stretched our bodies out of winter slumber, let’s
stretch our minds.

This year’s Festival offers entertainment, exploration, and ideas
aplenty. It includes prize-winning novelists, poets, politicians,
philosophers, scientists, storytellers, historians, film-makers,
fairtrade-makers, artists, and activists. Ours is a festival that sets
out to prove that when readers meet writers, and writers meet
readers, enjoyable, interesting, serious, worthwhile, unpredictable,
funny, and memorable things happen.

The Festival begins, as ever, with fun and the rising sun, at dawn on
that high ridge overlooking the town in Lawn Woods – on the
Spring Bank Holiday, Monday 5th May!

And on each subsequent day, there will be three or more events, at
midday, teatime, and in the evening, carefully spaced and placed,
to enable you to attend almost every one, should you have the
stamina! For the full at-a-glance Festival diary, turn over the page.

And then, mark your own diary, so that from the 5th to the 18th
May you know where to be, if you want to be meeting, greeting,
hearing, talking, listening, and celebrating the world of words,
with others!

Please read on, and come along.

MATT HOLLAND
Festival Organiser

Swindon Festival of Literature, Lower Shaw Farm, Shaw, Swindon Wiltshire
SN5 5PJ • Tel: 01793 771080
e-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk
5 – 18 May 2008 See over for full diary