Sturminster Newton Literary Festival focuses on celebrating three writers associated with the town (Thomas Hardy, William Barnes, and Robert Young), current Dorset and Wessex writers, and aspiring writers of the future. The festival has a range of talks, workshops, guided walks, and collaborative events with local businesses to promote writing from the region.
Events 2024
Our online calender of events is now complete apart from the final details for our DDay exhibition and memorial event. These will be posted as soon as they are available.
Our printed programme will be available shortly thereafter and we will begin distributing it around Sturminster Newton and further afield. If you have a suitable location (eg a waiting room, B&B etc) and would like some for your guests please contact us and we will send or deliver them to you. Your help in publicising the Festival is always appreciated!
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Our printed programme will be available shortly thereafter and we will begin distributing it around Sturminster Newton and further afield. If you have a suitable location (eg a waiting room, B&B etc) and would like some for your guests please contact us and we will send or deliver them to you. Your help in publicising the Festival is always appreciated!
Subscribe to our mailing list on Substack to keep informed as the Festival develops.
The UK commemorates 80 years since DDay on the 6th June 2024. As part of this commemoration, Sturminster Newton Literary Festival is devoting the 9th of June to military history. We’re offering a special price ticket covering all events on that day including:
- 14:00: D-Day Spearhead Brigade – The Story of the Hampshires, Dorsets and Devons on 6th June 1944 by James Porter.
- ~15:00: Official opening of the special D-Day testimony exhibition at The Exchange.
- 16:15: The Army that Never Was – D Day and the Great Deception by Taylor Downing.