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Milton Keynes Literary Festival 

A fabulous festival of books, words, writers and ideas that celebrates everything literary, bookish or wordy

Events for Spring 2025

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Lizzie Damilola Blackburn: The Re-Write
Free Speech and Literature: Literature and Offence
Free Speech and Literature: The Age of the Algorithm
Free Speech and Literature: Translation and Censorship
Edward Stourton - Confessions
Free Speech and Literature: Historical Cancel Culture
Ingram Day for Indie Authors
Home: MinK2025 Prizewinners Ceremony and Anthology Launch
Poetry in the Pavilion: Will Burns and Hannah Copley
Workshop: Finding Your Voice
Workshop: What Editing Is
Free Speech & the Politics of Literature
Lubaaba Al-Azami: Travellers in the Golden
Anna February - The Hive
Hallie Rubenhold: Story of a Murder
Sanjana Modha - Sanjana Feasts
Workshop: Spinning Tales from Myth and Folklore
Kaliane Bradley - The Ministry of Time
Laura Henry-Allain MBE: Maya & Marley and the Great Big Tidy Up
Jack Noel - Dadbot (Age 6+)
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Mark Billingham - The Wrong Hands
Dreams for Beltane

>> Read/Download/Listen

Join us on Spotify, where you can listen to recordings to several of our in-person and online events. Or why not download our Soundwalk audio anthology to accompany a walk through Great Linford Park and beyond? If you prefer the printed word, copies of our 2024, 2023, 2020 and 2018 Competition Winners' Anthologies are available to order as printed or digital books. Click the images below to access.

MK Lit Fest: The Podcasts
MK Lit Fest: The Podcasts - Never MInd the Baubles
Poets for Movember: podcast edition
MK Lit Fest podcast: Dreams for Lammas on Spotify
MK Lit Fest podcast: Polly Toynbee on Spotify
MK Lit Fest podcast: Natalie Bennett on Spotify
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Never Mind the Baubles: PDF booklet
MK Lit Fest podcast: Caroline Lucas - Another England
MK Lit Fest podcast: A Literary Magazines Masterclass with Prole on Spotify
MK Lit Fest podcast: Francis Spufford on Spotify
MK Lit Fest podcast: Russell Jones on Spotify
Walking Home - audio anthology

Spring Festival 2024

MK Lit Fest Spring Festival 2024
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Latest additions on LitFlix!

Video replays of Lit Fest events for you to watch on our YouTube channel

Around the War in Twenty Stories: Ukrainian Tales of Hope, Humanity and Humour
Russell Jones - Four Chancellors and a Funeral
The Long and Short of It: The Novella with Emily  Bullock
The Long and Short of It: Flash Fiction with Electra Rhodes
The Long and Short of It: The Novel with Amit Chaudhuri
The Long and Short of It: Short Stories with Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Dirty New Town: John Grindrod and Owen Hatherley

Support Us

If you are able, your kind donations will help us continue to organise our In-person, Online and Community programmes of events.

We would also love to hear from any organisations or individuals who would be interested in partnering with us or sponsoring our activities. 

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