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NEW: Xiaolu Guo

Creative • Connected • Global

Welcome to the Lockdown LitFest, a digitally-native literature and culture hub, born in the time of COVID-19 to bring a real-world festival experience to your home screens. We’re here for these tough times and beyond, to deliver interviews, readings, masterclasses and more, whatever your age or interests.

With an ever-growing schedule of new talent, old favourites and best-selling household names, we’ll connect you with authors, poets, scholars, scientists, illustrators and more, slow-cooking a feast for your minds and souls.

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Imagine a whole literature festival for you, at home, with no tickets to buy*, no tent to pitch or hotel to book, no train tickets or fuel required and no need to pack suncream, wellies and flipflops!

What’s more, most of our events will be beamed to you live and then archived so you never have to miss anything. Convenient and green!

Welcome all, and feel free to browse around. As the days go by, the variety of shows on offer will keep growing.

Look out, too, for our Children’s and Young Adult events, where you’ll find some of the most imaginative creative minds in the world.

*No tickets to buy, but if you are enjoying all that we offer, we’re grateful for donations to keep us afloat, through our “Patreon” page – just click our “Become a Patron” button. It’s quick and easy, and will allow us to support writers who are struggling with loss of income from live events.