Stratford Literary Festival: Friday

Fri 8 May View Venues, Dates & Times

Festival events and workshops taking place on Friday 8 May

Stratford Literary Festival returns in Spring 2026, from Thursday 7 until Sunday 10 May.

The Friday programme takes place in Stratford-upon-Avon's Crowne Plaza Hotel (CV37 6YR), and features a series of events suitable for adults (see below) and one workshop - Clare Clark's How to Finish your Novel.

The Friday programme includes talks by:

Dr Tony Juniper - Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet

Gillian McAllister & BA Paris - Caller Unknown and When I Kill You

David Challen & Harriet Wistrich - The Sally Challen Case: Domestic Violence and the Criminal Justice System

James Holland - The Visionaries

David Roche & Gillian McAllister - AI and the Future of Fiction

Nicholas Crane - The Path More Travelled 

Antony Beevor - Rasputin and the Downfall of the Romanovs

Blake Morrison - On Memoir: An A-Z of Life Writing

Arthur Snell - Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change

Felicity Cloake - The Underdog and Peach Street to Lobster Lane

Nicci French - What Happened That Night

Adam Rutherford & Natalie Haynes - The History of Everyone Who Ever Lived 10th anniversary

Ardal O'Hanlon - A Plot to Die For

Matthew Cobb - Crick - A Mind in Motion

The Booklovers' Wine Club - What to Drink with the Classics

Larry Lamb - All Wrapped Up

Natalie Haynes - No Friend to this House

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