Cambridge Literary Festival
Online events all year round with the best authors and most current issues
One-off events
Up Next: Book Club: Elif Shafak | Wednesday 17 March
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Bringing an eclectic mix of today’s best writers, thinkers and speakers to Cambridge all year round
SPRING FESTIVAL ONLINE 2021
Due to the ongoing pandemic, we are unable to deliver our usual live spring festival.
Instead, we will remain online until we can safely open our doors and welcome you back.
We will continue to bring you today’s most exciting writers and cover global issues.
Regular favourites like the Debut Writers panel and the New Statesman Debate will be back plus vibrant children’s events.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Spring Festival Online 21 – 25 April
CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL ONLINE
28 MARCH – 31 MARCH
Available on demand until 11 April
Authors include Julia Donaldson, Alex T. Smith, Smriti Halls, Neal Layton, and many more
Get access to every event for £15 with a Children’s Festival Online Pass
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Watch and listen to our expanding archive of over 90 audio and video recordings from our previous festivals.
Delight in the world’s most engaging thinkers, speakers and writers on film and audio online, anytime.
ONE-OFF EVENTS
Past one-off speakers include Patti Smith, Colm Tóibín, Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, and many more…


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As part of the Cambridge Literary Festival we are delighted to make you a special offer: Try the New Statesman for just £12 for 12 weeks.
Enjoy some of the best political and cultural writing of our times by NS favourites such as John Gray, Stephen Bush, Ali Smith, Elif Shafak and James O’Brien.
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Our favourite quotes
"Books mean all possibilities"
Ali Smith, Festival Patron
"Ireland has the imagination to change"
Colm Toibin
"Festivals are our last remaining democratic spaces"
Elif Shafak, Festival Patron
"Misremembering our past is a delusion"
David Olusoga
"Identity is not a place - make peace with the place you are in"
Afua Hirsch
"I’ve missed literary festivals"
John Crace
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