When we were approached by the publicists at Penguin regarding hosting Donal Ryan at Burford Lit Fest we were, of course. thrilled to say yes please. Donal Ryan, from Nenagh, County Tipperary, has published seven number one bestselling novels and a short story collection. He has won several awards for his fiction, including the European Union Prize for Literature, the Guardian First Book Award and six Irish Book Awards, and has been shortlisted for several more, including th

We are delighted to welcome artist and illustrator, Matthew Rice, to Burford Literary Festival 2026. Matthew will open our Festival at 6.30pm on Friday 25th September at Old Baptist Chapel, Witney Street, where he will be talking about his life in art and books with focus on his new book, A Year In The Garden. Matthew fell in love with watercolours at the age of 14 after a friend of his godmother died, leaving him a ream of finest watercolour paper. He discovered the magical

We are thrilled to release our tickets Burford Literary Festival. This year we have decided to reduce our early bird tickets to £12 and introduced a general access ticket for £80. We have kept our Litfest Friend annual price to £20 and introduced a Superfriend at £80 which includes two tickets to our event on Saturday evening with award winning authors Donal Ryan and Joanna Cannon (including refreshments). Information about all our events and tickets is available here. We l