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 combination of...

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 look forward to...

We are delighted to announce that our final event for Burford Lit Fest is now confirmed. At 7pm Saturday 26th September authors Joanna Cannon and Donal Ryan will be talking about their life as acclaimed authors and their works. Joanna Cannon’s first two novels, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things about Elsie, were both Sunday Times bestsellers and Richard and Judy picks. Her first non-fiction book, Breaking and Mending, a memoir about her experience as a junior doctor, was...