Words

The written word is the foundation stone of the festival. Although we now feature many diverse art forms, we started out a decade ago as a literary festival. We have dedicated stages run by Five Dials magazine, The Idler and DoveGreyReader as well as our very own tent on the Bowling Green. Some of the already confirmed literature highlights for 2014:

Craig Taylor, Lauren Elkin, Mathew Clayton, Joanna Walsh, Ben Watt, Kamila Shamsie, Richard Benson, Murray Lachlan Young, Alexia Coley, Michael Howells, Brian Selznick, James Flint, Martin Parr, Christopher Hampton, Shami Chakrabarti, John Yorke, Simon Garfield, Dan Kieran, Rachel Cooke, Alex Bellos, Viv Albertine, Will Atkins, Patrick Barkham, Will Hodgkinson, Malcolm Anderson, Zita West, Michael Smith, Melissa Harrison, Tim Dee, Matthew De Abaitua, Viva Hamnell, Charles Rangeley-Wilson, Jon Lee Anderson, Sean Borodale, Rosie Boycott, Nikita Lalwani, Neil Sentance, Jay Griffiths, Mick Brown, Kipper Williams, Emily Barr, Luke Wright, NJ Stevenson, Tim Pilcher, Tim Lott, Clare Pollard, Matthew Green, David Bramwell, Lucy Cooke, Michael Tyack, Martin Robinson, Andy Wright, Trevor Cox, Oliver Broadbent, Ben Moor, Mark Vernon, Julian Mash, Tom Hodgkinson and Chris Lintott.

These are the first confirmed literary names for the 2014 Port Eliot Festival. Please sign up to our mailing list, follow us on Twitter or Facebook for regular line-up announcements.