News from the Dorchester Literary Festival
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Coronovirus update - DLF Hall & Woodhouse Writing Competition Award Ceremony postponed
Coronovirus update - Writing Competition ceremony postponed [Janet Gleeson: 30th Mar 2020 15:51:00]
Carol Ann Duffy wows Thomas Hardye School Theatre audience
Carol Ann Duffy [Janet Gleeson: 19th Nov 2019 15:39:00]
Sir Tim Waterstone - change of time, date and venue
Sir Tim Waterstone - change of time, date and venue [Janet Gleeson: 20th Sep 2019 14:01:00]
Talking Tea
Free tea and talk [Janet Gleeson: 16th Sep 2019 13:08:00]
Hall & Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize Results Announced
Hall & Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize Results [Janet Gleeson: 19th Jul 2019 08:51:00]
Alexander McCall Smith to speak at this year's festival
Alexander McCall Smith to speak at this year's festival [Janet Gleeson: 11th Jul 2019 12:22:00]
Hall &Woodhouse DLF Local Writing Prize
Hall & Woodhouse DLF Local Writing Prize [Janet Gleeson: 15th Nov 2018 08:59:00]
Orla Kiely Cancelled
Orla Kiely Cancelled [Janet Gleeson: 24th Sep 2018 19:30:00]
Hall & Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize - winner announced
Hall & Woodhouse DLF Writing Prize - winner announced [Janet Gleeson: 13th Jul 2018 09:22:00]
Hall & Woodhouse DLF Writing Competition - Shortlist Announced
Short list announced [Janet Gleeson: 18th Jun 2018 13:49:00]
Hall & Woodhouse DLF Writing Competition - Long list Announced
[Janet Gleeson: 28th May 2018 10:06:00]
Hall & Woodhouse DLF Writing Competition
The award ceremony will be held on 12th July at The Duchess of Cornwall, Poundbury [Janet Gleeson: 8th May 2018 16:24:00]
Local Writers Competition update
Hall & Woodhouse DLF Local Writers Prize [Janet Gleeson: 21st Dec 2017 11:33:00]
Kate Adie
Broadcaster Kate Adie OBE is joining the DLF team as patron [Janet Gleeson: 19th Dec 2017 12:00:00]
A N Wilson Festival Event SOLD OUT
A N WILSON's Dorchester Literary Festival Event is now SOLD OUT! [Janet Gleeson: 16th Oct 2017 07:26:00]
DLF Local Writing Prize
DLF Local Writing Prize [Janet Gleeson: 27th Sep 2017 13:58:00]
Hardy Today Poetry Jamie McKendrick
Hardy Today Poetry Jamie McKendrick [Janet Gleeson: 25th Aug 2017 12:35:00]
Minette Walters is back
The Last Hours is crime-writer Minette Walters' first full length novel in ten years. [Janet Gleeson: 25th Jul 2017 09:47:00]
Take A Look At Our #DorchLitFest2017 Festival Flyer
We have now published the flyer for Dorchester Literary Festival 2017. Download your copy in PDF format now. [Jon Sloper: 7th Jul 2017 12:54:00]
Henry Blofeld coming to Dorchester
Henry Blofeld the voice of cricket is coming to the Dorchester Literary Festival on Saturday 21st October to discuss his memoir Over and Out. [Janet Gleeson: 24th Jun 2017 10:21:00]
Ian Mortimer The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain
If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history... [Janet Gleeson: 15th Mar 2017 16:26:00]
Fergal Keane Wounds
Fergal Keane OBE will join us at the Dorchester Literary Festival to talk about his latest book Wounds A Memoir of Love and War, a family story of a murder, blood and betrayal that tore an Irish town apart and causes men to be silent still. [Janet Gleeson: 15th Mar 2017 16:20:00]
Iby Knill The Woman with Nine Lives
An Auschwitz Holocaust survivor, Iby Knill survived capture, imprisonment and torture before volunteering as a nurse with a slave labour transport. Now in her 90s she will join us to tell her remarkable story. [Janet Gleeson: 3rd Mar 2017 09:13:00]
A N Wilson Charles Darwin Victorian Mythmaker
Best selling historian A N Wilson will talk about his latest book a radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin [Janet Gleeson: 3rd Mar 2017 09:07:00]
Festival Sponsors
Plans for this year’s festival are well underway. [Janet Gleeson: 9th Jan 2017 10:01:00]
Review of Dorchester Literary Festival 2016
The review of the Dorchester Literary Festival 2016 is in, you can read the full review on the homepage of our site. We'd love to hear any feedback from any visitors that came along to the 2016 festival. [Dorchester Literary Festival: 7th Dec 2016 15:21:00]
Programme for Dorchester Literary Festival 2016
Here's the confirmed programme for the festival this year. [Jon Sloper: 6th Oct 2016 12:48:00]
DLF back bigger and better says Dorset Echo.
[Helen Mockridge: 29th Jul 2016 14:05:00]
New Chapter in Dorchester Literary Festival
Festival all set for the next chapter, writes Harry Hogger in the Dorset Echo... [Janet Gleeson: 25th Apr 2016 09:38:00]
Dr Julia Shaw and The Memory Illusion
Forensic psychologist Dr Julia Shaw shows the astonishing ways memories are not as reliable as we think in a fascinating insight into the human brain. [Janet Gleeson: 16th Mar 2016 10:33:00]
Lord Dannatt discusses Boots on the Ground
Richard Dannatt chronicles the army's history since 1945 and talks about his new book Boots on the Ground [Janet Gleeson: 14th Mar 2016 17:46:00]
Hardy Today : best-selling panellists announced
Rachel Joyce and Dinah Jefferies talk about strong women and Hardy's legacy in modern fiction with Dr Tony Fincham [Janet Gleeson: 14th Mar 2016 17:40:00]
Tracy Chevalier Talks Apples
Our patron Tracy Chevalier will be reading from her new book On the Edge of the Orchard and chatting to award winning cider maker Penny Strong about the trials and triumphs of apple growing and cider making. [Helen Mockridge: 14th Mar 2016 17:33:00]
Kate Adie to share her Desert Island Books with Paul Atterbury
Kate Adie will choose eight books that have inspired her in conversation with Paul Atterbury on Sunday 23rd October at 5.00pm [Janet Gleeson: 14th Mar 2016 17:21:00]
River Cottage Forager John Wright confirmed for DLF on Friday 21st October.
One of Britain's best known naturalists talks to us about one of Britain's most characteristic landscape features; the humble hedgerow and tells us why they are so important. [Helen Mockridge: 14th Mar 2016 17:03:00]