Sherborne Travel Writing Festival
11th - 13th April 2025
While our horizons may have drawn in during the recent pandemic, travel writers have continued to reach out, rediscovering and reinterpreting the world for a new age.
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The Sherborne Travel Writing Festival was the first travel literature festival to be held in the UK in recent years.
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At its heart was the idea – and the timely theme – of reaching for the horizon.
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To Benedict Allen, Don McCullin, Noo Saro-Wiwa, Nick Danziger,
Monisha Rajesh, Kassia St Clair, Hilary Bradt, Katie Carr, Bijan Omrani, Tom Parfit and Davina Quinlivan, and to our wonderful audiences,
thank you for making the 2024 Sherborne Travel Writing Festival such a thrilling, sell-out success.
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Curator Rory Maclean is already assembling next year's stellar lineup of footloose speakers. Booking opens January 2025.
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Booking Opens January 2025
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with thanks to our main sponsors
Festival Programme 2024
Friday 5 April
17:00 – 18.00 Noo Saro-Wiwa – Black Ghosts
19:00 – 20.00 Benedict Allen – Hot and Cold
Saturday 6th April
10:30 – 11.30 Hilary Bradt – Taking the Risk
12.00 – 13:00 Monisha Rajesh - Around the World by Train
13.00 – 14.00 Tea with the Authors
14:00 – 15.00 Writing Britain – a panel discussion with Hilary Bradt, Tim Hannigan, Brian Jackman & Caroline Mills
15:30 – 16.30 Bijan Omrani – The Ancient World and What Christianity Gave England
17:00 – 18.00 Katie Carr – Adrift on the Shipping Forecast
19:00 -20.00 Kassia St Clair – The Race to the Future
Sunday 7th April
11.00 – 12.30 Nick Danziger & Rory MacLean – Human rights and Telling Stories Together
13.30 – 14.30 Davina Quinlivan – Memoir, Travel and Nature Writing
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15.00 – 16.00 Tom Parfitt – In Russia’s Haunted Hinterland
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16.30 – 17.30 Don McCullin – Life & Death Behind the Lens
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