Entries are now open for the Chiswick Book Festival Young Poets Competition (see last year’s winners above). It is free and open to children (UK only) in Years 3 to 7. There are five year-group categories, with prizes awarded in each section. Read more on ChiswickW4.com and download the rules and details here. Entries close on Saturday June 8th 2024.

This year’s Chiswick Book Festival is being launched with a monthly season of films written by Harold Pinter at The Chiswick Cinema. See the next films and dates – and book tickets – here.

Read our latest Newsletter (and join our mailing list) here.

Please save this year’s Festival dates: September 11th-18th 2024.
To volunteer or suggest authors, please email: admin@chiswickbookfestival.net.

Harold Pinter wrote The Caretaker in Chiswick. Read more on our Chiswick Writers Trail and map.
Clive Myrie speaking to Clare Clark and a full house in 2023 in St Michael & All Angels Church, which hosts the Festival

Thanks to everyone involved in the 2023 Festival.
Relive more of the best moments through the photographs below

Alan Titchmarsh and Rosie Fyles, head of gardens at Chiswick House & Gardens, who spoke at Chiswick House

Dame Jacqueline Wilson speaking to a large audience of children and parents in St Michael & All Angels Church
See our Photo Galleries, day-by-day here
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In September 2023, we brought together top authors and their readers for a feast of history, poetry, biography, creative writing, fiction, thrillers, food, wine, politics and children’s books.
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Jess Phillips MP with Marcus Brigstocke

Read the Festival session reports at The Chiswick Calendar – Clive Myrie, the “undoubted star of the Festival”; 
Michael Frayn at 90;  Chris Tarrant; Jess Phillips with Marcus Brigstocke;  
Gavin Esler on Britain Is Better Than This; and Alan Titchmarsh and Rosie Fyles at Chiswick House.
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Download (or view as a slideshow) Roger Green’s photographs of our Local Authors Showcase,
and of Alan Titchmarsh, Clive Myrie and other speakers here.
The Local Authors Showcase at the George IV, Chiswick High Road


The Festival is a non-profit-making community event. Any financial surplus is donated to St Michael & All Angels Church, which runs the Festival, and three reading charities. Huge thanks to our venue, commercial and community Partners who are listed here.
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