Our Literary Festivals
At our literary festivals, you'll find a book fair with lots of fascinating stalls, including OxIA's own Bookstore, and many other authors, publishers and book-related exhibitors. There's also a full programme of workshops, panel discussions, author-led talks and other sessions, for readers and for published or aspiring writers. There'll be plenty of us from OxIA in these sessions, and lots of others too!
In 2025 we ran two mini local literary festivals, in Headington and in Wolvercote. Thank you to everyone that made both of these such great events. We hope to see you all again in 2026, when our festivals will be:
- in Wolvercote on Sunday 28th June as part of the Wolvercote & Wytham Mid-Summer Festival, and hosting the finale of the Wolvercote Short Story Competition 2026; and
- in Wallingford, later in the year – in September or October – updates here soon.
To register an interest in having a stand in the book fair at either or both of these events, please email LitFests@oxia.org.uk.
Confirmed stallholders can submit proposals for participation in the programme of workshops and talks, indicating where the proposer sees their contribution fitting into the programme.
You can get a flavour via this review of the 2025 HeadLitFest from Oxford Prospect Arts and through feedback from visitors, speakers and stall-holders.
OxIA Bookstore
At many other events, we take the OxIA Bookstore with us. You'll see our stand at craft fairs, Christmas markets, book fairs and similar events. On the bookstore we have books from all of the OxIA authors, and the stall will be staffed by some of us! If your favourite author is running it for that event, you can get your hands on a signed copy of their books, too.
Look out for our 2026 events soon!