celebrating nature, the arts and our unique landscape
Thank you to everyone who joined us and made Friday – Sunday 2 – 4 October at Wells Maltings such a fascinating, inspiring and enjoyable weekend.
All our 2026 contributors are listed below. Please follow the links to their bios:
Alastair Fothergill, Andrew Bloomfield, Charles Rangeley-Wilson, David Profumo, David Sear, Fred Ingrams, Geoff Dyer, James Cockburn, John Andrews, Jon Cook, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Luke Jennings, Maggi Hambling CBE, Mark Cocker, Matthew Hollis, Nicholas Crane, Nick Acheson, Paddy Sutton, Patrick Barkham, Stephen and Catherine Temple, Steven Quincey-Jones and Zohra Nabi
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Lit & Land 2026: giants of geography
We’ve been pulling together the biographies of our writers, artists and conservationists and spotted something glaringly obvious that had passed us by. Among these modest contributors are a number of outstanding geographers: • a former President of the Royal Geographical Society• an RGS Fellow specialising in rivers, islands, a drowned Suffolk town and the mysteries…
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Geoff Dyer: you are about to be warned
Nothing is quite what you expect – not even the unexpected: how the only son of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker from the Midlands, who went to Grammar School then Oxford then moved around a lot and wrote a lot of books became ‘quite possibly the best living writer in Britain’ (Daily Telegraph)…
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Nicholas Crane: A Journey Through Britain’s Footpaths
Nicholas Crane writer, explorer, geographer and presenter of TV series such as Great British Journeys and Coast will be joining us at Literature & Landscape on Saturday 3 October to talk about his latest book: The Path More Travelled. Nothing connects us to the British landscape more than the 140,000 miles of footpaths that criss-cross…
Bookings are open now via links from our Events 2026 page or through Wells Maltings‘ October events pages or directly from their box office between 10am and 4pm daily in person or over the phone on 01328 710885
Many thanks to our generous sponsors and partners who put their faith in the festival. Without them the weekend would not have been possible:
What a great line up! Unfortunately, I wound be able to make it this year but will attend again in 2027.