The 14th Chiswick Book Festival will take place from Wednesday, September 7th to Wednesday 14th September 2022.
Once again, in venues across Chiswick, and in Ealing, west London’s leading literary event will bring together top authors and their readers for a week of history, poetry, biography, fiction, thrillers,gardens, food, wine, politics, creative writing, self-help and children’s books – all in aid of reading-related charities. Tickets will go on sale on this website in July 2022.
The Festival will open on Wednesday, September 7th with the Local Authors Party, which proved such a success in its new venue, the Boston Room at the George IV in Chiswick High Road
Our Chiswick House Gala Evening will take place as usual in the Garden Pavilion on Thursday September 8th. On Friday September 9th, it’s the Young People’s Poetry Prizegiving, followed by top authors speaking in St Michael & All Angels Church and ArtsEd’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre.
There will be many more events in venues across Chiswick on the main weekend, Saturday, September 10th and Sunday 11th, with Ealing Sessions on the 13th and 14th. To suggest an author, please email admin@chiswickbookfestival.net. And please follow the Festival, and share, on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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If you’d like to suggest speakers for this year, please email: admin@chiswickbookfestival.net.
To join our team of volunteers please email: Volunteers@chiswickbookfestival.net
Our Charities
The Festival is a non-profit-making, community event, which has raised over £109,000 for reading charities and St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park which has hosted and run the Festival for the past 13 years. You can read more about our 2021 charities below. We’ve just donated £1,500 to each of them from the 2021 Festival – see the report on The Chiswick Calendar.
- Doorstep Library, which brings the magic of books and reading into children’s homes in deprived parts of London
- InterAct Stroke Support, which provides actors to read to stroke patients
- The Felix Project, which supplies schools and charities with fruit and vegetables that would otherwise go to waste.
We are now considering other reading-related charities which would benefit from partnering with us.