Norwich Book Festival (NBF) is a new festival that took place in Norwich, City of Stories, for the first time in October 2024. NBF will return 24-31 October 2025, with eight days of brilliant events.
This city-wide festival brings together readers, writers, bookshops, literary organisations, and other key Norwich institutions to celebrate stories of all kinds.
Norwich Book Festival is designed to be for every kind of reader, and brings nationally renowned authors to England's first UNESCO City of Literature for fantastic events, readings, signings, interactive experiences and much more. The Festival highlights Norwich’s literary heritage, and contributes to the city's thriving culture of reading and writing.
In 2024, Norwich Book Festival welcomed 22,000 visitors across four days, to six venues in Norwich city centre. For 2025 we will be building upon the successes of 2024, and expanding the Festival to take place over eight days.
Norwich Book Festival is presented by The Forum, alongside key partners National Centre for Writing, Norfolk County Council – Library and Information Service and University of East Anglia. The Forum is a landmark cultural organisation in the centre of Norwich, which presents Norwich Science Festival, Norwich Games Festival, and coordinates Norfolk Heritage Open Days. The Forum is also home to one of the country's busiest libraries - Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library.
If you're interested in finding out more about Norwich Book Festival, or supporting NBF as a partner or sponsor, please email us [email protected]
Thanks to our partners.
Key Partners
National Centre for Writing
Norfolk County Council - Library & Information Service
The Forum
University of East Anglia
Bookshops
Bookbugs & Dragon Tales
Jarrolds
The Book Hive
Tombland Books
Waterstones
Supporters
First Bus East
Norwich Business Improvement District (BID)
Norwich School
Norwich Theatre
St Peter Mancroft
