Words in Watchet 2027

Friday 19th - Sunday 21st February 2027

Competitions now open

If you can't get to the British Museum, David Musgrove HistoryExtra presents The Story of the Bayeaux Tapestry.

Friday night Storytelling, now an established festival favourite, we bring you Lucy Lill and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson telling The Queen of Between, a story of the many-shaped and multi-tasking goddess, Hecate.

Enjoy a plethora of award winning and Sunday Times best selling authors including: Kate Lord Brown, Meg Clothier, Tom Cox, Philip Gross, Wyl Menmuir.

For non-fiction aficionados the weekend offers: Charles Dowding of ‘No Dig’ gardening fame, Graham Harvey of 'The Archers' Matthew Myerscough fossil hunter, Michael Turner expert on Sir Francis Drake.

Plenty of 'Who dunnits' with Stephanie Austin, Chris Ewan, Tina Orr Munro, Lionel Ward or solve your own crime with Jo Middleton.

Our Saturday evening Spoken Word event mixes multi-instrumentalist Seb Tesouro putting music to poems of the Quantocks with prose from Aidan Meighan and Watchet’s own storyteller Deanna Payne. 

Graeme Ryan curates an exciting weekend of poetry at Xanadu

Workshops for budding writers including 'Writing Nature' with Elizabeth Delo and poetry with Jan Martin.

AND MORE...

Competitions open now.

It’s all happening in Watchet, a not-so-sleepy little harbour town on the West Somerset coast. 

If you would like to join us as a volunteer for Words in Watchet 2027, contact us on festival@wordsinwatchet.com